Trade CME Group Futures with Interactive Brokers

CME Group Micro E-mini Options Contracts Available at IBKR for the Lowest Cost¹

Introducing Micro E-mini options on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 indices. Add the flexibility and limited downside risk of options in a smaller notional size that requires less margin and premium to trade.

These options settle into Micro E-mini futures, which are 1/10th the size of E-mini futures and offer the access to the same underlying market. The smaller size enables you to fine-tune your index exposure for greater control over the risk/reward ratio of your investment.

Key Features:

• Trade with more precision
  Scale S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 index exposure up or down with greater granularity from underlying contracts 1/10th the size of E-mini products. More precision can provide additional control over the risk/reward ratio of your trading strategies.
• Add versatility to strategy building
  Express long- or short-term views with a choice of quarterly, Friday weekly, and end-of-month expirations. Build market neutral, directional, and/or multi-leg strategies to seek new opportunities in the equity markets.
• Access Micro E-mini futures liquidity
  With a lower premium related to the contract size, these options settle into liquid Micro E-mini futures, which traded nearly 300 million contracts as of 2020.

CME Group Micro WTI Crude Oil Futures Contracts Available at IBKR for the Lowest Cost¹

At 1/10 the size of the benchmark WTI futures contract, Micro WTI Crude Oil futures offer active traders a more precise tool for managing crude oil exposure without sacrificing transparency.

• Precisely scale oil exposure
  Enjoy the same benefits as the benchmark WTI futures contract, in a smaller-sized, financially settled contract.
• Manage positions with more choice
  Choose the contract size that best suits your goals with the ability to manage positions between Micro WTI, E-mini WTI, or the standard WTI futures contracts listed on NYMEX.
• Gain price discovery and transparency
  Trade on a regulated exchange and enjoy the transparency of futures, where all traders see the same prices and quotes.
• Add capital efficiency
  Access the same 24-hour markets and robust transparency of larger WTI futures with smaller margin requirements.

CME Group Micro Treasury Yield Futures Contracts Available at IBKR the Lowest¹ Commissions

Cash-settled Micro Treasury Yield futures offer a streamlined way to trade interest rate markets with contracts based directly on yields of the most recently auctioned Treasury securities at four key tenor points on the curve.

• Traded in Yield
  Directly references the most widely followed US Treasury market metric – yields of recently auctioned Treasury securities.
• Four Major Tenors
  Trade across the yield curve with contracts on four key tenors: 2-Year Note, 5-Year Note, 10-Year Note, and 30-Year Bond.
• Simple, Cash-settled Design
  All four contracts are sized at $10 dollar per basis point of yield (0.01%), creating seamless curve spreading opportunities.
• Built on Leading BrokerTec Benchmarks
  Anchored by BrokerTec US Treasury benchmarks, sourced from transactions on the leading cash UST trading platform.