S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes. Because of their smaller size, Micro E-mini futures enable sophisticated retail investors to trade futures for a fraction of the upfront ...

The margin minimum for futures contracts determines how much you'll need in your account to begin trading specific contracts. For example, the minimum margin to trade the E-mini S&P 500 Index ...

such as S&P 500 futures. And the reasons are plenty: they’re the cheapest to trade, they’re capital-efficient, they have trading flexibility (they can be traded after-hours), and they’re the ...

S&P 500 futures are up 0.3% ... the seasonal tendency for U.S. stocks to rise over the last five trading days of a calendar year and the first two trading days of the new year.

To clarify, a futures contract does indeed call for delivery and can “be delivered.” However, 99.9 percent of the time that does not occur. If an investor, for example, sells an E-mini S&P 500 ...

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