TradeStation Opens Retail Access to CME Single-Stock Futures on 50+ Names

TradeStation has become the latest brokerage to give retail customers access to CME's single-stock futures, rolling out 55 standard-sized and 22 micro-sized contracts covering more than 50 large US equities. The offering covers names drawn from the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 universes, including Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta (META), Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX (SPCX).

The contracts give traders long or short exposure to individual US stocks through CME-cleared futures, without requiring them to own the underlying shares or borrow stock to take a bearish position. The instruments are margin-based and financially settled, and TradeStation says they are available nearly 24 hours a day from Sunday through Friday. Standard contracts represent 100 shares of a single company, while micro contracts carry a 10-share multiplier, lowering the capital threshold for retail participants and giving active traders finer control over position sizing.

Pricing Still Undisclosed

"SSFs give active traders one more way to trade the names they're already watching," said John Bartleman, President and CEO of TradeStation Group, Inc. He added that, combined with the margin-based, almost around-the-clock structure, the contracts offer traders another route to explore new strategies.

TradeStation joins a group of retail and futures platforms that have switched on access to CME's single-stock futures since the exchange launched the product line on July 27. That list includes Schwab, NinjaTrader, EdgeClear, Optimus Futures and Plus500.

For TradeStation's clients, the practical impact sits somewhere between a new asset class and an additional equity product: futures-style access to individual tickers, with extended hours, margin treatment and cash settlement. The open commercial question is cost. TradeStation has not published a dedicated commission schedule for the new contracts, and futures fees typically vary with traded volume and include exchange and regulatory charges. Pricing and execution quality therefore remain the metrics clients are likely to compare across the brokers already carrying CME's single-stock futures suite.