TradeStation Expands Futures Offering with CME Group Single Stock Futures

TradeStation Securities has added CME Group single stock futures (SSFs) to its product line-up, the brokerage said Thursday, broadening its futures menu with financially settled contracts tied to individual US equities.

The contracts let traders take long or short positions on single US stocks through CME-cleared futures without owning or borrowing the underlying shares. They are available in a standard size with a 100-share multiplier and a micro size with a 10-share multiplier, giving users flexibility in how much individual stock exposure they take on.

The initial rollout spans 55 standard-sized and 22 micro-sized contracts across more than 50 leading US stocks drawn from the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000, including Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia and Tesla. The contracts trade nearly around the clock, Sunday through Friday, on CME Globex.

Retail access to cleared equity futures

"SSFs give active traders one more way to trade the names they're already watching," said John Bartleman, president and chief executive of TradeStation Group. He added that the firm is pleased to be among the first retail broker-dealers to offer CME Group SSFs and to keep expanding access to innovative futures products.

Tim McCourt, global head of equities, FX and alternative products at CME Group, said wider access to the centrally cleared, financially settled contracts brings the capital efficiencies and near 24/7 availability of the futures market to leading US stocks.

TradeStation cautioned that, as with other futures products, single stock futures carry a high degree of risk and involve leverage.