Stock futures trading and security futures trading

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Security Futures Overview

Single Stock Futures (SSF)
Stock Futures are futures contracts on individual stocks or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). OneChicago lists futures on more than 450 well-known stocks such as IBM, Qualcomm and Microsoft.

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In late 2000, the U.S. Congress passed legislation lifting the ban on these products, which were already trading in Europe and elsewhere. These products are now trading in the U.S. and represent an important new tool for professional traders. Security futures enable money managers, proprietary trading operations and other investors to efficiently execute a variety of trading strategies for U.S. listed equities.

A single stock futures contract is an agreement for delivery of shares of the underlying security or ETF at a designated date in the future, called the expiration date. The standard size of a OneChicago single stock futures contract is 100 shares of the underlying stock.

When a security future is traded, both the buyer and seller put up a good faith deposit called margin. Margin requirements are generally 20% of the cash value
of contract, although this requirement may be lower if the investor also holds certain offsetting positions in cash equities, stock options or other security futures in the same securities account.

Narrow based index futures
Narrow based index futures are futures contracts on narrow based equity indexes (small groups of stocks). OneChicago lists a variety of "boutique" security indexes based on demand from large institutional customers called OneChicago Select Indexes. Each Select Index typically contains up to nine individual stocks and
are cash settled. Select Indexes do not have an LMM assigned to them to make
two-sided markets. At certain periods there may not be a bid and/or ask

ETF futures
ETF futures are futures contracts on Exchange Traded Funds. They have similar characteristics to single stock futures, although the underlying security is the fund itself rather than common stock in a specific company. Thus at expiration, the deliverable assets are shares in the underlying ETF.

Single Stock Futures Learning Center

Product Benefits

Single Stock Futures List

Narrow-Based Index List

ETF Futures List

Security Futures Pricing

Managing Expiration Dates

Margin Requirements

Settlements and Deliveries

Contract Specifications

Trading Strategies

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