CME Single Stock Futures: now live, what traders need to know
Updated 2026-09-10. CME Group's Single Stock Futures launched on schedule on July 27, 2026. This page originally covered the pre-launch announcement; it's now updated with what's confirmed post-launch. The original announcement timeline is kept below, dated, for reference.
CME Group's Single Stock Futures are trading now, having launched July 27, 2026 as announced. The lineup: 55 standard-sized contracts and 22 Micro-sized contracts, spanning more than 50 top U.S. stocks. It's CME's first push into individual-equity futures at this scale, and it opened a lever futures traders hadn't had before.
What a Single Stock Futures contract is
An index future like the E-mini S&P 500 gives you leveraged exposure to a whole basket of stocks moving together. A Single Stock Futures contract narrows that down to one company. Same futures mechanics, margin and leverage included, pointed at a single name instead of an index. If you have a strong view on one stock specifically, not the market broadly, this is the tool CME added for that.
CME's own site names underlyings including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Tesla, Micron, and SpaceX. CME's contract lineup covers more than 50 stocks across the 55 standard and 22 Micro contracts; we have not independently confirmed the complete roster beyond the names CME itself has publicized.
Confirmed contract terms
These figures are drawn from CME Group's own site and its own release, checked 2026-09-10:
- Contract size: a standard Single Stock Future represents 100 shares of the underlying stock; a Micro contract represents 10 shares.
- Settlement: cash-settled, with final settlement based on the underlying stock's official closing price at expiration, not physical delivery of shares.
- Trading hours: CME lists these on Globex, trading Sunday evening through Friday afternoon with a one-hour daily maintenance break. CME and financial press have described this as near-continuous, around-the-clock trading during the week.
- Expirations: quarterly, the standard CME cycle of March, June, September, and December.
What we could not verify: exact symbol/ticker codes for individual contracts, specific margin requirements, and which data vendors carry Single Stock Futures data by default versus as a paid add-on. CME publishes a "where to trade" page listing brokers and FCMs that have told CME they support the product, but CME itself notes that list isn't exhaustive, and we have not independently confirmed which of those brokers Autoview connects to already support Single Stock Futures specifically. If you're looking for an exact ticker or a margin table, check CME's own contract specs pages directly rather than relying on this page for that level of detail.
How automation fits in
Autoview connects an alert to a broker and executes the order the alert describes. The alert can come from TradingView, a script, or anything else able to send a webhook; TradingView is one alert source among many, not the definition of the platform. For CME futures generally, Autoview already runs live through Tradovate: connect an account, and alerts place Tradovate orders without you sitting at a screen watching for a level. The Tradovate setup guide covers the actual connection steps.
What's unverified: we have not found published confirmation from CME, from Tradovate, or anywhere in Autoview's own codebase that Single Stock Futures specifically trade through the Tradovate connection today, or through any other broker Autoview supports. The general pipeline, an alert defines the order and the broker connection carries it through, doesn't change because the underlying is a new contract type, but that's a statement about how Autoview's architecture works in general, not a confirmation that any specific broker has turned on Single Stock Futures support for Autoview users. If you plan to trade these contracts through Autoview, confirm with your broker directly that your account and connection support the specific Single Stock Futures symbol first.
One general mechanic worth knowing if you already trade CME products through Tradovate: Tradovate charges for real-time CME market data on funded live accounts, and Simulation accounts don't carry that feed by default. That isn't specific to Single Stock Futures. It's how Tradovate's CME data access works, and it's worth understanding before trading any CME product through that connection.
What to do now
If you already automate Tradovate through Autoview, your setup doesn't change to add Single Stock Futures, once you've confirmed with Tradovate that your account and data subscription cover the specific contract you want. If you're new to Tradovate, the Tradovate setup wizard is where that starts. For the exact contract specs, symbol codes, and current broker list, CME's own site is the source of record; this page will not out-race CME's own updates on those specifics.
Original announcement (dated 2026-07-19, kept for reference)
The section below is the original pre-launch coverage of CME's June 30, 2026 announcement, kept as a historical record of what CME said before the July 27 launch.
CME Group announced on June 30, 2026, via a release syndicated through PR Newswire and corroborated by CME's investor relations page and multiple financial outlets, that it would launch Single Stock Futures on July 27, 2026, pending completion of its own regulatory review process. The announcement set the date and the contract counts, 55 larger-sized and 22 Micro-sized contracts across more than 50 stocks, but did not set the symbol format, margin requirements, or day-one broker and data-vendor support. Those details were left for CME to publish closer to launch, which is what happened.