Allowed products and trading times

New: Intraweek overnight trading for Qualifying & Funded Sessions*

If allowed, during normal electronic trading hours, the positions will remain open (only for US instruments with a regular close at 3:59:00 PM Central Time or 15:59 Chicago time) and will be carried over overnight during weekdays (Monday to Friday). Overnight trading between weekends (Friday to Monday) is prohibited.

The result of overnight trade will be counted as result for 1 day, so please consider this with Consistency Target rule.

If not allowed, during normal electronic trading hours, the positions will be closed automatically at 3:59:00 PM Central Time (15:59 Chicago time) or positions must be closed according to their regular schedule.

Positions will not be allowed for intraweek overnight if:

- Decision of the Risk Management Team. In this case the positions will be closed automatically at the end of current session.
- Non-regular trading schedule such as holidays, market halt, etc.
- Positions on instruments which do not have the regular close at  3:59:00 PM Central Time (15:59 Chicago time), such as EUREX and Agricultural Futures.

New: Automatic closure of positions*

Now positions are automatically closed at the end of the trading session (exceptions are indicated below) without breaking the rules at all stages of the evaluation program, including the Funded session.

US Futures:

Positions are automatically closed without breaking the rules before the end of the regular trading session.

*Exceptions for US Futures:  
1. Positions on instruments 'GF', HE', 'LE', 'ZC', 'ZW', 'ZS', 'ZM', 'ZL' must be closed by the trader independently, in accordance with the trading schedule of the indicated instruments 10 minutes before the end of their trading session.
2. During the holiday trading schedule, positions on all available instruments must be closed by the trader in accordance with the holiday day schedule.

EUREX Futures:
Positions are automatically closed without breaking the rules before the end of the regular trading session.

Trading schedule

All positions must be closed prior to 3:59:00 PM Central Time (15:59 Chicago time). 

You can then restart trading at 5:00:00 PM CT/CST (17:00 Chicago time).

In order to find out the current time in Chicago, select the ES ticker in any of the VolFix windows.

All EUREX (available EU only) positions must be closed prior to 21:59:00 CET/CEST (Central European Time). 

You can then restart trading at 01:15:00 CET/CEST of the next day.

All tickers on EUREX (available EU only) are traded according to Central European Time (CET / CEST).

Please note that trading hours are subject to change during the holidays.

An asterisk (*) indicates a product with an earlier close than 3:59:00 PM CT/CST(15:59:00 Chicago time) and/or a later open than 5:00:00 PM CT/CST (17:00:00 Chicago time). If the product you are trading has an asterisk please refer to the CME site and follow the times listed there. The links are provided below. Positions for these products must be closed 10 minutes before the end of their trading session.

All traders must only trade the “front” (most liquid/highest volume) contract month for all products. Overnight trading is permitted, although positions must be closed prior to a product’s electronic market close or 3:59 PM CT/CST (15:59 Chicago time) (whichever comes first).

Only for the Funded session traders: current trade restrictions

CME Equity Futures

• E-mini S&P 500 (ES)
• Micro E-mini S&P 500 (MES) (1 MES contract = 0.1 ES contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than ES)
• Nikkei NKD (NKD)
• E-mini NASDAQ 100 (NQ)
• Micro E-mini NASDAQ 100 (MNQ) (1 MNQ contract = 0.1 NQ contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than NQ)
• E-mini Russell 2000 (RTY)
• Micro E-mini Russell 2000 (M2K) (1 M2K contract = 0.1 RTY contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than RTY)

CME Foreign Exchange Futures

• Australian $ (6A)
• British Pound (6B)
• Canadian $ (6C)
• Euro FX (6E)
• E-mini Euro FX (E7)
• Micro Australian $ (M6A) (1 M6A contract = 0.1 6A contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than 6A)
• Micro Euro FX (M6E) (1 M6E contract = 0.1 6E contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than 6E)
• Japanese Yen (6J)
• Swiss Franc (6S)
• New Zealand Dollar (6N)
• Mexican Peso (6M)

Additional Instruments

• Micro Bitcoin (MBT)
• Micro Ether (MET)

CME NYMEX Futures

• Crude Oil (CL)
• Micro Crude Oil (MCL) (1 MCL contract = 0.1 CL contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than CL)
• E-mini Crude Oil (QM)
• Natural Gas (NG)
• Micro Natural Gas (MNG) (1 MNG contract = 0.2 NG contract. Max positions size is 5x times more than NG)
• E-mini Natural Gas (QG)
• Heating Oil (HO)
• RBOB Gasoline (RB)

CME Agricultural Futures

• Lean Hogs (HE)*
• Live Cattle (LE)*

CME CBOT Agricultural Futures

• Feeder Cattle (GF)*
• Corn (ZC)*
• Wheat (ZW)*
• Soybeans (ZS)*
• Soybean Meal (ZM)*
• Soybean Oil (ZL)*

CME CBOT Equity Futures

• Mini-DOW (YM)
• Micro Mini-DOW (MYM) (1 MYM contract = 0.1 YM contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than YM)

CME CBOT Financial/Interest Rate Futures

• 2-Year Note (ZT)
• 5-Year Note (ZF)
• 10-Year Note (ZN)
• Ultra-Note (TN)
• 30-Year Bond (ZB)
• Ultra-Bond (UB)

CME COMEX Futures

• Gold (GC)
• E-micro Gold (MGC) (1 MGC contract = 0.1 GC contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than GC)
• Silver (SI)
• E-micro Silver (SIL) (1 SIL contract = 0.2 SI contract. Max positions size is 5x times more than SI)
• Copper (HG)
• Micro Copper (MHG) (1 MHG contract = 0.1 HG contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than HG)
• Platinum (PL)

EUREX Futures (only for EU traders)

• Micro-DAX (FDXS)* (1 FDXS contract = 0.1 FDXM contract. Max positions size is 10x times more than FDXM)
• Mini-DAX (FDXM)*
• DAX (FDAX)*
• EURO STOXX 50 (FESX)*
• STOXX Europe 600 (FXXP)*
• Euro Bund (10yr) (FGBL)*
• Euro-Bobl (FGBM)*
• Euro-Schatz (FGBS)*

* For instruments marked *, the opening and closing time of a trading session differs from the normal times, please follow the link of the instrument you are interested in to familiarize yourself with its opening times