Trade at the spot price
Enter your position at the current spot market price, providing alignment with the cash market.
Make your capital go further
Use smaller contracts and lower margin to enter markets, making trading more accessible with less upfront capital.
Strategize for the long-term (and short)
Eliminate monthly or quarterly rolls. The annual expiry can give you the flexibility to trade intraday or longer term, up to a year.
Explore our Spot-Quoted futures products
Access a more straightforward way to trade small-sized products across U.S. indices and cryptocurrencies.
Quotes are delayed by at least 10 minutes.
Spot-Quoted futures fundamentals with Craig
Craig Bewick, Sr. Director, Retail Education, explains the key features of Spot-Quoted futures, how they differ from Micro- and full-sized contracts, and easy-to-understand trading examples.
Spot-Quoted futures pricing calculator
Spot-Quoted futures trade at the current spot price of the underlying index or cryptocurrency with a financing adjustment included at the end of the day to account for the economics of a futures contract.
The QuikStrike SQF pricing calculator helps you understand how the total financing adjustment affects your position and breaks down the financing component to allow you to confidently trade Spot-Quoted futures.
This tool is based on historical data. A trade date will be added to the tool once the financing adjustment for that day has been calculated, typically around 4:00 p.m. CT.
Spot-Quoted futures product data
View historical data on key components of Spot-Quoted futures.
Spot-Quoted Cryptocurrency marker
View the CME CF daily crypto marker used to calculate the total financing adjustment for QBTC and QETH. View the methodology.
Courses to build your knowledge
Learn more about Spot-Quoted futures
Understand how Spot-Quoted futures work, including how these contracts are priced and how they compare with other futures.
