Can you name me some "small" futures contracts? Say < $10,000 per contract

I'm looking for futures contracts that are relatively small yet reasonably liquid. Say less than $10,000 worth per contract. The smaller the better.

I know only one, mini-sized corn at CME. Each contract is currently around $5,000.

Can you name me any other small contracts like that, at this or other exchanges in the US and elsewhere?

 

I don't know anything about them but there are micro currency contracts, tick value is around $1

 

try one of those bucketshop CFD places. Hope fully you are not a US resident

 

Are we talking about margin or notional value?

There are lots of liquid small contracts that can be used for swing trading. I wouldn't use them for intraday trading unless I was trading QM or something.

 

Sugar (SB) is about $20,000. Contract size is 112,000 lbs. That's the smallest that I can think of for a full size contract. Most of them (physical commodities) are in the neighborhood of $40,000 to $100,000 notional.

There are minis on the grains and I believe in CL, NG, SI and GC. They won't be very liquid compared to the full size contracts, but for swing and position trading they might be fine.

 

Try the micro e-currencies contracts, the Euro E-micro contract (M6E) for example is worth 12,500 euros and is liquid enough.

You can also trade the Forex market, plenty of liquidity and you can start with the micro lots, they are worth $1,000 (1,000 units of whatever the base currency is to be exact). Some Forex brokers (including FXCM) will let you open a micro account online with only $50.

 

Unless you have reasons not to ever use leverage or hold until zero, what is the purpose of looking for such contracts? They are usually very illiquid.

 

Some of these micro futures contracts are liquid enough.

I believe the original poster is looking for contracts with very low margin requirements. If that's the case trading the very liquid Forex micro lots is the ideal solution.

 

Yes, probably trading spot forex makes more sense.

 

I'm the OP.

You're right, I'm looking for very low margin requirement per contract. That usually also means a lower value per contract so that's what I asked for.

Some of you mentioned some forex products.

Can any of them be traded through Interactive Brokers on regular exchanges? I only trust brokers who do nothing but route my orders to actual reputable exchanges. IB is the best I know about.

I heard that the rest of them (market makers?) are more likely to be scams that steal your money whenever they can. Correct me if I'm wrong.