Our E-mini Nasdaq-100 products give you one of the most cost-effective ways to gain market exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index, a broad-based, modified capitalization-weighted index that tracks 100 large-cap companies that span major industry groups. Enjoy the liquidity and flexibility to react to global events as they unfold around the clock.
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Features and benefits
Leading liquidity
Deep liquidity & tight bid-ask spreads can reduce your costs.
Manage exposure
These contracts are part of a marketplace where you can manage global equity exposure.
Flexibility
Flexible execution gives you multiple ways to find liquidity.
Margin savings
Save on margin offsets with other equity index futures.
Safety and security
Central clearing helps mitigate your counterparty risk.
Futures leverage
Use leverage to trade a large contract value with a small amount.
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PRODUCTS
E-mini Nasdaq-100 Weekly options
Expand your choices to manage uncertainty around market-moving events and fine-tune your trading strategies with E-mini Nasdaq-100 Weekly options.
Compare E-mini Nasdaq-100 with other trading methods
NQ futures give you an easier faster, more flexible way to harness Nasdaq-100 performance.
- Trade and track one NQ futures contract versus 100 stocks to achieve nearly identical exposure
- Easily sell short with NQ futures — no uptick rule or special requirements
- Nearly 24-hour access means your hands aren’t tied when off-hour news and overseas events occur
- Spread trading versus another sector takes less time, less capital and is more efficient
- Significantly more buying power with your capital than cash securities – futures require a relatively small payment to control a large contract value
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures can serve as a cost-efficient proxy for trading Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet (Google), collectively known as the FANG stocks, individually.
- NQ offers $239B average daily volume compared to $11B for Apple, $8B for Meta, $5B for Google and $3B Netflix
- 60/40 tax treatment on short-term trading gains available for futures, but not stocks
- FANG stocks require approximately 12 times the capital needed to hold the same notional value as futures
In nearly every trading scenario, NQ futures offer a more cost-efficient way to manage Nasdaq-100 exposure compared to ETFs.
- Pay no management fee when you trade NQ futures versus Nasdaq-100 ETFs.
- Nearly 24-hour access - no waiting for the ETF market open when market events (Brexit, U.S. elections) happen post-close
- NQ futures offer 13.7x the daily liquidity compared to the value of all Nasdaq-100 ETFs combined, including QQQ
- Diversify your risk versus other holdings in your portfolio
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Courses
Take self-guided courses on E-mini Nasdaq-100 products.
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About E-mini Nasdaq-100
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ) offer liquid benchmark contracts to manage exposure to the 100 leading non-financial U.S. large-cap companies that make up the Nasdaq-100. The E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contract is $20 x the Nasdaq-100 index and has a minimum tick of 0.25 index points. Delayed data for E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures displayed in the table below includes for the open, high and low prices and volume for the active contracts.
