They Shrank the Futures Contracts! Mini Futures Contracts: What They Are and How to Use Them

Fabio Mattos

No 413283, Cornhusker Economics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: Mini futures contracts (or e-mini, since they are traded electronically) were first developed in the late 1990s based on futures contracts that already existed. The main characteristic of mini contracts is that they represent a fraction of standard-size contracts. For example, the first mini contract was launched in 1997 and based on the S&P500 futures contract. The size of the standard futures contract is $250 times the value of the S&P500 index, while the size of the mini futures contract is $50 times the value of the S&P500 index. If the index is at 4,200 points, the total value of the standard contract is $1,050,000 and the total value of the mini contract is $210,000, i.e., the mini contract, in this case, corresponds to 1/5 of the size of the standard contract.

Keywords: Financial; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.413283

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