TradeStation Opens Retail Access to CME Single-Stock Futures on 50+ Names

TradeStation retail customers now have access to a suite of CME futures contracts on individual U.S. stocks, including both standard-sized and micro-sized contracts across more than 50 leading U.S. stocks.

The broker joins Schwab, NinjaTrader, EdgeClear, Optimus Futures and Plus500 in offering access to the single-stock futures launched by CME on July 27.

Single-stock futures allow traders to take long or short positions in CME-cleared contracts without owning or borrowing the underlying shares.

Initially, TradeStation offers 55 standard and 22 micro single-stock futures across more than 50 U.S. stocks from the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 universe, including Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia, Tesla and SpaceX.

Standard contracts represent 100 shares per company, while micro contracts have a 10-share multiplier, lowering the entry barrier for retail investors.

"SSFs give active traders one more way to trade the names they're already watching," said John Bartleman, President and CEO of TradeStation Group, Inc.

The new contracts are available nearly 24 hours a day, Sunday through Friday. According to Bartleman, "paired with a margin-based, nearly around-the-clock structure, these new contracts provide another way for traders to explore new strategies."

The contracts provide margin-based long and short exposure, financial settlement and extended trading hours, giving clients futures-style access to individual equity names.

TradeStation has not disclosed a dedicated commission structure for the new contracts, with futures trading fees typically dependent on traded volume, exchange fees and regulatory charges.

The launch expands the set of equity-linked instruments available to TradeStation customers, leaving pricing and execution quality as key points of comparison with other brokers offering CME single-stock futures.