July 21, 2010

E-mini ES Futures Contract Specifications; tick value, margin requirements, round term commissions

Symbol: ES (CME)
Tick Value: .25
Cost/Tick: $12.50 usd
Margin: $500 usd/contract

Benefits: Lots of liquidity, predictable patterns for position traders
Drawbacks: lots of volume, slow and sluggish, lots of “backfill”

Best Time to Trade: 930am – 1230am EST
Favorite Pattern: Failures, Strength, Traps & Pullbacks

Favorite Timeframes: 2000-tick, 6500-volume, 5-minute

The E-mini ES is often considered to be the most widely traded market in the world, and its often the first market that new day traders learn.

Our simple patters work exceptionally well on any timeframe when trading the e-mini ES.

Click here for E-mini ES Futures Contract Specifications on the Exchange Website

Hi JJ,

Do you have any recommendation for DAX futures?

Mavrik - February 5, 2014 Reply

Hi Mauro, thanks for watching!

What type of information are you looking for?

FDAX is a fantastic market, traded on the EUREX.

$25 EUR per point, and it usually requires about $2500 in day margin to trade it.

Hope it helps, call me in the office for more info, or join our free trial!
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I was looking for favourite patterns (patterns that work best on DAX), best time to trade, like it's on the post for ES, but for FDAX.

Also, since FDAX doesn't have "overnight" per si, would it make sense to consider "overnight" the hours after DAX Cash closing hours (16h30-21h GMT)

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