{"id":17729,"date":"2022-05-11T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/?p=17729"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:33:08","slug":"fine-tune-your-risk-tap-into-the-precision-of-a-smaller-sized-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/fine-tune-your-risk-tap-into-the-precision-of-a-smaller-sized-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine-Tune Your Risk: Tap into the Precision of a Smaller-Sized Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fine-Tune Your Risk: Tap into the Precision of a Smaller-Sized Contract<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker<\/em><\/p>\n

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At a fraction of one full-sized contract, Mini and Micro futures provide flexible leverage as an alternative to large contracts.\u00a0Among the available fractional futures contracts, by far the most well-known and most liquid are the E-mini stock index futures: E-mini S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq, E-mini Russell 2000 and Mini Dow Jones.\u00a0With the introduction back in May \u201919 of the Micro E-mini futures, there are fractional versions of the E-minis.<\/p>\n

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But stock index futures are not the only ones with fractional contracts.\u00a0Almost every commodity sector offers futures contracts that are fractional versions of their classic full-sized contracts.\u00a0They all offer opportunities to trade markets with more precise leverage and reduced margins.<\/p>\n

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In the energy sector, there are E-mini natural gas futures contracts at 1\/4 the size of full-sized contract (1 million British Thermal Units).\u00a0A one-cent move for the E-mini natural gas futures contract is equal to $25.<\/p>\n

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In crude oil, whose full-sized, 1,000 barrel contract is the largest energy futures contract in the world by volume, there are both E-mini crude oil (1\/2 the size) and Micro crude oil (1\/10 the size).<\/p>\n

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Mini contracts are offered in corn, wheat and soybeans.\u00a0All are 1\/5 the size, so a 1-cent move in each contract is equal to $10.00 compared to a 1-cent move\/$50 for their mighty forerunners.<\/p>\n

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In metals, the renowned COMEX 100-ounce gold futures contract can be traded fractionally with a 50-ounce Mini gold and a 10-ounce Micro gold.<\/p>\n

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Both silver and copper offer Mini contracts that are 1\/2 the leverage of their respective 5,000-ounce and 25,000-pound full-sized relatives.<\/p>\n

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There are Micro futures contracts with 1\/10 the leverage of their full-sized bellwether currency futures for all of those listed below:<\/p>\n

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A word of caution: many of these contracts\u2019 liquidity is concentrated in their respective front months \u2013 often right up to their Last Trading Day.\u00a0Take care to check a contract\u2019s volume\/open interest before trading.<\/p>\n

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Contact your Cannon Trading broker<\/a> for additional information on any of these futures contracts, including price quotation, trading hours, minimum price fluctuation, symbol code, settlement method (cash or physical), risk considerations, etc.<\/p>\n

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At a fraction of one full-sized contract, Mini and Micro futures provide flexible leverage as an alternative to large contracts.\u00a0Among the available fractional futures contracts, by far the most well-known and most liquid are the E-mini stock index futures: E-mini S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq, E-mini Russell 2000 and Mini Dow Jones.\u00a0With the introduction back in May \u201919 of the Micro E-mini futures, there are fractional versions of the E-minis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,231,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-trading-news","category-commodity-brokers-2","category-futures-trading-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17732,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions\/17732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cannontrading.com\/tools\/support-resistance-levels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}