Single Stock Futures



Single Stock Futures

Single Stock Futures ("SSFs") are an alternative way to invest and trade equity products. SSFs are futures contracts on individual stocks, narrow based indexes or Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs"). A contract held through expiration converts into either ownership of the stock for a long position or delivery of the stock for a short position.

OneChicago lists futures on approximately 1,800 names of well known stocks, including all of the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and many of the most actively traded stocks in the Russell 2000 Index. OneChicago also has Single Stock Futures on over 70 ETFS.

Trading Single Stock Futures involves substaintial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.

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SSFs are used with a broad range of trading strategies and can be applied to a variety of portfolio management needs. Since the price of an equity future typically tracks the price of the underlying instrument nearly tick for tick, trading strategies used in the stock market today could be transferable to the SSFs.

  • A OneChicago SSF is a contract to buy or sell 100 shares of an underlying stock or Exchange Traded Fund at the expiration date.
  • SSFs have the cost of carry interest rate built into their price.
  • SSFs are physically deliverable contracts at expiration.
  • SSFs trading at OneChicago are fully electronic and all trades are cleared through the Options Clearing Corporation.

Security Futures Risk Disclosure Statement. An investor must read and understand this disclosure statement before investing.

View the "Understanding Single Stock Futures" tutorial from OneChicago.

Try the OneChicago Calculator

OneChicago has built a powerful comparison calculator that enables users to perform a side-by-side evaluation of costs for buying and selling stocks at varying margin terms vs. returns of equivalent SSF positions.

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TRADING FUTURES AND OPTIONS INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF LOSS AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL INVESTORS.  PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.