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Real-Time E-Mini Futures

BigTrends now offers E-Mini Futures!

If you have an E-mini subscription, just type in "ES/1.F" or "NQ/1.F" to get a chart for the nearest expiring month for the Nasdaq 100 or S & P 500 E-mini. More information on symbology is below the screenshot.

  1. To find the nearest expiring month of a future in BigTrends Charts, the format is:
    SR/1.F where SR/ = Symbol Root
  2. To find a quote or chart for the contract month you are interested in, the format is:
    SR/my.F where SR/ = Symbol Root, m=Month, y=Year and .F indicates a Futures instrument. See some examples

If you are using an older version of BigTrends (4.2 or older), substitute the character '_' for '/' as these versions of BigTrends Charts don't allow the forward slash character in symbols. For example, in version 4.2 of the BigTrends Charts client software the latest expiring contract for the S & P 500 would be ES_1.F instead of ES/1.F.

With any version of the client software you can now prefix a symbol for an intraday chart with the '^' character to ignore trading before 9:30 AM and after 4:15 PM to provide market hours only charts.

Table of Symbol Roots

 

Symbol Root

Name

ES/

E-Mini S&P 500

NQ/

E-Mini Nasdaq 100

NP/

E-mini Nasdaq Composite

RI/

E-mini Russell 2000

MF/

E-mini S&P MidCap 400

HS/

E-mini S&P SmallCap 600

PV/

E-mini MSCI EAFE ®

GW/

End of-month Options on E-mini S&P 500

BIO/

E-mini NASDAQ Biotechnology

EX/

E-mini Euro FX

JX/

E-mini Japanese Yen

E5B/

Eurodollar 5-Year E-Mini Bundle

SPF/

E-mini S&P Asia 50®

FTX/

E-mini FTSE/Xinhua China 25

Table of Expiration Months

 
FJanuary
GFebruary
HMarch
JApril
KMay
MJune
NJuly
QAugust
USeptember
VOctober
XNovember
ZDecember

Table of Expiration Years

 
SymbolYear
72007
82008
92009
102010
112011
122012
132013
142014
152015

Some Examples:

 
Symbol	Name
ES/1.F	E-Mini S&P 500 nearest expiring month
^ES/1.F E-Mini S&P 500 nearest nearest expiring month, excludes trading after market hours
ES/M8.F	E-Mini S&P 500 2008-Jun
ES/H9.F	E-Mini S&P 500 2009-Mar
NQ/1.F	E-Mini Nasdaq 100 nearest expiring month
NQ/M8.F	E-Mini Nasdaq 100 2008-Jun
NQ/H9.F	E-Mini Nasdaq 100 2009-Mar
NP/1.F	E-Mini Nasdaq Composite nearest expiring month
NP/M8.F	E-Mini Nasdaq Composite 2008-Jun
NP/H9.F	E-Mini Nasdaq Composite 2009-Mar
RI/1.F	E-Mini Russell 2000 nearest expiring month
RI/M8.F	E-Mini Russell 2000 2008-Jun
RI/H9.F	E-Mini Russell 2000 2009-Mar
MF/1.F	E-Mini S&P MidCap 400 nearest expiring month
MF/M8.F	E-Mini S&P MidCap 400 2008-Jun
MF/H9.F	E-Mini S&P MidCap 400 2009-Mar
HS/1.F	E-Mini S&P SmallCap 600 nearest expiring month
HS/M8.F	E-Mini S&P SmallCap 600 2008-Jun
HS/H9.F	E-Mini S&P SmallCap 600 2009-Mar
EX/1.F  E-mini Euro FX nearest expiring month
EX/M8.F	E-Mini Euro FX 2008-Jun
EX/H9.F	E-Mini Euro FX 2009-Mar