CME Group is offering single stock futures on more than 50 US names. The instruments are expected to launch this summer.
Alphabet, Meta, NVIDIA and Tesla are among the names included in the programme.
These are the first single stock futures options on a US exchange. In Europe, Eurex offers single stock futures on shares of 114 US companies including Amazon and Alphabet. In January, average daily volumes on all S&P 500 component futures were 47,505 – down 98.92% year-on-year (YoY) and 97.56% month-on-month (MoM). Contracts traded were down 97.03% MoM and 88.28% YoY to 150.
Total open interest on the futures in January was €36.6 million – up 8.37% MoM, but down 62.88% YoY.
Despite the low open interest reported by Eurex, CME Group believes that interest in equity derivatives is rising across institutional and retail clients. In 2025, it says, average daily volumes for futures was six million contracts – up 15% YoY. Average open interest reached 5.6 million contracts, a 19% YoY increase.
Last year, CME Group partnered with Robinhood to offer its index futures products to retail investors.
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Tim McCourt, global head of equities, FX and alternative products, commented, “These contracts will provide a simpler, more cost-effective way to take a view on a stock, while allowing market participants to gain exposure to, or hedge potential price movements, without buying shares outright.”
