Eligibility
Separate futures agreement. Not available on every account type.
Online
$1.25 per contract
Book
Index, energy, metals, rates
Agreement
Separate from the brokerage form
Hours
Outside the cash equity session
Margin
Intraday and overnight rates will sit on this page when the book is live. $1.25 per contract online.
Hours
Futures print outside the cash equity session.
A different margin from stocks
Futures are index, energy, metals, and rates contracts for accounts that sign a futures agreement. They are not available on every account type, and they are not turned on by opening a brokerage account.
The online schedule is $1.25 per contract. Intraday and overnight margin will be published on the platform when that book is live. Until then a buying-power figure in the client center is illustrative. Futures also print outside the 09:30–16:00 equity session, so a flat stock chart does not mean the futures book is closed.
Before you treat a quote as a contract
- Contract size is not one share. Read the multiplier.
- Expiry is part of the position. A front month and the next month are different instruments.
- Mark-to-market can ask for cash during the day. That is the point of futures margin.
- Public quotes such as crude or gold are delayed samples, not a live futures ladder.
- Do not send funds to support a futures line until clearing is named.