There are many reason why Emini day trading has become so popular. John Carter and Hubert Senters often trade the Emini markets including the Mini Dow and Nasdaq. Check out some reason below to see why day traders choose to trade the emini contracts at the CBOT and CME.

What is Emini Day Trading?

The Eminis are electronically traded futures contracts on the CME and CBOT that are the mini version of a normal futures contracts. Having a smaller size makes Emini day trading possible for individual traders to trade the Emini contracts. Emini day trading means that you are trading one fifth the size of the full online futures trading contract. Therefore, every point movement on the Emini day trading contract is worth $50, instead of $250 on the online futures trading markets. Emini day trading contracts are available on many indexes including the Mini Dow, Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and Russell 2000.

Emini Day Trading Volume

The Emini futures S&P trades about 600,000 to 800,000 contracts per day. The emini futures Nasdaq trades over 300,000 contracts per day. This type of volume is a great market to trade. It creates more fluctuation in a market and therefore an ideal place of new and professional traders.

Emini Day Trading Spreads

Emini day trading spreads are about 0.25 points on the S&P e-mini futures. On the Emini Nasdaq(NQ) it's about 0.50 points. The e-mini Mini Dow is about in the 1 to 5 point range. This keeps the risk in trading down in the Emini day trading market.

Emini Day Trading Leverage

Even if a day trader only had $5,000 for his/her margin for only one of the emini day trading contracts, it provides the day trader a good amount of leverage on the emini day trading market.

Emini Day Trading Shorts

There is not reason for a Emini day trader not not go short in the Emini markets. There are no up-tick rules in the Emini day trading markets. Emini day traders can learn to take full advantage for going short in the emini markets.