CME NASDAQ-100 Futures
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CME Expands Quarterly Month Listings of Equity Index Futures Products
Effective as of June 24, 2007. Read more here.

CME NASDAQ-100® futures offer pension and money managers, investment banks, corporations, and other institutional customers an efficient way to manage exposure to the NASDAQ 100 Index, a leading benchmark that tracks 100 of the largest (in market-capitalization terms) U.S and international non-financial companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market. CME has an exclusive license with Nasdaq to list derivatives products on this Index.

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Benefits

  • Fast, efficient way to gain broad exposure to the 100 large-cap domestic and international non-financial companies of the NASDAQ-100 Index with a single trade
  • Opportunity to hedge a portfolio with significant index exposure against adverse price moves
  • Potentially lower trading costs versus trading a basket of futures or Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • Open, fair and transparent markets
  • One of the most dominant markets for trading equity futures products, with a 92 percent market share of all U.S.-traded stock-index futures
  • Guarantee of counterparty credit and central clearing by CME Clearing

View resources for trading this product

  • CME Group to Update Price Limits, Harmonize Trading Hours
    Read the attached overview for details on changes to price limits and harmonization of trading hours for CME Group Equity products, effective in January 2008.
  • Rule Change for Trading Options Spreads and Combinations
    Effective Monday, January 22, 2007. Click here to read about the rule change for trading option spreads and combination on the following contracts: CME S&P 500, CME S&P 500/Citigroup Growth, CME S&P 500/Citigroup Value and CME NASDAQ-100 options on futures.
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Month-End Fair Value ProceduresUnderstanding the Special Opening Quotation (SOQ)
Calculating Fair ValueBROCHURE: CME Equity Products Information Guide
Final Settlement ProceduresFAQ: Exchange for Physicals (PDF)
Equity Price Limit Guide/FAQ 
Futures and Options
NSDQ100 DEC07
2208.00B
+1400
Updated:
10/26/07 03:22 PM CST
CME RTH Flash Quotes
NSDQ100 DEC07
2210.50A
+1725
Updated:
10/26/07 03:22 PM CST
CME Globex Flash Quotes