Micro E-Mini Trading Strategies – Rules and Backtest

With more retail traders picking interest in futures trading, the CME Group decided to launch micro e-mini futures to make futures accessible to more retail traders with low capital. Those contracts are the smaller versions of the popular e-mini futures and, as such, have correspondingly lower margin requirements, making them affordable to more retail traders. Want to know how to trade micro e-mini futures trading strategy?

Launched in 2019 by the CME Group, the micro E-mini futures are 1/10^th the size of the older E-mini futures. Trading on the CME Globex electronic platform, micro e-mini futures are mostly financially settled and were created to make futures more accessible to traders using smaller amounts of capital. With a micro E-mini futures strategy, you can take positions on the direction of the available instrument, either for speculation, portfolio diversification, or hedging purposes.

In this post, we answer some questions about how to trade the micro e-mini futures trading strategy. To avoid trading blindly, we recommend doing a backtest of all your trading ideas. We show you an example of such a backtest.

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