Most Active Indices Futures - Barchart.com (2024)

TheMost Active Futurespage lists the commodity contracts with the greatest volume for the day. You can view the "Full List" - the contracts from all groupings with the greatest volume - or you may select from specific Commodity Grouping to see all contracts.

TheMost Active Futures pages present a set list of futures and commodities broken out in their respective commodity groupings. You will see new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash". When moving between Views (Main, Technical, Performance), the list of contracts remains the same. However, each View may sort the contracts differently, resulting in a different ordering of the contracts than presented on the Chart View.

"Make This My Default Page"

Logged in users have the option to select a tab (Energies, Grains, etc.), select any view, then save that page as the default page to open next time you come to the Highs/Lows page.

Data Updates

For pages showing Intraday views, we use the current session's data with new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash". Stocks: 15 minute delay (Cboe BZX data for U.S. equities is real-time), ET. Volume reflects consolidated markets. Futures and Forex: 10 or 15 minute delay, CT.

The list of symbols included on the page is updated every 10 minutes throughout the trading day. However, new stocks are not automatically added to or re-ranked on the page until the site performs its 10-minute update.

For reference, we include the date and timestamp of when the list was last updated at the top right of the page.

Page Sort

Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.

Views

Most data tables can be analyzed using "Views." A View simply presents the symbols on the page with a different set of columns. Site members can also display the page using Custom Views.

Each View has a "Links" column on the far right to access a symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Options Quotes (when available), Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. Standard Views found throughout the site include:

  • Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, Percent Change, High, Low, Volume, and Time of Last Trade.
  • Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 20-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Historic Volatility, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High and 52-Week Low.
  • Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, YTD Percent Change, 1-Month, 3-Month and 1-Year Percent Change.
  • Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income, Beta, Annual Dividend, and Dividend Yield.
    Note
    : For all markets except U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page.
  • Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
  • Pre-Post Market Data: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.
View Symbol More Data (+)

Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.

Horizontal Scroll on Wide Tables

Especially when using a custom view, you may find that the number of columns chosen exceeds the available space to show all the data. In this case, the table must be horizontally scrolled (left to right) to view all of the information. To do this, you can either scroll to the bottom of the table and use the table's scrollbar, or you can scroll the table using your browser's built-in scroll:

  • Left-click with your mouse anywhere on the table.
  • Use your keyboard's left and right arrows to scroll the table.
  • Repeat this anywhere as you move through the table to enable horizontal scrolling.
Flipcharts

Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. While viewing Flipcharts, you can apply a custom chart template, further customizing the way you can analyze the symbols. Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members.

Note: Flipcharts, unlike the full-page chart or Dashboard, does not stream updated data to the chart.

Download

Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 1000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.

Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.

Note: Due to licensing restrictions, Canadian fundamental data cannot be downloaded from Barchart.com. You will see "N/L" in a downloaded column when this is the case.

Should you require more than 250 downloads per day, please contact Barchart Sales at 866-333-7587 or email solutions@barchart.com for more information or additional options about historical market data.

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FAQs

What are the most active index futures? ›

What are the most active index futures? The E-mini S&P 500 index futures are well-known for being among the most frequently traded stock index futures in the United States.

Which futures market is most volatile? ›

Traders can view the high, low, open and close of a trade on a 60-second basis. Crude oil (CL) provides decent volume, but it also requires the most margin and is the most volatile.

What are the most liquid futures in the US? ›

Highlights: Most Liquid Futures

As of 2021, Natural gas futures traded about 400,000 contracts per day. The daily trading volume of gold futures contracts typically exceeds 200,000 contracts. Soybean futures are among the most liquid agricultural futures contracts, with a daily volume of over 100,000 contracts in 2021.

How to check future prices? ›

It is a mathematical representation of how futures price change if any of the market variable change.
  1. Futures Price = Spot price *(1+ rf – d) ...
  2. Futures Price = Spot price * [1+ rf*(x/365) – d] ...
  3. Mid-month calculation. ...
  4. Far-month calculation. ...
  5. Buying vs.

What are the top 3 US indices? ›

United States Indices
NameLastHigh
Dow Jones38,765.7638,886.47
NYSE Composite17,699.117,739.7
NYSE Market Composite4,792.74,810.3
Nasdaq16,292.5116,312.65
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Which futures is most profitable? ›

What futures are most profitable? Trading in futures markets such as the Micro E-Mini Russell 2000 (M2K), Micro E-Mini S&P 500 (MES), Micro E-Mini Dow (MYM), and Micro E-Micro FX contracts can be highly profitable due to their distinct market characteristics.

What is the most volatile index to trade? ›

As can be seen the most volatile indices in the US markets are the diversified Russell 2000 and NASDAQ 100. In the European region, the DAX 30 of Germany and the AEX index are among the most volatile. In the Asia Pacific, the Nifty 50 is the most volatile with over 100% volatility.

What are the best futures to trade at night? ›

“A simple strategy would be to buy E-mini S&P 500 futures around 11:30 p.m. and sell them around 3:30 a.m. if the stock market dropped a lot during the prior U.S. trading day. Most brokers let you submit time-specific orders in advance, so you do not have to wake up in the middle of the night.”

Which futures are best for day trading? ›

According to our index, E-mini S&P 500, Natural Gas, and 10-Year Treasury Note are the top three contracts for day trading. However, this measure is extremely simple. It is not entirely indicative of which market is the best for your day trading.

What is the most traded futures contract in the world? ›

What are the Top 10 Liquid Futures Contracts?
  • S&P 500 E-mini (ES) The S&P500 Emini futures contract attracts an average trading volume of over 1.6 million contracts on any given day. ...
  • 10 Year T-Notes (ZN) ...
  • Crude Oil (CL) ...
  • 5-Year T-notes (ZF) ...
  • Gold (GC) ...
  • EuroFx (6E) ...
  • 30-year T-Bonds (ZB) ...
  • 8. Japanese Yen (6J)
May 8, 2018

What is the best platform to trade futures? ›

Best online brokers for futures
  • Interactive Brokers.
  • E*TRADE.
  • Charles Schwab.
  • tastytrade.
  • TradeStation.

What is the largest futures market in the US? ›

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures.

What is the most accurate stock predictor? ›

AltIndex – We found that AltIndex is the most accurate stock predictor for 2024. Unlike other providers in this space, AltIndex relies on alternative data points, such as social media sentiment and website analytics. It also uses artificial intelligence to convert its findings into risk-averse stock picks.

What is the difference between indices and indices futures? ›

An index tracks the price of an asset or a group of assets, such as equities, commodities, and currencies. A futures contract is a derivative that obligates traders to buy or sell the underlying asset on a set day at a predetermined price.

What drives futures prices? ›

Interest rates are one of the most important factors that affect futures prices; however, other factors, such as the underlying price, interest (dividend) income, storage costs, the risk-free rate, and convenience yield, play an important role in determining futures prices as well.

What are the 3 most widely followed indexes? ›

The three most popular stock indexes for tracking the performance of the U.S. market are the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), S&P 500 Index, and Nasdaq Composite Index.

What is the most actively traded interest rate futures contract? ›

The IMM T-bill contract, which is the most actively traded of the two by a large margin, is described below. Upon maturity the IMM contract requires the seller to deliver a U. S. Treasury bill with a $1 mil- lion face value and thirteen weeks left to maturity.

What time are futures most active? ›

Futures can be traded almost 24 hours per day. There are short pauses but traders can trade them any time, day or night. The most popular traded hours are 9:00am to 4 pm est.

What are the most popular index options? ›

Most Active Index Options
SymbolNameOption Volume
$SPXWS&P 500 Index2,475,953
$SPXS&P 500 Index410,633
$VIXCBOE Volatility Index344,405
$XSPS&P 500 MINI SPX OPTIONS INDEX151,237
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