The E-Mini quickly became the most popular equity index futures contract in the world. Following the success of this product, the exchange introduced the E-mini NASDAQ contract, at one fifth of the original NASDAQ index based contract, and many other "mini" products geared primarily towards small speculators, as opposed to large hedgers.

However, due to the different regulatory requirements, the performance bond or " margin " required for one such contract is almost as high as that for the five times larger E-Mini contract. The product never became popular, with volumes rarely exceeding 10 contracts a day.

The E-Mini contract trades from Sunday to Friday 5: According to US government investigations the sale of 75, E-mini contracts by a single trader was the trigger to cause the Flash Crash. The sequence of trades at new highs was prelude to a sharp market rally for the balance of the day and the two succeeding days.

It was the biggest E-mini trade by more than a factor of two in and attracted comparison to the flash-crash trade. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved October 2, Retrieved from " https: CS1 German-language sources de.

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