SMC-ER2 Intercommodity spread now available.  This intercommodity spread between E-mini S&P SmallCap 600 futures and E-mini Russell 2000 futures (listed on CME Globex) offers a new way to transfer your small-cap exposure to E-mini S&P SmallCap 600 futures. Read full details.

To help provide customers with relevant trading and risk-management tools across the entire equity capitalization spectrum, CME Group offers E-mini S&P SmallCap 600 futures. Based on what is fast-becoming the preferred small-cap benchmark, this electronically traded contract provides traders with an efficient way to capture the attractive risk/reward opportunities of the small-cap equity market and diversify vs. the S&P 500 Index.

Waived CME Clearing, CME Globex and block trading fees offered through March 2008 on this contract.

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Benefits

• Efficiency. With one trade, you can quickly and efficiently capture the strong risk/reward opportunities of the small-cap U.S. equity market.
  
• Superior index methodology. The S&P Small Cap 600 Index offers historically better performance, higher liquidity, more stability and a superior process for identifying investable and financially viable small-cap issues than many small-cap market alternatives.
  
• Fee waivers. Take advantage of waived CME Clearing, block trading and CME Globex fees, offering an even lower-cost solution for managing sector market exposure.
  
• Low correlation to the S&P 500 Index. Low correlation makes this contract well-suited for employing diversification strategies and managing investment risk across the U.S. equity market .

• Single-platform solution. Together with other CME Group S&P Index contracts, you have a single-platform solution to quickly and easily manage your exposure across the full U.S. equity market capitalization spectrum.

• Nearly 24-hour access worldwide - Available on the premier CME Globex electronic trading platform, offering trading virtually around the clock, around the world, as well as execution speed, reliability, transparency and anonymity.