Most Active All 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 [email protected] for more information or additional options about historical market data.

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Most Active All Futures - Barchart.com (2024)

FAQs

What is futures charts? ›

Comprehensive and easy-to-use live futures chart that tracks the real time movements of financial instruments, such as indices, commodities, and financial futures.

What are the most active futures markets? ›

Most Active
SymNameVolume
ESU24S&P 500 E-Mini1,893,242
NMU24Nasdaq 100 Micro1,820,569
ZNU2410-Year T-Note1,723,172
ETU24S&P 500 Micro1,188,213
45 more rows

What is the most common index futures? ›

E-mini S&P 500 futures (/ES) are the most actively traded U.S. equity index futures contract, with 1.81 million contracts changing hands on average each day during 2023, according to the CME Group's exchange data.

What futures are most active at night? ›

Overnight market trading

The E-mini S&P 500 futures (traded under the symbol /ES on the thinkorswim® trading platform) trades on Globex, CME Group's all-electronic trading platform, and is one of the products with the highest after-hours volume.

What chart do most traders use? ›

Candlestick charts are perhaps the most widely used among active traders. In some ways, candlestick charts blend the benefits of line and bar charts as they convey both time and impact value. Each candlestick represents a specific timeframe and displays opening, closing, high, and low prices.

What are the most profitable futures contracts? ›

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 are the easiest futures to trade? ›

High Liquidity For Low Slippage
  • Eurodollar (GE)
  • E-mini S&P 500 (ES)
  • 10-Year Treasury Note (ZN)
  • 5-Year Treasury Note (ZF)
  • Crude Oil WTI (CL)
  • Natural Gas (NG)
  • U.S. Treasury Bond (ZB)
  • E-mini Nasdaq 100 (NQ)

What is the most volatile futures trading? ›

Which are the Most Volatile Commodities?
  • Energy Commodities: Crude Oil and Natural Gas. Among the most volatile commodities, energy sources like crude oil and natural gas stand out. ...
  • Industrial Metals: Copper and Nickel. ...
  • Agricultural Commodities: Coffee and Wheat.
Mar 1, 2024

Which futures are most liquid? ›

Crude oil leads the pack as the most liquid commodity futures market followed by corn and natural gas. Agricultural futures tend to generate the highest volume during periods of low stress in the energy pits, while gold futures have gone through boom and bust cycles that greatly impact open interest.

What is the best broker for trading futures? ›

And now, let's see the best futures brokers and trading platforms in detail one by one, starting with the winner, NinjaTrader.
  • NinjaTrader.
  • Optimus Futures.
  • Interactive Brokers.
  • Webull.
  • AMP Futures.
  • tastytrade.
  • Charles Schwab.
  • TradeStation.
Jul 16, 2024

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 best hour to trade futures? ›

What Are the Best Times to Trade U.S. Equities Index Futures?
  • U.S. Premarket Hours: 7:30-9:30 a.m. EST. The U.S. premarket hours are an important time for equities traders. ...
  • Wall Street Open: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EST. ...
  • Wall Street Close: 3:30-4 p.m. EST.

What are the most predictable markets to trade? ›

Well, predicting any market is like predicting the weather - it's always a gamble. But if you want a somewhat more predictable market, then bonds are your best bet. They tend to be less volatile than stocks or forex, and their prices are affected more by economic indicators than anything else.

What is the best pair to trade at night? ›

Major forex pairs, such as EUR/USD (Euro/US dollar), USD/JPY (US dollar/Japanese yen), and GBP/USD (British pound/US dollar), remain attractive options for night trading due to their liquidity and stable price movements. As these are the most traded pairs in forex, many market participants favour them.

What does the futures curve tell you? ›

The forward curve or the future curve is the graphical representation of the relationship between the price of forward contracts and the time to maturity of the contracts. The vertical axis measures the price of a forward contract, and the horizontal axis measures the time to maturity of that forward contract.

What do futures tell us? ›

Futures look into the future to "lock in" a future price or try to predict where something will be in the future; hence the name. Since there are futures on the indexes (S&P 500, Dow 30, NASDAQ 100, Russell 2000) that trade virtually 24 hours a day, we can watch the index futures to get a feel for market direction.

How do futures work? ›

Narrator: One use of a futures contract is to allow a business or individual to navigate risk and uncertainty. Prices are always changing, but with a futures contract, people can lock in a fixed price to buy or sell at a future date. Locking in a price lessens the risk of being negatively impacted by price change.

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