ES
S&P 500 E-Mini
The benchmark index contract — the room's primary proxy for broad market risk.
Room 06 · The Hardest Room on the Floor
FUTURES & CME
The CME desk — where the bull and the bear meet on open ground and only discipline wins. Twenty-three-hour sessions, real leverage, margin that bites, contango, roll dates. The live tape at the top of this site runs the equity proxies for these markets today; this room is where the contracts get traded for real.
STATUS PLANNED — OPENS ON GO
The Instruments
Room 06 · Futures & CME
NQ
Nasdaq-100 E-Mini
The growth and tech-heavy index contract — where volatility runs hottest.
GC
Gold
The metals desk's flagship contract — the house's read on hard-asset sentiment.
CL
Crude Oil
The energy benchmark — geopolitics, inventory, and OPEC decisions in one tape.
Contract Specifications
Room 06 · Static exchange facts, not prices
ES
CME
S&P 500 E-Mini
Equity Index Future
Tick size 0.25 index pts · Tick value $12.50
Contract multiplier $50 × Index
Trading hours Sun 5:00pm–Fri 4:00pm CT · Daily halt 4:00–5:00pm CT
Source
CME Group Specs
NQ
CME
Nasdaq-100 E-Mini
Equity Index Future
Tick size 0.25 index pts · Tick value $5.00
Contract multiplier $20 × Index
Trading hours Sun 5:00pm–Fri 4:00pm CT · Daily halt 4:00–5:00pm CT
Source
CME Group Specs
GC
COMEX
Gold
Metals Future
Tick size $0.10 / troy oz · Tick value $10.00
Contract multiplier 100 troy oz
Trading hours Sun 5:00pm–Fri 4:00pm CT · Daily halt 4:00–5:00pm CT
Source
CME Group Specs
CL
NYMEX
Crude Oil (WTI)
Energy Future
Tick size $0.01 / barrel · Tick value $10.00
Contract multiplier 1,000 barrels
Trading hours Sun 5:00pm–Fri 4:00pm CT · Daily halt 4:00–5:00pm CT
Source
CME Group Specs
The Room's Realities
What the CME desk demands
24/5
23-Hour Sessions
The market doesn't respect sleep. Overnight gaps, Sunday opens, holiday half-sessions — the desk's risk rules are written for the 3 AM move, not the 10 AM one.
Leverage
Leverage Is a Weapon
Margin makes small moves large in both directions. The room treats leverage as ammunition, not entitlement — sized by the stop, capped by the guard dog in Room 05.
Mechanics
Contango, Roll & Carry
Futures expire. Roll dates, carry costs, calendar spreads — the boring mechanics that quietly decide whether a “winning” trade actually paid.
Proxies
The Tape Runs Live
The market tape on this site streams these desks live — through ETF proxies (SPY · QQQ · GLD · USO) on real prints via the Alpaca bridge. When this room goes hot, the proxies graduate to the real contracts.
“No illusions here. The CME pays discipline and punishes opinion — daily.”