Trade futures
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Over 250 contracts across 25+ exchanges
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Trade across indices, energy, metals, rates, and more
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Micro and E-mini futures for more accessible and flexible trading
This is what you should know about Trade futures
Futures are contracts between buyers and sellers to trade an underlying asset at a specified price and date in the future. Futures give traders the opportunity to speculate in markets such as oil, agriculture, or currencies.
Underlying markets can be volatile, and your investment can lose value; as futures are traded on margin, you may even lose more than your initial investment.
Trading platform features
Futures spread trading
Place calendar spread orders from a single ticket to help you hedge and/or speculate while reducing leg and spread risk.
Technical analysis and advanced charting tools
Get integrated trade signals plus 85+ technical indicators, annotation and drawing tools, and quick trading straight from the chart.
Extensive risk management tools
Use stop-limit orders, trailing stops, account-wide stop loss, cancel all orders, margin monitoring, FX exposure reports, and more to help manage your risk.
Depth Trader
Use the Depth Trader feature in SaxoTraderPRO to place and manage orders in relation to the Level 2 order book in real time. (Data subscription required.)
Time and sales
Dive deep into market movements with real-time data on an instrument’s order executions. We provide data from the primary venue or BATS, depending on your data subscription.
More reasons to trade options with Trade futures
Fast, transparent execution
With Saxo tech, you’ll get an average execution speed of 0.009 seconds on market orders (October 2025 statistics) and no asymmetric slippage. Our fully customised orders offer you potential price improvements on every trade and an optimal balance between fill ratio and price level.
To protect you from being stopped out early, we trigger stop orders on the opposite side of the spread, based on a neutral price from a primary inter-bank venue.
We fully disclose our dealing practices and never trade against you in the market.
Negative balance protection
Tiered margin methodology
Professional status
Regulated financial institution with a banking licence
Investing platform features
Helpful screeners
Find funds that fit your goals by filtering for currencies, countries, return percentages, and more to make targeted investment decisions.
Easy portfolio monitoring
View a consolidated breakdown of your portfolio’s exposure across asset classes, sectors, countries, and currencies.
Comprehensive reporting suite
Create customised reports to review your performance and analyse your investment strategy so you can consistently gain an edge.
Futures trading FAQs
Learn how futures trading works on Saxo tech, including contract details, margin requirements, and execution.