E-mini Nasdaq-100 rollover dates

Tick

$50.25 per tick

One point

$20per contract

Initial margin

$46,415.60exchange, as of 27 Oct 2026

Front contract

NQZ26roll by 10 Dec 2026

Calendar as of 27 Oct 2026How we source this

Next contracts

Futures contracts expire, so a trader who wants to keep a position must close the expiring contract and open the next one: the roll. For E-mini Nasdaq-100 (NQ) the current front contract is NQZ26, with a last trading day of 18 Dec 2026. The next contract is NQH27.

The exchange rule we apply for NQ: Last trade: 3rd Friday of the contract month (09:30 ET, special opening quotation). Cash settled, no notice day. NQ is cash-settled: positions still open at expiry are closed against a final settlement price, with no delivery of anything.

The suggested roll date of 10 Dec 2026 is a convention, not an exchange rule. For equity index futures it is CME’s published roll date, eight days before expiry, when volume normally moves to the next contract. Dates are calculated from the exchange's rules and its holiday calendar. The exchange calendar is the authority.

Roll convention: CME roll date: 8 calendar days before last trade (the Thursday of the week before expiry). Exchange calendar: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/equities/nasdaq/e-mini-nasdaq-100.calendar.html

Days to rollover

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