Top One Futures Trading Instruments: Full List (2026)

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Top One Futures gives you access to the full CME Group futures product lineup. As of April 2026, that includes equity index futures, energy, metals, currencies, interest rates, and select agricultural contracts. The instrument list itself is broad. What actually matters for prop trading is which of those instruments fit your account size, contract limits, and drawdown structure.

I trade primarily ES and NQ on my Top One Futures accounts. Those two instruments account for the vast majority of volume across all futures prop firms, and for good reason. Tight spreads, deep liquidity, and predictable session behavior. I've withdrawn over $20,000 from TOF funded accounts, and almost all of that came from index futures.

This article covers every instrument category available at Top One Futures, the specific contract specs you need to know, which markets are realistic for prop trading with limited contracts, and the micro alternatives that give you more flexibility.

What Futures Exchanges Does Top One Futures Support?

Top One Futures routes all orders through CME Group exchanges. As of April 2026, that means you have access to products listed on four CME Group exchanges:

• CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange): equity index futures, currency futures
• CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade): Dow futures, interest rate products, agricultural futures
• NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange): crude oil, natural gas, heating oil
• COMEX (Commodity Exchange): gold, silver, copper

This covers the vast majority of liquid futures contracts traded globally. You won't find products from ICE (like Brent crude or coffee) or Eurex (like DAX futures) on Top One Futures. It's strictly CME Group.

For most futures traders, that's not a limitation. The CME product set includes every major benchmark contract. If you're trading something outside CME Group, you're in a niche that prop firms generally don't support anyway.

Equity Index Futures

Equity index futures are the backbone of prop trading at Top One Futures. These are the most liquid, tightest-spread instruments available, and they're what the majority of funded traders use.

Standard (Mini) Contracts:

• ES (E-mini S&P 500): $12.50 per tick, 4 ticks per point, $50 per point. The single most traded futures contract in the world.
• NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100): $5.00 per tick, 4 ticks per point, $20 per point. Higher volatility than ES, which means bigger moves but also faster drawdown erosion.
• YM (E-mini Dow): $5.00 per tick, 1 tick per point, $5 per point. Lower per-tick risk than ES or NQ, which makes it popular with smaller accounts.
• RTY (E-mini Russell 2000): $5.00 per tick, 10 ticks per point, $50 per point. Thinner liquidity than ES or NQ, wider spreads during off-hours.

Micro Contracts:

• MES (Micro E-mini S&P 500): $1.25 per tick, $5 per point
• MNQ (Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100): $0.50 per tick, $2 per point
• MYM (Micro E-mini Dow): $0.50 per tick, $0.50 per point
• M2K (Micro E-mini Russell 2000): $0.50 per tick, $5 per point

I spend 90% of my trading time on ES and NQ. ES gives you clean price action and enough movement to hit profit targets without needing to hold for hours. NQ moves faster and farther, which is great when you're right and brutal when you're wrong. On my 50K accounts, I'll sometimes run 2 ES minis and keep 10 MNQ micros as a secondary position.

YM is underrated for smaller accounts. On the 25K with only 1 mini allowed, YM's $5 per tick gives you more room to breathe than ES at $12.50. The tradeoff is less intraday range.

Energy Futures

Energy contracts are available on Top One Futures through the NYMEX exchange. These are volatile instruments with different session dynamics than equity indexes.

Standard Contracts:

• CL (Crude Oil): $10.00 per tick, 100 ticks per point, $10 per 0.01 move. Highly liquid during the New York session. Moves in chunks and can gap between sessions.
• NG (Natural Gas): $10.00 per tick. Extremely volatile. Daily ranges on NG can exceed most traders' entire drawdown on a 25K account.

Micro Contracts:

• MCL (Micro Crude Oil): $1.00 per tick. One-tenth the exposure of CL, making it accessible on smaller prop accounts.
• MNG (Micro Natural Gas): $1.00 per tick. Still volatile, but manageable on accounts with tight drawdown limits.

CL is the only energy contract I'd consider realistic for prop trading at Top One Futures. It has enough liquidity for clean execution and the tick value is manageable. NG is a different animal. A 50-tick move on NG (which happens regularly) is $500 on a standard contract. On a 25K account with a $500 daily loss limit, one bad NG trade ends your day. On a micro, it's $50, which is workable but still volatile relative to the daily range.

If you trade energy, stick to MCL on smaller accounts. CL is feasible on the 100K where you have more drawdown room, but you need to respect the session volatility.

Metals Futures

Metals trade on the COMEX exchange under the CME Group umbrella. Gold and silver are the primary contracts.

Standard Contracts:

• GC (Gold): $10.00 per tick, 10 ticks per point, $100 per point. Gold tends to move in multi-point swings, so a 5-point move is $500. Liquid, trending, and popular with swing-oriented traders.
• SI (Silver): $25.00 per tick, 20 ticks per point, $5 per 0.001 move. More volatile than gold with wider spreads. The high tick value makes it dangerous on smaller accounts.
• HG (Copper): $12.50 per tick. Lower volume than gold or silver. Not a typical prop trading instrument.

Micro Contracts:

• MGC (Micro Gold): $1.00 per tick, $10 per point. A realistic way to trade gold on a 25K or 50K account.
• SIL (Micro Silver): $2.50 per tick. Reduces silver's per-tick risk significantly.

GC is the most viable metals contract for prop trading. It trends well, has good session liquidity, and the micro version (MGC) lets you trade gold on even the smallest TOF accounts. Silver is appealing on paper but the $25 tick value on the standard contract means a 20-tick adverse move costs $500. That's your entire daily loss limit on a 25K account from a single contract.

I'll occasionally trade MGC when gold is in a strong trend, but it's never my primary instrument. ES and NQ give me better setups more consistently.

Currency, Interest Rate, and Agricultural Futures

Top One Futures also provides access to CME currency futures, CBOT interest rate products, and agricultural contracts. These categories see less volume from prop traders, but they're available if they fit your strategy.

Currencies:

• 6E (Euro FX): $6.25 per tick. The most liquid currency future.
• 6J (Japanese Yen): $6.25 per tick.
• 6B (British Pound): $6.25 per tick.
• 6A (Australian Dollar), 6C (Canadian Dollar), 6S (Swiss Franc): All $6.25 per tick.

Currency futures are an alternative if you come from a forex background. The tick values are moderate and liquidity is decent during the London/New York overlap. The downside: currency futures move slower intraday than equity indexes, so hitting profit targets takes longer.

Interest Rates:

• ZB (30-Year T-Bond): $31.25 per tick.
• ZN (10-Year T-Note): $15.625 per tick.
• ZF (5-Year T-Note): $7.8125 per tick.

Interest rate futures are institutional instruments. They move on macro data and Fed announcements. Most retail prop traders don't touch them, and the odd tick values make quick mental math harder in real time.

Agriculture:

• ZC (Corn): $12.50 per tick.
• ZS (Soybeans): $12.50 per tick.
• ZW (Wheat): $12.50 per tick.

Agricultural futures are seasonal and news-driven. They're available at Top One Futures but rarely used by prop traders. Liquidity thins out fast outside the regular trading hours, and the fundamentals require specialized knowledge.

Complete Instrument Reference Table

This table covers the most commonly referenced instruments. The full CME Group catalog includes dozens more products, but these are the ones relevant to prop traders at Top One Futures.

Contract Limits by Account Size

Your instrument choice is only half the equation. The other half is how many contracts you can actually trade.

Top One Futures sets account-wide contract limits based on your account size and phase. During evaluation, as of April 2026:

• 25K account: 1 mini contract (10 micro equivalents)
• 50K account: 3 mini contracts (30 micro equivalents)
• 100K account: 5 mini contracts (50 micro equivalents)

These limits apply across all instruments combined. If you have 2 ES minis open on a 50K account, you can only add 1 more contract in any market. Or 10 micros. The cap is account-wide, not per-symbol.

On funded accounts, you start with reduced limits that scale upward as you hit profit milestones. The exact tiers are published in Top One Futures' help center and can change, so verify before planning your scaling approach.

This contract structure directly affects instrument selection. On the 25K account with 1 mini, you're picking one instrument per trade. No splitting between ES and NQ simultaneously. That constraint pushes most 25K traders toward a single instrument they know well, and micros become the only way to spread across markets.

Which Instruments Work Best for Prop Trading?

Not every available instrument makes sense for prop trading. The constraints at Top One Futures (contract limits, daily loss limits, EOD trailing drawdown) narrow the practical list considerably.

Best for most traders: ES, NQ, and their micro equivalents (MES, MNQ). Tight spreads, deep liquidity, predictable session timing. ES moves roughly 40-60 points on an average day. At $12.50 per tick, that's enough range to hit profit targets without holding positions for hours. NQ moves more in dollar terms per day, which means faster profits and faster losses.

Viable alternatives: YM on smaller accounts (lower tick value gives more room), GC if you understand gold's session dynamics, CL during the New York energy session.

Caution: NG (extreme volatility), SI (high tick value), agricultural contracts (thin liquidity, seasonal). These aren't impossible, but they don't pair well with tight drawdown limits.

Impractical for most: Interest rate futures, currency futures beyond 6E. Not because they're bad instruments. They just don't generate enough intraday movement to meet prop firm profit targets efficiently on limited contract sizes.

If you're starting out with Top One Futures, pick ES or NQ. Learn one instrument's behavior deeply. I traded ES almost exclusively for my first six months of prop trading before branching into NQ. Specialization beats diversification when you have 1-5 contracts to work with.

How Instrument Volatility Affects Your Drawdown

Instrument selection interacts directly with Top One Futures' EOD trailing drawdown. This is where people get into trouble.

The EOD trailing drawdown ratchets up when your end-of-day equity hits a new high. Once it moves, it never comes back down. So if you trade a volatile instrument (NQ, CL, NG), your equity can spike intraday, close the day at that high, and your drawdown floor locks in closer to your current balance.

Example on a 50K account. You start the day at $50,500. You trade NQ, have a great session, and your equity peaks at $52,000. You take profit and close at $51,800. Your EOD drawdown floor now recalculates based on that $51,800 close (not the $52,000 intraday peak, since TOF uses end-of-day, not real-time trailing). If the drawdown is $2,000, your floor is now $49,800 instead of where it was before.

This means volatile instruments can push your drawdown floor up faster than you expect. ES tends to produce more controlled equity curves than NQ or CL, which is one reason I default to it on funded accounts where protecting the drawdown buffer matters most.

On evaluation accounts, volatility works differently. You need to hit a profit target, so faster-moving instruments can get you there sooner. The tradeoff is a higher chance of blowing through your drawdown. Pick based on your risk tolerance and trading style, not just the potential upside.

Micro Contracts: When and Why to Use Them

Micro contracts at Top One Futures are 1/10th the size of their standard equivalents. They count as 1/10th of a contract toward your account limit.

Practical scenarios where micros make sense:

Scaling into positions. On a 50K account with 3 minis allowed, instead of entering 3 ES contracts at once, enter 10 MES, then another 10, then the last 10. Same maximum exposure, granular control over entries.

Trading multiple instruments. On a 100K account with 5 minis, you could run 3 ES minis and 20 MNQ micros simultaneously. That's 3 + 2 = 5 mini-equivalents, spreading across two markets within your limit.

Reducing per-trade risk on smaller accounts. The 25K account with 1 mini allowed means a 10-tick adverse move on ES costs $125. With 5 MES micros (half your allocation), the same move costs $62.50. You give up profit potential, but you survive longer.

Testing new instruments. Want to try trading GC but don't want to risk a full contract? Trade 2-3 MGC micros to see how gold moves without committing significant risk.

I use micros regularly on funded accounts. The flexibility is worth the slightly wider effective spreads on some micro products. On evaluation, I lean more toward standard contracts because I want to maximize the dollar impact of winning trades to hit the profit target faster.

Frequently Asked Questions

What futures instruments can you trade at Top One Futures?

Top One Futures supports CME Group futures contracts across equity indexes (ES, NQ, YM, RTY), energy (CL, NG), metals (GC, SI), currencies (6E, 6J, 6B), interest rates (ZB, ZN, ZF), and agriculture (ZC, ZS, ZW). As of April 2026, any product listed on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, or COMEX exchanges is available.

Does Top One Futures offer micro futures contracts?

Yes. Top One Futures supports micro versions of the most popular contracts, including MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K, MCL, MGC, and others. Each micro contract counts as 1/10th of a standard mini toward your account's contract limit.

What is the best instrument to trade at Top One Futures?

ES (E-mini S&P 500) and NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100) are the most traded instruments at Top One Futures. They offer the tightest spreads, deepest liquidity, and most predictable session behavior. For smaller accounts, YM provides a lower tick value ($5 vs. $12.50 on ES) that gives more margin for error.

How many contracts can you trade per instrument at Top One Futures?

Top One Futures contract limits are account-wide, not per-instrument. A 25K account allows 1 mini total, a 50K allows 3 minis total, and a 100K allows 5 minis total during evaluation. If you have positions in ES and NQ simultaneously, both count toward the same cap.

Can you trade crude oil on a Top One Futures account?

Yes. CL (Crude Oil) is available through the NYMEX exchange at Top One Futures. The standard contract has a tick value of $10.00. MCL (Micro Crude Oil) at $1.00 per tick is a better fit for 25K and 50K accounts where drawdown limits are tight.

Does Top One Futures support gold futures?

Yes. GC (Gold) trades on COMEX through Top One Futures with a tick value of $10.00 per 0.10 move. MGC (Micro Gold) at $1.00 per tick is available for traders who want gold exposure without committing a full contract.

Can you trade forex on Top One Futures?

Top One Futures supports CME currency futures (6E, 6J, 6B, 6A, 6C, 6S), not spot forex. Currency futures have standardized contract sizes and trade on regulated exchanges, unlike retail forex pairs. The tick value for major currency futures is $6.25.

Do all instruments count against the same contract limit at Top One Futures?

Yes. Top One Futures uses a single account-wide contract maximum. Every open position across all instruments counts toward that limit in mini-equivalents. 10 micro contracts in any instrument equals 1 mini toward your cap.

What instruments should you avoid on a 25K Top One Futures account?

On the 25K account with 1 mini and a $500 daily loss limit, avoid NG (Natural Gas) and SI (Silver) in standard contract size. NG's $10 tick value combined with its volatility can blow through your daily limit in minutes. SI's $25 tick value is even more dangerous. Stick to ES, YM, or use micro contracts on these volatile markets.

Are agricultural futures available at Top One Futures?

Yes. CME Group agricultural products like ZC (Corn), ZS (Soybeans), and ZW (Wheat) are available at Top One Futures. These contracts trade through the CBOT exchange. They're less popular among prop traders due to seasonal volatility patterns and thinner liquidity outside regular trading hours.

The instrument list at Top One Futures covers everything on the CME Group exchanges. That's a large catalog. But prop trading constraints narrow the practical choices. With 1-5 mini contracts and EOD trailing drawdown eating into your buffer, you want liquid instruments with manageable tick values. ES, NQ, and their micros handle 90% of scenarios. CL and GC work as secondary instruments if you understand their volatility profiles. Everything else is available but niche. Pick one or two instruments, learn their behavior inside and out, and build your track record around consistency rather than diversification.