Cboe Futures Exchange

Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE®) is the home of volatility futures, featuring futures on the Cboe® Volatility Index (VIX®). CFE is owned by Cboe Global Markets, and trades on CFE are cleared by The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). CFE is an all-electronic, open access market model with dedicated market makers and market participants providing liquidity.

Exchange notices for CFE can be found on this website (markets.cboe.com/us/futures). For additional information about CFE, please visit cfe.cboe.com.

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CFE Margin Update - July 16, 2018 | Effective - July 18, 2018
July 16, 2018
Change to CFE Pre-Open Time for TAS Contracts and Order Submission Commencement Times On August 12, 2018, Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will adjust the pre-open time at which Trade-at-Settlement (TAS) contracts transition from a suspended state to a queuing state at the beginning of a business day. Currently, the pre-open time at the beginning of a business day for both TAS and non-TAS contracts commences within the same randomized, three second period. Following the change, the pre-open time for each non-TAS contract in a product will commence randomly during the first three seconds following the start time of the queuing period, and the pre-open time for any TAS contract in that product will commence randomly between three to six seconds following the start time of the queuing period. Please click the title for complete details.
July 16, 2018
Change to CFE Pre-Open Time for TAS Contracts and Order Submission Commencement Times On August 12, 2018, Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will adjust the pre-open time at which Trade-at-Settlement (TAS) contracts transition from a suspended state to a queuing state at the beginning of a business day. Please click the title for complete details.
July 16, 2018
New CFE Products to be Added in August 2018 This notice contains the new contracts that Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will be adding in August, 2018. Click the title above for more details.
July 16, 2018
Price Parameter Change for TAS Transactions in VX Futures On July 29, 2018, Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will adjust the permissible price range for Trade at Settlement (TAS) transactions in Cboe Volatility Index (VX) futures which occur under the ticker symbol VXT. The current VXT permissible price range is from $0.10 below and $0.10 above the daily settlement price. The new VXT permissible price range will be from $0.50 below and $0.50 above the daily settlement price. Please click on the title for complete details.
July 11, 2018
CFE Margin Update - June 22, 2018 | Effective - June 25, 2018
June 22, 2018
June 2020 S&P 500 Variance Futures Contract Number of Expected Returns and Initial Variance Strike This notice provides the number of expected returns and the initial variance strike for the June 2020 S&P 500 Variance (VA) futures contract that will be listed on June 20, 2018. Please click on the title for complete details.
June 19, 2018
CFE Margin Update - June 18, 2018 | Effective - June 20, 2018
June 18, 2018
CFE Holiday Testing Opportunity To provide additional opportunities for holiday testing, the CFE Certification environment will be configured to observe a half day trading session followed by a holiday trading session beginning on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. The test is designed to mimic the modified trading hours associated with the Independence Day holiday. Please click the title for complete details.
June 18, 2018
October 2018 S&P 500 Variance Futures Contract Number of Expected Returns and Initial Variance Strike This notice provides the number of expected returns and the initial variance strike for the October 2018 S&P 500 Variance (VA) futures contract that will be listed on June 18, 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
June 15, 2018
CFE Margin Update (VA) - June 15, 2018 | Effective - June 18, 2018
June 15, 2018
CFE Modified Trading Hours for Independence Day Holiday This notice sets forth the modified trading hours on Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) for Cboe Volatility Index (VX), Cboe Bitcoin (USD) (XBT) futures, and all other CFE products for the Independence Day holiday. All times referenced in this circular are Chicago time. Please click the title for complete details.
June 15, 2018
New CFE Products Being Added in July 2018 This notice contains the new contracts that Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will be adding in July, 2018. Click the title above for more details.
June 13, 2018
CFE Margin Update (VA) - June 11, 2018 | Effective - June 11, 2018
June 11, 2018
September 2019 S&P 500 Variance Futures Contract Number of Expected Returns and Initial Variance Strike This notice provides the number of expected returns and the initial variance strike for the September 2019 S&P 500 Variance (VA) futures contract that will be listed on June 11, 2018. Please click on the title for complete details.
June 8, 2018
CFE Introduces Customized Access for Order Cancel and Risk Management Web Portal Tools Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (“CFE”) is introducing additional customized access to Web Portal tools. Effective June 17, 2018, Account Administrators of CFE Trading Privilege Holders (“TPHs”) and Clearing Firms will be able to request customized Web Portal account access to the Order Cancel and Risk Management Web Portal tools for users at their respective firms. Please click the title for complete details.
June 7, 2018
Semi-Annual Account Administrator Attestation Effective starting July 1, 2018, Cboe Global Markets will begin performing a semi-annual validation to confirm customer’s designated Account Administrators are accurate and up to date. A weekly reminder email will be sent to each Account Administrator starting four weeks prior to the attestation deadline. Only one Account Administrator is required to complete the attestation for each firm, and once completed, the reminder emails will cease. If the attestation has not been completed by the deadline, then all Account Administrator privileges will be removed for the firm, and the firm will be required to work with Cboe Membership Services to setup new Account Administrators. Please click the title for complete details.
June 4, 2018
CFE Clearing Member End of Day SFTP Order File Service to be Replaced by Order by Order FIX Drop Logical Port and Addition of Support for Drop by OCC Clearing Number The Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (“CFE”) Clearing Member End of Day SFTP Order File Service will be deprecated on July 27, 2018. CFE Clearing Members may obtain an Order by Order FIX Drop Logical Port (“ODrop”) to receive and collate order and order execution information for EFIDs associated with the applicable Clearing Member or may authorize approved Independent Software Vendors (“ISVs”) to receive this data on their behalf. Please click the title for complete details.
June 1, 2018
Reminder: CFE to Update End of Day Summary Message on PITCH and TOP Effective June 3, 2018 The update to the End of Day Summary message for the CFE PITCH and TOP market data feeds is scheduled to be released in the CFE Production environment on June 3, 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
May 31, 2018
CFE Margin Update (TYVIX) - May 31, 2018 | Effective - June 1, 2018
May 31, 2018
CFE Margin Update – May 17, 2018 | Effective – May 21, 2018
May 17, 2018
New CFE Products Being Added in June 2018 This notice contains the new contracts that Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will be adding in June, 2018. Click the title above for more details.
May 14, 2018
Updates to Cboe Global Markets, Inc. Privacy Notice and Policy Updates to Cboe Global Markets, Inc. Privacy Policy. Please click the title for complete details.
May 3, 2018
Cboe Announces Availability of RSS Feed for Technical Specification Updates Cboe is pleased to announce the availability of a RSS Feed that may be used to subscribe to technical specification updates. The feed is available for all technical specifications (including order entry and market data specifications) published to the markets.cboe.com website and includes specifications for the Cboe U.S. Equities, U.S. Options, and U.S. Futures Exchanges. To subscribe to the RSS Feed navigate to the “Technical Specifications” page for any market, and click the green RSS image at the top of the page. This will take you to the RSS feed and provide a URL that can be pasted into any RSS reader. Please click the title for complete details.
May 2, 2018
Cboe Bitcoin (USD) (XBT) Tick Increment Change Effective Date Updated to May 7, 2018 As previously announced, Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will change the Cboe Bitcoin (USD) (XBT) futures tick increment from $10.00 to $5.00. Due to customer feedback, CFE is updating the date of the scheduled tick increment change from business day May 2, 2018, to business day Monday, May 7, 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
April 30, 2018
BZX Options, EDGX Options, C2 Options and CFE to Add Optional Mass Cancel ID, Change Length of Binary Protocol Purge Rejected Message BZX Options Exchange, EDGX Options Exchange, C2 Options Exchange and CFE are pleased to announce the addition of MassCancelId as an optional bitfield on Binary Order Entry (BOE) Purge Rejected messages effective on the dates in the Rollout Schedule below. The MassCancelId, if sent, will allow customers to tie a Purge Rejected message back to a Purge Orders request. Important: The addition of an optional bitfield will change the length of the Purge Rejected message in BOE across all four exchanges, even if the new optional bitfield is not requested on Login. Please click the title for complete details.
April 26, 2018
Letter from Ed Tilly and Chris Concannon Letter from Ed Tilly and Chris Concannon regarding the VIX Index. Please click on the title for complete details.
April 23, 2018
Letter from Ed Tilly and Chris Concannon Letter from Ed Tilly and Chris Concannon regarding the VIX Index. Please click on the title for complete details.
April 23, 2018
August 2018 S&P 500 Variance Futures Contract Number of Expected Returns and Initial Variance Strike This notice provides the number of expected returns and the initial variance strike for the August 2018 S&P 500 Variance (VA) futures contract that will be listed on April 23rd, 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
April 20, 2018
CFE Margin Update (VX, VU, VA) – April 20, 2018 | Effective – April 23, 2018
April 20, 2018
New CFE Products Being Added in May 2018 This notice contains the new contracts that Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will be adding in May, 2018. Click the title above for more details
April 20, 2018
Update Regarding Order Cancels During CFE System Suspension Periods Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) is issuing this notice to advise CFE Trading Privilege Holders (TPHs) of when it will become permissible for TPHs to submit cancels during a suspended state. Please click the title for complete details.
April 19, 2018
Cboe to Observe Moment of Silence on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Cboe will join other market participants in observing a one minute moment of silence at 9:20 a.m. ET to pay respect to Barbara Bush. While trading will not be affected, we encourage market participants to join us in silent tribute to the former first lady.
April 18, 2018
CFE Margin Update – April 16, 2018 | Effective – April 18, 2018
April 16, 2018
CFE Product System Parameters Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) is pleased to announce that CFE Product Level System Parameters are now featured on the markets.cboe.com and cfe.cboe.com websites. The page contains various CFE product level system parameters that apply within the CFE’s trading system. This page is updated dynamically to account for changes in system parameters and new CFE product listings. Please click the title for complete details.
April 16, 2018
EDGX Options and CFE to Populate CumQty on Leg Fills Related to Complex Executions Cboe EDGX Options Exchange and Cboe Futures Exchange (“CFE”) are pleased to announce the release of new functionality that will allow for CumQty (FIX Tag 14) to be populated on leg fills related to complex executions. Currently, the CumQty field is zero-filled for all such executions. This change will also be applied to the new C2 Options platform operating on Bats technology which is launching on May 14, 2018, subject to regulatory review. Please click the title for complete details.
April 10, 2018
Cboe to Begin Automatic Removal of Unused Certification Logical Ports Effective March 15, 2018 Effective March 15, 2018, logical ports unused in the BZX Equities, BYX Equities, EDGX Equities, EDGA Equities, BZX Options, EDGX Options, and CFE Certification environments for the last four (4) months will be deleted. Furthermore, following the effective date the Exchanges will periodically perform a similar sweep for inactive Certification ports and remove any unused sessions automatically without notice. Cboe Options and C2 Options Certification logical ports will not be automatically deleted until those systems are fully migrated to Bats technology. Please click the title for complete details.
March 8, 2018
CFE to Increase Maximum Number of Order Modifications Effective March 18, 2018 Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will increase the maximum number of order modifications that are allowed on an order for a given trading day effective on Sunday, March 18, 2018. The limit will increase from the current value of 1,295 to a value of 1,679,615 per order per day. Please click the title for complete details.
March 5, 2018
CFE’s Successful Migration: Thank You A year after our acquisition of Bats, we are thrilled to announce the successful migration of Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) to proprietary Bats technology, a significant milestone in our multi-exchange, multi-year technology integration. Please click the title to read the full note.
February 27, 2018
CFE Block Trade/ECRP Reporting Tool Effective February 25, 2018, Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC is scheduled to complete its transition onto Bats technology. Along with this migration will be a new method for submitting Block Trades and Exchange of Contract for Related Position (ECRP) transactions for reporting and clearing purposes. The Exchange will offer a detailed presentation of the Block/ECRP Reporting Tool on Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
February 16, 2018
CFE Modified Trading Hours for Presidents’ Day Holiday This notice sets forth the modified trading hours on Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) for Cboe Volatility Index (VX) and Cboe bitcoin (USD) (XBT) futures and all other CFE products for the Presidents’ Day holiday. All times referenced in this circular are Chicago time.
February 13, 2018
Reminder: New CFE Trading Platform Disaster Recovery Data Center Fail-over Test on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 As previously announced, the CFE will be conducting a Disaster Recovery Data Center fail-over test on the new Bats Technology CFE trading platform on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. The new CFE production platform has been active during CFE trading hours with TEST SYMBOLS ONLY since November 6, 2017. The fail-over test will begin at approximately 9AM CT on February 13th and the new trading platform will remain active from the Disaster Recovery Data Center until the next trading date. Please click the title for complete details.
February 12, 2018
CFE Weekend Test Reminder: Saturday, February 10, 2018 As a reminder, on Saturday, February 10, 2018 Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (“CFE”) will be performing the fourth of five weekend tests on the new Bats technology trading platform. Please click the title for complete details.
February 2, 2018
New CFE Products Being Added in February 2018 This notice contains the new contracts that Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) will be adding in February 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
January 26, 2018
May 2018 S&P 500 Variance Futures Contract Number of Expected Returns and Initial Variance Strike This notice contains the number of expected returns and the initial variance strike for the May 2018 S&P 500 Variance (VA) futures contract that will be listed on January 22, 2018. Please click the title for complete details.
January 19, 2018
CFE Weekend Test Reminder: Saturday, January 20, 2018 As a reminder, on Saturday, January 20, 2018 Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (“CFE”) will be performing the third of five weekend tests on the new Bats technology trading platform.
January 17, 2018
Cboe Integration Update Cboe is pleased to announce it will conduct its next customer integration call at 11:30 a.m. CT on January 9, 2018 to update customers regarding the migration of both CFE and C2 trading platforms to Bats technology as well as the CSMI Index data feed migration to NY5. During the call, we will update details regarding our data center strategy, the integration timeline, key transition dates, and additional information. Click the title for complete details.
December 20, 2017
Cboe Holiday Reminder – Christmas and New Year’s Day The below table sets forth the modified trading schedules for the Cboe Options Exchanges (Cboe, C2, BZX and EDGX Options), Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE), and the Cboe U.S. Equity Exchanges (BYX, BZX, EDGA and EDGX Equities) in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Please click the title for complete details.
December 18, 2017
Cboe Introduces Customer Web Portal User Management Effective immediately, Cboe is introducing a Customer Web Portal User Management privilege which will allow Account Admins to manage Web Portal account permissions for their firm. Account Admins can now create, edit, or disable Web Portal accounts from within the portal itself, as well as create and manage user roles specific to their firm. Please click the title for complete details.
November 27, 2017