Online
trading platform eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR) has rolled out a
new type of futures contract for its Spanish users, allowing them to trade
positions that mirror current market prices rather than future valuations.
eToro Adds New Futures
Contracts for Spanish Investors
The
NASDAQ-listed company said today (Wednesday) it’s offering spot-quoted futures
contracts on six markets: the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000, Dow Jones
Industrial Average, plus Bitcoin and Ethereum . The contracts come from CME
Group, the Chicago-based derivatives exchange.
Unlike
regular futures contracts that price in expected future values, these
spot-quoted versions track the actual current price of the underlying asset.
Think of it as futures trading that looks and feels more like buying stocks or
crypto at today’s prices.
“We
are proud to be among the first platforms to offer Spot-Quoted futures,”
said Yossi Brandes, eToro’s VP of Execution Services. The contracts
“simplify access to futures by expressing positions in spot-market
terms.”
The move
builds on eToro’s
earlier launch of traditional futures trading in Spain, which gave eligible
users access to 20 different contracts across equities, energy, and gold
markets.
Lower Entry Barriers
These new
contracts require around $200 to get started – significantly less than many
traditional futures products. They also run for a full year without the
quarterly or monthly rollovers that can complicate regular futures trading.
Spanish
users can go long or short on these contracts most hours during weekdays. But
there’s a catch: positions held overnight get hit with daily financing
adjustments to keep the contract price aligned with the actual market price.
Tali
Salomon, eToro’s regional manager for Iberia and Latin America, said the
addition gives Spanish retail investors “greater flexibility, all within
eToro’s seamless experience of managing investments from a single multiasset
platform.”
CME Group’s
Richard Stoker called the contracts “smaller and more accessible-sized
contracts suitable for individual investors” with “familiar
spot-based pricing and longer-dated expiries.”
Growing Appetite for
Retail Futures
The launch
comes as retail interest in futures trading has grown, partly driven by
products like CME’s
micro contracts that lowered entry barriers. CME introduced spot-quoted
futures in
June 2025, pitching them as easier-to-understand alternatives to
traditional futures.
However,
eToro’s disclaimers warn that these instruments “involve significant risk
and are not suitable for all investors.” The company notes that traders
“may lose more than your initial investment due to the underlying assets’
price volatility .”
The
contracts are currently only available to eligible eToro users in Spain, with
the company saying it will notify registered users when the product becomes
available to them.
In the
meantime, the Israeli fintech launched
six new target-date UCITS ETF portfolios together with Franklin Templeton.
Online
trading platform eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR) has rolled out a
new type of futures contract for its Spanish users, allowing them to trade
positions that mirror current market prices rather than future valuations.
eToro Adds New Futures
Contracts for Spanish Investors
The
NASDAQ-listed company said today (Wednesday) it’s offering spot-quoted futures
contracts on six markets: the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000, Dow Jones
Industrial Average, plus Bitcoin and Ethereum . The contracts come from CME
Group, the Chicago-based derivatives exchange.
Unlike
regular futures contracts that price in expected future values, these
spot-quoted versions track the actual current price of the underlying asset.
Think of it as futures trading that looks and feels more like buying stocks or
crypto at today’s prices.
“We
are proud to be among the first platforms to offer Spot-Quoted futures,”
said Yossi Brandes, eToro’s VP of Execution Services. The contracts
“simplify access to futures by expressing positions in spot-market
terms.”
The move
builds on eToro’s
earlier launch of traditional futures trading in Spain, which gave eligible
users access to 20 different contracts across equities, energy, and gold
markets.
Lower Entry Barriers
These new
contracts require around $200 to get started – significantly less than many
traditional futures products. They also run for a full year without the
quarterly or monthly rollovers that can complicate regular futures trading.
Spanish
users can go long or short on these contracts most hours during weekdays. But
there’s a catch: positions held overnight get hit with daily financing
adjustments to keep the contract price aligned with the actual market price.
Tali
Salomon, eToro’s regional manager for Iberia and Latin America, said the
addition gives Spanish retail investors “greater flexibility, all within
eToro’s seamless experience of managing investments from a single multiasset
platform.”
CME Group’s
Richard Stoker called the contracts “smaller and more accessible-sized
contracts suitable for individual investors” with “familiar
spot-based pricing and longer-dated expiries.”
Growing Appetite for
Retail Futures
The launch
comes as retail interest in futures trading has grown, partly driven by
products like CME’s
micro contracts that lowered entry barriers. CME introduced spot-quoted
futures in
June 2025, pitching them as easier-to-understand alternatives to
traditional futures.
However,
eToro’s disclaimers warn that these instruments “involve significant risk
and are not suitable for all investors.” The company notes that traders
“may lose more than your initial investment due to the underlying assets’
price volatility .”
The
contracts are currently only available to eligible eToro users in Spain, with
the company saying it will notify registered users when the product becomes
available to them.
In the
meantime, the Israeli fintech launched
six new target-date UCITS ETF portfolios together with Franklin Templeton.
This post is originally published on FINANCEMAGNATES.
