Soybean Oil Futures Trading:
Educational Resources For Trading Futures & Options

The following information provides basic contract specifications for soybean oil futures contracts.  Please feel free to contact us via Phone, Live Chat, or Email for any further inquiries.

Participate in global price discovery for soybean oil.  Identify short and long-term cyclical price and volatility patterns for soybean oil.  Trade to hedge or speculate based on expectations of directional price, spread movement or volatility in soybean oil.  There is one contract denominations available for trade:

SYMBOL:

• BO  trades in units of 60,000 pounds.

The minimum price fluctuation is 0.01¢ per pound ($6.00 per contract)

Margin requirements are subject to change, and are required for open futures positions.

The soybean oil futures contract is available to trade via the CME Globex trading platform.  Open outcry trading is conducted 7:30AM PT through 11:15AM PT.  Electronic trading is available during open outcry trading as well as 4:00PM PT through 4:00AM PT.

Trading example:  If you were to purchase 1 contract of BO at 60.00, and the next day it moves to 60.50, you would have a profit of $300.  Inversely, if it were to move to 59.50 you would have a loss of $300.

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