This article covers all the available products you can trade with Topstep in your Trading Combine or Funded Accounts, along with our permitted trading hours.
What are the trading hours?
The trading hours are pretty simple. We require that our traders close their positions daily before 3:10:00 PM Central Time (CT), Monday through Friday. You can resume trading at 5:00 PM CT. After the weekend, trading resumes on Sunday at 5:00:00 PM CT.
The Trading Combine is for day traders, meaning positions cannot be held from one session to the next or into the weekend close.
If you open trades too close to market close, you may not have sufficient time to manage them. While all positions must be closed by 3:10 PM CT, we recommend avoiding opening new positions after 3:08 PM CT, as Risk Managers begin to flatten positions at that time. While this is done as a courtesy, it is still your responsibility to make sure you are flat by market close.
If you're trading a futures contract that closes before 3:10:00 PM, you must exit that market before the daily close to ensure you're flat for the 3:10:00 PM CT hard cutoff.
Unless there is a CME holiday, you can resume trading on the weekends at 5:00 PM CT on Sunday, and any trades placed after that point will be reflected on that Monday's Trade Report.
Important: All open positions AND pending/unfilled orders are canceled at 3:10 PM CT each weekday. You must be fully flat — no open positions and no working orders — by 3:10 PM CT. You may hold a position during the trading day, but you cannot carry it into the next session. Trading resumes at 5:00 PM CT.
Sunday overnight exception: You may open a position after 5:00 PM CT on Sunday and hold it overnight into Monday morning, up until that product's market close on Monday.
Tip: Some futures markets close before 3:10 PM CT. If you are trading one of these products, you need to exit that market before the product's daily close. *CBOT Commodity Products (Wheat, Corn, Soybean, Soybean Meal, and Soybean Oil) have the following trading hours: Sunday - Monday 7:00 PM - 7:45 AM CST and Monday - Friday 8:30 - 1:20 PM CST *CME Agriculture Products (Live Cattle and Lean Hogs) have the following trading hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 1:05 PM CST |
Which products can I trade with Topstep?
The CME Group products listed below are the products that traders can use to trade in the Topstep Trading Combine:
CME Equity Futures |
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E-mini S&P 500 (ES) | Micro E-mini S&P (MES)* |
E-mini NASDAQ 100 (NQ) | Micro E-mini NASDAQ 100 (MNQ)* |
E-mini Russell 2000 (RTY) | Micro E-mini Russell 2000 (M2K)* |
Nikkei NKD (NKD) | Micro Bitcoin (MBT)* |
Micro Ether (MET)* |
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CME Foreign Exchange Futures |
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Australian $ (6A) | British Pound (6B) |
Canadian $ (6C) | Euro FX (6E) |
Japanese Yen (6J) | Swiss Franc (6S) |
E-mini Euro FX (E7) | Micro Euro FX (M6E)* |
Micro AUD/USD (M6A)* | Mexican Peso (6M)* |
New Zealand $ (6N) | Micro GBP/USD (M6B) |
CME Agricultural Futures |
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Lean Hogs (HE) | Live Cattle (LE) |
CME NYMEX Futures |
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Crude Oil (CL) | E-mini Crude Oil (QM) |
Natural Gas (NG) | E-mini Natural Gas (QG) |
Micro Crude Oil (MCL)* | RBOB Gasoline (RB) |
Heating Oil (HO) | Platinum (PL) |
Micro Henry Hub Natural Gas (MNG) |
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CME CBOT Agricultural Futures |
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Corn (ZC) | Wheat (ZW) |
Soybeans (ZS) | Soybean Meal (ZM) |
Soybean Oil (ZL) |
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CME CBOT Equity Futures |
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Mini-DOW (YM) | Micro Mini-DOW (MYM)* |
CME CBOT Financial/Interest Rate Futures |
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2-Year Note (ZT) | 5-Year Note (ZF) |
10-Year Note (ZN) | 10-Year Ultra-Note (TN) |
30-Year Bond (ZB) | Ultra-Bond (UB) |
CME COMEX Futures |
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Gold (GC) | Silver (SI) |
Copper (HG) | Micro Gold (MGC)* |
Micro Silver (SIL)* | Micro Copper (MHG) |
Can I swing trade?
No, you cannot swing trade. Topstep does not permit holding positions from one session to the next. You must be flat by 3:10 PM CT each weekday. The permitted trading hours in the Trading Combine, Express Funded Account, and Live Funded Accounts are listed at the top of this page.
Can I trade Forex?
No, you cannot trade Forex with Topstep. At Topstep, we focus solely on Futures trading to provide the best possible experience for our traders. If you're a Forex trader interested in Futures, check out the full details here: Can I trade Forex with you?
Trading Hours Information
CBOT Commodity Market Pause
During the CBOT Commodity market pause that takes place Monday through Friday, between 7:45 AM CST and 8:30 AM CST, no orders will be accepted. If you have an open CBOT commodity position during that time, the manual lock-out feature will not be available on your TopstepX™ account.
Product Availability Color Coding
The TopstepX™ platform features color codes in the product drop-down menus, based on CME color codes, to help you quickly identify the market state of each product. Simply hover over a product in the drop-down to see a tooltip showing its current market state, eliminating guesswork and ensuring you always know whether the product you're trading is available. Here are the color codes you will see to describe a product's current market state:
Light Blue: Pre-Open
Orange: Paused
Green: Open
Red: Closed
*Topstep Prohibited Conduct