Micro E-mini Dow (MYM) Tick Value & Contract Specs

The Micro E-mini Dow (MYM) is the smallest way to trade the Dow Jones Industrial Average, worth $0.50 per index point against YM's $5. Its tick is a full index point, so tick value and point value are the same number — $0.50 — which makes MYM the easiest index future to size in your head. A 100-point Dow move is $50 per contract; a 250-point move, the kind that follows a surprise inflation print, is $125.

With the Dow near 40,000, one MYM contract carries roughly $20,000 of notional exposure — an order of magnitude below the E-mini, and low enough that day-trade margin at most brokers runs to a few dozen dollars. That combination of trivial arithmetic and small notional is why MYM is a common first futures contract, and why experienced traders use it to run a strategy at live-money stakes before committing to YM.

The Dow's construction matters more than its size. It is price-weighted across just 30 names, so a single high-priced constituent can pull the index in a direction the S&P 500 does not follow. Traders who watch that divergence often hold MYM against MES rather than trading it outright. The calculator below is pre-filled with MYM's specs.