British Pound specifications

Tick

$6.250.0001 per tick

One point

$62,500per contract

Initial margin

$1,870exchange, as of 27 Oct 2026

Front contract

6BZ26roll by 10 Dec 2026

Specs checked as of 27 Oct 2026How we source this

Contract terms

What these terms mean

The British Pound futures contract (6B) is listed on Chicago Mercantile Exchange. One contract represents £62,500, and prices are quoted in USD per unit of foreign currency. The minimum price movement, or tick, is 0.0001, worth $6.25 per contract. A move of one full point is therefore worth $62,500 per contract, and every profit, loss and margin figure for 6B scales from those two numbers.

6B is listed for these contract months: Mar (H), Jun (M), Sep (U), Dec (Z). 6B is physically delivered: holding a position into the delivery period can create an obligation to make or take delivery, which is why speculative traders normally close or roll before the first notice day or last trading day. The rollover page lists the next expiries and the dates that matter for each.

The values on this page come from the exchange's own contract specification and were last checked on 27 Oct 2026. Exchanges amend contract terms from time to time, most often trading hours and tick sizes. Where a value here disagrees with the exchange, the exchange is right; the methodology page explains how each field is checked, and any field we have not confirmed against the exchange is marked on this page.

Sources

• https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/fx/g10/british-pound.contractSpecs.html: primary reference for all contract terms; linked, not machine-read (cmegroup.com blocks automated access) 2026-10-27
• https://www.ampfutures.com/trading-info/contract-specifications: cross-check of tick size, tick value, contract unit and months; secondary source (broker page) 2026-10-27