6B Futures (British Pound): Tick Value, Expiries, Order Flow

6B contract specifications

The trading unit is 62,500 British pounds, quoted in U.S. dollars per British pound. The minimum fluctuation on CME Globex is $0.0001 per British pound, equal to $6.25 per contract; one tick is one pip. Open contracts are settled by physical delivery of the currency on the third Wednesday of the contract month. Senzoukria's contract table holds the same tick and multiplier.

6B last trading day and next contracts

Trading ends on the second business day preceding the third Wednesday of the contract month. If the computed last trading day is a bank holiday in Chicago or New York, trading ends on the preceding business day common to both cities' banks and the exchange.

For 6BZ6, the default moves to the next listed month on December 10, 2026 (4 calendar days before December 14, 2026), and 6BZ6 stays selectable with its badge until that date. The exchange calendar also lists other months (F, G, J, K, N, Q, V, X); Senzoukria's catalogue uses H, M, U, Z to choose its default contract.

6B tick value and P&L arithmetic

• One tick = $0.0001 × 62,500 = $6.25.
• 20 pips ($0.002) = 20 ticks = $125 per contract.
• On 3 contracts, the same move is $375.
• The same 20 pips on M6B are $12.50 per contract.

Reading 6B order flow

With row resolution off, a 6B footprint has one row per $0.0001 tick. The fixed steps give 2 ticks = $0.0002, 4 ticks = $0.0004, 8 ticks = $0.0008, 16 ticks = $0.0016, 32 ticks = $0.0032 per row. Grouping keeps totals exact but the POC then names a row, not a price.

6B trades in full pips: the tick is $0.0001 per pound, $6.25 on 62,500 pounds. With grouping off each footprint row is one pip, and the fixed steps give 2 to 32 pips per row. M6B shares the same one-pip tick at one tenth of the size, so the two contracts sit on the same price grid while keeping separate books.

Using 6B in Senzoukria

• Symbol picker on a Rithmic or Databento CME source: type 6B; on September 25, 2026 the listed contract is 6BZ6 (December 2026), in the Currencies family.
• Replay lists 6B in the Currencies group. In the automatic backtest, set Point value ($) to 62,500, the dollar value of a move of one dollar per British pound; the field defaults to 2.
• CME currency futures are a different market from spot forex: centralized book, exchange volume and a delivery date. Senzoukria reads them through a futures connection, not through a forex broker.