6C Futures (Canadian Dollar): Tick Value, Expiries, Order Flow

6C contract specifications

The trading unit is 100,000 Canadian dollars, quoted in U.S. dollars per Canadian dollar. The minimum fluctuation on CME Globex is $0.00005 per Canadian dollar, equal to $5 per contract; two ticks make one pip of $0.0001. 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.

6C last trading day and next contracts

Trading ends on the business day immediately preceding the third Wednesday of the contract month. 6C is the one currency in Senzoukria's catalogue whose rulebook stops trading one business day before the third Wednesday instead of two. Senzoukria's expiry engine applies the two-day rule to every currency, so its picker drops the expiring 6C contract a day before the exchange does.

For 6CZ6 the exchange's last trading day is December 15, 2026, while Senzoukria's engine computes December 14, 2026; its default moves to the next quarter on December 10, 2026. 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.

6C tick value and P&L arithmetic

• One tick = $0.00005 × 100,000 = $5.
• 20 pips ($0.002) = 40 ticks = $200 per contract.
• On 3 contracts, the same move is $600.

Reading 6C order flow

With row resolution off, a 6C footprint has one row per $0.00005 tick. The fixed steps give 2 ticks = $0.0001, 4 ticks = $0.0002, 8 ticks = $0.0004, 16 ticks = $0.0008, 32 ticks = $0.0016 per row. Grouping keeps totals exact but the POC then names a row, not a price.

6C is quoted in U.S. dollars per Canadian dollar, the inverse of the USD/CAD spot convention. The tick is half a pip, $0.00005 or $5 per contract, so the fixed 2-tick row step gives one row per pip.

Using 6C in Senzoukria

• Symbol picker on a Rithmic or Databento CME source: type 6C; on September 25, 2026 the listed contract is 6CZ6 (December 2026), in the Currencies family.
• Replay lists 6C in the Currencies group. In the automatic backtest, set Point value ($) to 100,000, the dollar value of a move of one dollar per Canadian dollar; 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.