ESH8 expiry: March 17, 2028

When ESH8 stops trading

Trading terminates at 9:30 a.m. ET on the third Friday of the contract month. For ESH8 that falls on March 17, 2028.

Senzoukria stops offering ESH8 as the default contract on March 9, 2028, 8 calendar days before that last trading day, and keeps it selectable with a badge. The date is computed from the exchange rule rather than stored. The engine counts Monday to Friday and holds no CME holiday table, so a date that falls next to a public holiday can be one day off the exchange calendar. Check the exchange calendar when the date sits close to a holiday.

When the volume actually leaves

Equity index liquidity moves to the next quarter in a single week, usually the one that contains the roll date. Order flow read on the old contract after that week is thin and misleading: the book empties, prints get sparse, and a footprint built on it shows gaps that are an artefact of the roll rather than of the auction.

For ESH8 the next listed delivery is ESM8, whose last trading day is June 16, 2028. That is the contract the volume moves into.

What one tick is worth on ESH8

The minimum price fluctuation is 0.25, which is $12.50 per contract on a multiplier of 50. A full point is therefore $50.00. On a footprint chart one row is one tick, so the same vertical space holds a different number of rows depending on the product: a tick of 0.25 sets how finely the bid and ask volume of ES can be read.

These are the values the app itself trades on, taken from its contract table rather than retyped, so the P&L shown on a ESH8 position and the rows of its footprint come from the same numbers.

Every ES delivery listed in 2028

ES lists 4 delivery months a year (H, M, U, Z). ESH8 is number 1 of 4 in 2028.

ESH8 and MESH8 side by side

ES and MES track the same underlying, but ES is 10 times the size of MES: $12.50 a tick against $1.25. Both quote on the same 0.25 tick. ESH8 and MESH8 share the same last trading day, March 17, 2028, so a position in either rolls on the same date.

The practical difference is position sizing rather than behaviour. MES lets a 10-contract position carry the same exposure as one ES, which makes partial exits possible on a small account; ES carries the deeper book, so its footprint and its depth of market are the ones to read even when the position is held in MES.