MESU8 expiry: September 15, 2028

When MESU8 stops trading

Trading terminates at 9:30 a.m. ET on the third Friday of the contract month. For MESU8 that falls on September 15, 2028.

Senzoukria stops offering MESU8 as the default contract on September 7, 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 MESU8 the next listed delivery is MESZ8, whose last trading day is December 15, 2028. That is the contract the volume moves into, just as it moved out of MESM8 on June 8, 2028.

What one tick is worth on MESU8

The minimum price fluctuation is 0.25, which is $1.25 per contract on a multiplier of 5. A full point is therefore $5.00. 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 MES 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 MESU8 position and the rows of its footprint come from the same numbers.

Every MES delivery listed in 2028

MES lists 4 delivery months a year (H, M, U, Z). MESU8 is number 3 of 4 in 2028.

MESU8 and ESU8 side by side

MES and ES 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. MESU8 and ESU8 share the same last trading day, September 15, 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.