Micro Futures
Micro futures are smaller versions of standard ('mini' or full-size) futures contracts, built to the same specification but at a fraction of the contract size — typically one-tenth. They let traders take positions with less capital and finer size control than the full-size contract allows, without changing what index or commodity they're trading exposure to.
Six mini/micro pairs cover the contracts most commonly traded by prop firm traders: NQ/MNQ (Nasdaq-100), ES/MES (S&P 500), YM/MYM (Dow), CL/MCL (crude oil), GC/MGC (gold), and RTY/M2K (Russell 2000). In each pair, the micro is built at one-tenth the point value of its mini counterpart.
Why it matters
Micros matter for prop firm traders because account sizes and daily loss limits vary widely by evaluation stage and firm. A trader who can't safely size a full ES contract against a small daily loss limit can trade MES instead and get much finer control over dollar risk per trade, without switching what they're trading.
Micros also matter directly for trade copiers, because a trader's leader and follower accounts don't always warrant the same contract size — a large funded account might reasonably trade minis while a smaller evaluation account trades the equivalent micro, and cross-contract copying is what makes that possible without manual intervention.
In MimikTrader
MimikTrader supports cross-contract copying across exactly these six pairs. It's a per-follower setting — a follower account's risk profile can be set to trade the micro when the leader trades the mini, or vice versa, and MimikTrader swaps only the symbol (for example NQ → MNQ), preserving the contract month. Quantity is not automatically scaled by the 10:1 ratio: the follower's contract count still comes from its own sizing multiplier, so to get roughly equivalent dollar exposure to a leader's 1 mini contract, the user sets that follower's multiplier to 10 themselves. If a leader trades a contract with no supported micro/mini pair, that follower is skipped rather than copied on the full-size instrument.
Example
A leader trades 1 ES contract. A follower is set to MICRO cross-contract with a multiplier of 10. MimikTrader swaps the symbol from ES to MES and calculates quantity from the multiplier as usual: max(1, ceil(1 × 10)) = 10 MES contracts. That gives the follower roughly the same dollar-per-point exposure as the leader's 1 ES contract — but only because the trader set the multiplier to 10; MimikTrader does not do that scaling automatically.