Futures rollover and expiration dates, computed from the exchange’s rules.

Roll date: CME, “Equity products roll date is the Monday prior to the third Friday of the expiration month.” You can roll whenever you choose. After this date the next contract is customarily treated as the lead month (CME roll dates). The countdown runs to the start of the roll date, midnight ET.

CME lists gold every month. The table shows the Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct and Dec contracts, the months Micro Gold is listed in. CME: GC “Trading terminates at 12:30 p.m. CT on the third last business day of the contract month.” MGC “Trading terminates on the third last business day of the contract month.”

Crude oil contracts stop trading in the month BEFORE the contract month: the November contract ends in October. The CL and MCL rules are quoted in full in the sources table below.

London and New York change their clocks on different Sundays, so for a few weeks a year 4:00 p.m. London is noon ET rather than 11:00 a.m. The time shown is worked out for each date. A last Friday that is a London or US holiday says check CME.

Cboe, for SPX options: expiration date “The third Friday of the expiration month.” (Cboe SPX specifications). Trading in standard SPX options ordinarily stops the business day before.

The market calls this day triple witching: CME’s quarterly equity index futures and Cboe’s standard monthly SPX options end on the same Friday.

Rules read on the exchanges’ own pages on Mon, Oct 19, 2026. Holidays are screened against the NYSE holiday list for 2026 to 2028 and, for the London-fixed crypto contracts, the UK bank holidays. Any date that lands on or counts across a holiday, or falls outside those years, says check CME rather than guess. CME’s holiday calendar is the authority. Exchanges can change their rules, so check your broker before you rely on a date.