Futures broker Plus500 is expanding again, this time with the launch of Single Stock Futures (SSFs), giving customers another way to trade the shares of major US companies.
Single stock futures trading provides traders with access to CME Group-listed contracts, including Micro Single Stock Futures, allowing traders to gain exposure to individual equities through futures rather than buying and selling the underlying shares.
Plus500 said SSFs can offer greater capital efficiency through margining and built-in leverage, while customers can take both long and short positions. The contracts also offer extended trading hours beyond the standard US equity market session, allowing traders to respond to company and market news outside normal hours.
The company plans to expand the range of Single Stock Futures available over time, depending on customer demand, liquidity and wider market conditions.
David Zruia, CEO of Plus500, said the launch was “a further step in enhancing our futures offering and giving Plus500 customers greater flexibility to trade some of the leading US stocks.”
He added that it builds on momentum across Plus500’s non-OTC operations, including the US prediction markets offering launched earlier in 2026.
The move is significant as Plus500 continues to diversify beyond its traditional OTC and CFD business and expand its presence in the US regulated futures market.
Share Price Outperformance
Despite the new product, UK stock broker Peel Hunt maintained its Hold recommendation on Plus500 following the announcement, alongside a 3,400p target price.
In its research note published today, Peel Hunt highlighted the launch as a further step in broadening Plus500’s US product range and scaling its US operations.
The broker also pointed to the structural differences between SSFs and conventional share trading, including margin-based capital efficiency, leverage, the ability to go long or short and longer trading sessions.
Peel Hunt said the launch builds on momentum in Plus500’s non-OTC business, specifically highlighting its US prediction markets product introduced earlier this year. It noted that Plus500 intends to broaden the SSF range according to demand, liquidity and market conditions.
The expansion represents another part of Plus500’s strategy to build a more diversified global trading business, with futures, options and prediction markets increasingly complementing its established CFD operations.
Our View
Plus500 has always been at the forefront of new markets. They are one of the nimblest brokers, despite their size, with a relatively small employee pool. For instance, as prediction markets gained popularity in the US, they quickly partnered with Kalshi to offer both financial event contracts and sports prediction markets.
In the UK, where Plus500 is listed on the London Stock Exchange, they are one of the largest FCA-regulated CFD brokers where traders can trade stocks, commodities, futures, forex and indices on margin. However, in the US, CFDs (contracts for difference) are not permitted as they are an OTC product. In the US, if traders want leverage on stocks, they have to use margin trading (where a broker lends a customer money to buy (or sell) stocks.
Plus500 is also a marketing machine and excels in onboarding new customers for new markets. Despite the recent sell-off from all-time share price highs of over 5,000p, I wouldn’t want to be a seller of the stock…
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