{"id":64154,"date":"2026-05-20T20:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/?p=64154"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:53:15","slug":"important-update-spot-eneries-contract-specification-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/trading-schedule\/important-update-spot-eneries-contract-specification-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Update: Spot Energies Contract Specification Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Effective from market opening on Monday, 25 May 2026, IC Markets (EU) Ltd will implement updates to the contract specifications for the following Spot Energies instruments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BRENT\u00a0 (\u00a0XBRUSD)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WTI (\u00a0XTIUSD)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NATGAS (\u00a0XNGUSD)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes will ensure greater consistency across trading platforms, with the new minimum lot size set to 0.01 for all affected instruments.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Important Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Expert Advisors (EAs): Clients using automated trading strategies should review and adjust their settings before the changes take effect.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open Positions &amp; Pending Orders:<u>\u00a0<\/u>Existing trades and orders will continue under the updated specifications. No adjustments on margin or leverage under the new minimum lot size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Updated specifications will be available on our website under Range of Products \u2192 Product Details.<br \/><br \/>For further assistance, please contact us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:support@icmarkets.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support@icmarkets.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective from market opening on Monday, 25 May 2026, IC Markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":64157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trading-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64158,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64154\/revisions\/64158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icmarkets.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}