All of the NASDAQ derived future contracts are a product of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
[1] CME Group provides live feeds for Nasdaq Futures and these are published on various websites like Bloomberg.com, CNN Money, NasdaqFutures.org.
Futures trading is skyrocketing – CME's E-mini contracts averaged 3.5 million contracts a day in 2008, a 37 percent yearly increase in volume, while equity volume increased only 2 percent for the same period of time.
In the United States broad-based index futures receive special tax treatment under the IRS 60/40 rule.
[14] Also, losses to NASDAQ futures can be carried back up to 3 years, and tax reporting is significantly simpler, as they qualify as Section 1256 Contracts.