Finance Courses
Learn about securities futures and commodities futures through Interactive Brokers’ and CME Group’s vast selection of educational courses, including defining what these financial products are, as well as how to trade and invest in them. These courses explore introductory concepts such as ‘contango’ and ‘backwardation’, futures margin, mechanics of the futures market, as well as futures pricing. Also available are courses that focus on futures fundamental analyses for a variety of futures-related products such as interest rate futures, energy futures, agricultural futures, and metal futures. More specialized courses center on CME Micro WTI Crude Oil Futures, South American soybean futures, as well as an introduction to grains and oilseeds.
This course provides content to suit investors with different levels of knowledge about the futures market. Investors new to the world of futures trading can use this introductory course to learn key industry concepts and how to find information using the trading tools within TWS.
Through this course, we’ll cover the essentials of what agricultural commodities are, how they’re traded, and the types of participants active in the markets. We’ll also explore some of the major risks these products face, and official reports that can provide some ways that traders and investors can anticipate, and generally mitigate them. We’ll also provide some real-world examples of how agricultural commodities can impact financial markets, economies, and global trade.
Curious about what futures can bring to your portfolio? Discover 8 advantages you can enjoy from day one when you insert futures into your trading strategy in this easy-to-complete, multi-part online course.
New to futures or looking for a refresher? This course is designed for you. Dive into the basics of futures contracts, how contracts trade on a futures exchange, the different ways customers use these instruments and the benefits that futures provide. Gain a stronger understanding of how futures work and why more market participants are using derivatives in their trading strategies today.
This course will provide an overview of various products including Micro FX Futures, Gold, Silver, Copper, and more.
As a central counterparty, CME Clearing acts as the buyer to every seller and seller to every buyer to ensure the financial security of the marketplace and reduce clearing participants counterparty risk and achieve operational and financial efficiency. Gain an understanding of how the Clearing market structure is defined, risk management policies and procedures, and the activities of CME Clearing.
CME Group (NYMEX) offers numerous cash-settled futures and option contracts for various electricity markets across North America. The contracts cover both hubs and zones in regional transmission organization (RTO) and independent system operator (ISO) service areas. Learn how this dynamic market is structured and how market participants use power contracts to mitigate price risk in the day-ahead and real-time markets.
The structure of the natural gas market has evolved over time and become one of the most competitive, efficient, transparent, and liquid natural gas futures and options market in the world. Explore the basics of natural gas infrastructure, key impacts like seasonality that affect supply and demand, as well as hedging physical product using futures and options products.
Lumber futures and options provide risk management instruments for a constantly evolving marketplace. Learn more about this smaller sized contract designed to offer a more precise and accessible tool to manage price risk and tailor trading strategies. This course discusses Lumber future and options, their delivery process, and their common uses.
Today’s energy crude oil market is truly global. From West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to Brent and DME Oman, the crude oil market fuels many of the world’s leading economies and impact nearly every nation. Energy crude oil futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk. Explore the key concepts and structure of today’s energy markets, including the factors that affect supply and demand and move prices. Learn how to use these instruments to hedge exposure and unlock opportunities.
The livestock complex consists of Lean Hogs, Feeder cattle, and Live Cattle. Livestock futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk and help put food on the table for a growing global population. Gain an understanding of the fundamentals that affect supply and demand in the livestock markets. Find out how futures and options provide critical price discovery and risk management roles for a variety of market participants, from farmers, processors, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, traders and more. Learn about the ways these contracts can be utilized in your portfolio.
CME Group is launching a new, smaller sized option contracts on its global WTI Crude Oil benchmark. Micro WTI Crude Oil options will be 1/10th the size of the standard sized WTI Crude Oil option, providing market participants an efficient and cost-effective method to gain exposure to the crude oil market.
Great ideas transcens asset classes. CME Group is launching a new, smaller-sized futures contract on its global benchmark, WTI Crude Oil.
Learn about the E-mini Nasdaq-100, E-mini Dow, and E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts.
Fundamental analysis is the process of determining the model price of a futures contract, now and in the future, using factors like micro economic data, macro-economic data, and industry financial conditions.
Learn about micro futures and futures options on CME Group’s Micro WTI Crude Oil contracts, and understand how they can be used to trade and hedge with respect to the price of crude oil.
Today's agriculture markets are highly complex. Agricultural grain futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk and help put food on the table for a growing global population. Gain an understanding of the fundamentals that affect supply and demand in the grain and oilseed markets. Find out how futures and options provide critical price discovery and risk management roles for a variety of market participants, from farmers, ranchers, processors, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, traders and more. Discover the ways these contracts can fit into your portfolio.
Gain an understanding of how buyers and sellers of grains and oilseeds utilize futures and options to hedge their position to manage price risk. This course will enhance the hedger’s understanding of the different strategies available as well as how the basis affects prices.
