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CME Product Overviews

Trading Course

This course will provide an overview of various products including Micro FX Futures, Gold, Silver, Copper, and more.

Contributed by CME Group

All investors can now access the US Treasury market – the largest interest rate market in the world – to hedge existing risk or express an opinion on US interest rates. Yield futures, from CME Group, provide market participants an efficient and cost-effective method to trade the US Treasury benchmark rates.

Gold futures, ticker symbol GC, are among the most widely traded futures products worldwide. Although Gold futures are contracts for physically-deliverable commodities, these products are also critical tools for diversifying portfolios and mitigating risk. Traditionally, gold has been seen as a “safe haven” in times of global economic or political uncertainty, and as such, prices may often move inverse to the U.S. dollar, treasury bonds, and U.S. stock indexes.

Copper is one of the most influential physical commodities in the world. Because this metal is needed for almost all construction and manufacturing projects, the copper market is even used as a barometer to measure the health of the economy, often referred to as “Dr. Copper”.

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