CME Group Futures Trading

CME Energy Futures and Options

Trade global benchmark products and take advantage of tight bid/ask spreads in the world's most extensive and liquid energy marketplace.

Energy Futures Contracts

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• WTI Futures and Options

  Gain direct exposure to the crude oil market using West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Light Sweet Crude Oil futures, the world’s most liquid oil contract. WTI Crude Oil futures and options are the most efficient way to trade the largest light, sweet crude oil blend. Micro contracts are also available.

• Natural Gas Futures and Options

  Tap into one of the largest physical commodity futures contracts in the world by volume. Customize your trading strategies with American, calendar spread, European or daily options. Micro contracts are also available.

CME Metals Futures and Options

Express a view on both the precious and industrial metals markets or trade inter-market metal spreads. Explore the variety of micro contracts, allowing you to add more precision to your metals portfolio.

CME FX Futures and Options

Averaging trillions of dollars in transactions each day, the foreign exchange (FX) market is where currencies are bought, sold and exchanged. There are many ways to pursue opportunities in the world' s largest market, and FX futures offer many advantages over trading spot or over-the-counter FX. Discover the liquidity, nearly 24-hour access and security of trading standardized FX futures on a regulated exchange.

FX Futures Contracts

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• EUR/USD Futures

  The most actively traded currencies in the world, the euro and U.S. dollar are underwritten by more than $1 trillion in goods and services trade annually.

• AUD/USD Futures

  Australia’s resource-driven economy is heavily dependent on global growth and commodity prices. FX futures offer precise risk management of AUD/USD exposure.

• GBP/USD Futures

  One of the most actively traded currency pairs in the world, the British Pound and U.S. Dollar futures offer traders the access to movement in this liquid market.

• CAD/USD Futures

  Canada’s resource-driven economy is heavily dependent on global growth and commodity prices. FX futures offer more precise risk management of CAD/USD exposure through firm pricing, convenient monthly and quarterly futures and weekly, monthly and quarterly options.

• JPY/USD Futures

  Each year hundreds of billions of goods and services are exchanged between the U.S. and Japan, providing a natural and liquid market for Japanese Yen futures.

CME Interest Rate Futures and Options

Use Interest Rate futures and options to manage exposure to U.S. Treasury yields, global money markets mortgage rates in a safe, capital-efficient way.

CME Group offers two sizes of price-quoted Treasury futures, as well as yield-quoted Treasury futures. Explore trading flexibility with standard-sized price quoted futures, micro-sized price quoted futures and yield-quoted futures.

Interest Rate Futures Contracts

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• 2-Year Futures

  For trading at the short-end of the curve, 2-Year Treasury futures provide a liquid choice for managing exposure. Micros are also available.

• 5-Year Futures

  Dial in your exposure on the Treasury curve with 5-Year T-Note futures, built for precise exposure in between the two other major points on the curve (the 2-Yr and the 10-Yr). Micros are also available.

• 10-Year Futures

  Benchmark Treasury exposure, the most liquid area of the curve for traders. Micros are also available.

• Treasury Bond Futures

  For the highest duration in Treasury markets today, look to 30-Year T-Bond futures for exposure. Micros are also available.

Short-Term Rates

CME Group also has short-term Interest Rate (STIR) futures with products such as SOFR and Fed Funds futures.

CME Agriculture Futures and Options

Hedge your price risk in the expanding global Agricultural marketplace with benchmark products – Wheat, Corn and Soybean futures and options. Find new opportunities to execute event-driven trades with precision using liquid, actively-traded Agricultural contracts.

Agriculture Futures Contracts

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• Corn Futures

  Fine-tune your agricultural portfolio with Corn futures, the largest Agricultural futures contract in the world.

• Wheat Futures

  Develop hedging strategies, manage your risk and access deep liquidity using Chicago Wheat futures and options, the global industry standard and the most actively traded wheat benchmarks in the world.

• Soybean Futures

  As the world’s largest source of animal protein feed, soybeans are one of the most important crops around the globe.

• Soybean Meal Futures

  Soybean meal is used by feed manufacturers as a prime ingredient in high-protein animal feed for poultry and livestock. It is also further processed into human foods, such as soy grits, flour and prepared foods, and is a key component in meat or dairy substitutes, like soymilk and tofu.

• Soybean Oil Futures

  Because of the use of soybean byproducts for animal feed, the domestic and foreign demand for soybeans is closely aligned with the livestock and poultry industry.