EDUCATIONAL GUIDES FOR COMMODITY FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING 

E-mini Dow ($5), DJIA ($10) and Big Dow DJIA ($25) contracts offer flexible opportunities to trade the large-cap U.S. Equity market.

These index contracts are now available on CME Globex - a robust electronic trading platform delivering fast, efficient and anonymous trading.

This fact card will give you a quick snapshot of who uses these contracts and why, plus the contract specifications you need to know to begin trading.

An Introduction to Trading Futures

An introductory guide to trading futures. If you're a trader who is interested in branching out from equities or cash FX into futures, this guide will provide a great starting point. If you already know something about futures trading, you can jump to any chapter for a review or to the back of the booklet and test your knowledge in our Futures Quiz.

ClearTrade Commodities provides a wide list of educational brochures that will help you advance your trading career. They will teach you the basics about futures trading. You may want to print them out and take them to your favorite easy chair to absorb the information at your own pace.

Please feel free to explore our educational resources and contact us if you require any assistance with any concepts or theories.

Options on futures are one of the most versatile risk management products offered by CME. These powerful tools can be used to protect against adverse price moves in commodity, interest rate, foreign exchange and equity markets. Whether they are traded for purposes of hedging or speculating, the risk involved can be limited to the amount paid up-front for the option. As a result, they have become an increasingly popular hedging vehicle, and they are used today by corporate treasurers, bankers, farmers and equity portfolio managers throughout the world. This piece offers an introduction to options on futures, including sections on vocabulary, pricing fundamentals, options arithmetic, important concepts, and basic strategies.

This reference guide is an overview of the CME Group markets as well as the services and benefits offered by CME Gobex, CME Clearing and ClearPort.

There is a section for each product group that includes an at-a-glance summary of key contract specs for the top products (futures, options and OTC as applicable) in that asset class.

The desire to effectively leverage the growth of E-mini futures has many clients asking, "Do I have the right order placement and/or execution strategy for today's market?" The appropriate order placement strategy, of course, depends on the customer's trading and risk-management goals, which can be unique to their circumstances. To help market participants' identify their optimal execution strategy, we have compiled a comprehensive, quantitative review of our executed orders. Specifically, we examined:

This brochure provides an in-depth description of the exercise and assignment process for options on futures that trade on CME Group-designated contract markets:

• Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)

• Commodity Exchange (COMEX)

• New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)