The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is one of the largest and most diverse financial exchanges in the world, allowing for the trading of futures and options across a wide array of asset classes, including agriculture, energy, metals, and financial instruments.
CME Group Inc. is a prominent global markets company, composed of four principal exchanges— the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the Commodity Exchange (COMEX)—enabling investors and traders to hedge and tap into risk management assets and strategies.
An independent agency of the U.S. federal government that regulates the U.S. derivatives markets, which include futures, swaps, and certain kinds of options.
The International Monetary Market (IMM) is a division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange that specializes in trading futures contracts on various financial instruments including U.S. Treasury bills, foreign currency, certificates of deposit, and Eurodollar deposits.
Canada's oldest stock exchange and second-largest in dollar value of trading, known for trading stocks, bonds, futures, and options through a specialist system combined with automated systems.
The OEX, pronounced as three letters, is Wall Street shorthand for the Standard & Poor's 100 stock index, composed of stocks for which options are traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
Program trading refers to the institutional buying or selling of all stocks in a program or index on which options and/or futures are traded, often resulting in significant stock market fluctuations.
Stock index futures are financial derivatives that blend traditional commodity futures trading characteristics with those of securities trading. They utilize composite stock indexes to enable investors to speculate on general market performance or to hedge long or short positions.
