CHICAGO, May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced
the successful launch of its new Micro E-mini futures on the
S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial
Average indexes, which became available for trading today.
Micro E-mini futures are one-tenth the size of CME Group's
existing E-mini equity index futures. The smaller size allows
active traders of all sizes to more nimbly execute equity trading
strategies, scale index exposure up or down or hedge existing
equity portfolio positions.
More active traders are participating in the futures market than
ever before. In 2018, CME Group's non-institutional trading volume
grew 27 percent compared to the previous year, with active traders
averaging 660,000 contracts each day. Globally, active trader
participation in CME Group markets grew 30 percent in Asia and 36 percent in Europe last year.
Micro E-mini equity index futures are listed by and subject to
the rules of CME and CBOT. For more information on how to get
started with trading futures, including free educational resources
like a trading simulator and daily market commentary videos, please
visit cmegroup.com/microeminis.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform,
fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on
the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks
of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile
Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima, and Traiana are trademarks of
BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD, TriOptima AB, and Traiana,
Inc., respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones
Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard &
Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as
the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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