The best way to access CME electronic options is through CME Globex Partners. Comprised of ISV and FCM front-end trading system providers, CME Globex Partners offer enhanced electronic access to the CME options markets. For more information, contact your FCM or ISV directly.

If your FCM or ISV does not currently support enhanced option functionality on CME Globex, you may want to consider CME EOS Trader™, a web-based front-end system with comprehensive electronic access to options trading for CME Interest Rate, Equity, FX, and Commodity products, as well as NYMEX Energy products.

The new release of CME EOS Trader includes multiple additional windows and functions as well as enhancements and features that allow you to easily customize the look and feel of the application. Learn more with the CME EOS Trader New Functionality Overview (PDF).

Experience CME EOS Trader

NEW CME EOS Trader demo
E-Livestock Options demo

CME EOS Trader makes trading CME Options electronically easier than ever. Connect over the internet. Enjoy direct access through CME Globex, virtually 24 hours a day. Get unsurpassed liquidity and transparency. And take advantage of enhanced functionality not available on the legacy CITRIX System.

Benefits of CME EOS Trader:

• Access to user-defined spreads - Define and trade unique combinations and instruments on the fly
• Credit controls - Administrator access to a variety of risk management parameters
• Fast order entry
• Shared order book
• Real-time market data
• Basic futures order entry
• Customizable workspace
• DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) Link to Microsoft Excel
• Automated bookkeeping feature with clearing and account balances

CME Options. Always the Smart Move

Continually defining the cutting edge of financial trading technology with unsurpassed speed and system responsiveness, CME Globex is the most robust platform for trading options on futures across asset classes.

Take advantage of these great benefits of CME options on CME Globex:

• Greater flexibility and access - Because CME Globex offers much of the same options functionality across major asset classes, the strategies and algorithms you are using now for one asset class can easily be utilized to take advantage of any underlying market.
• Reduced fees and waivers - Effective across all asset classes through December 31, 2007
• Unmatched performance and speed - Trades are executed and instantly confirmed back anywhere in the world. Benefit from easier monitoring of trading activity and positions.
• Market integrity - CME Clearing acts as the counterparty to every trade.
• Liquidity virtually 24 hours a day - Our diverse universe of global participants and dedicated market makers provides liquidity and creates trading opportunities around the clock.
• Fully transparent and competitive environment - Best bids and offers continually displayed on screen.
• Free real-time options quotes: CME Eurodollars Options, CME Livestock Options, CME E-mini Options, CME FX European Style Options, CME FX American Style Options

To learn more about CME options or connecting to an enhanced option functionality front-end system, please contact: