CME Technology SPCTR futures provide a quick, efficient way to access the expanding technology sector of the market using a single, electronically traded futures contract. Based on the S&P 500 Technology and Telecom Sector Indices, these contracts are designed to provide an effective tool for managing exposure to technology-related industries like Internet software communications equipment, computers and peripherals, and wireless telecom services. Their versatile design makes them attractive to portfolio and hedge fund managers, asset allocation-minded investors and arbitrageurs for use in tilting, spreading and cash/futures and exchange traded funds/future arbitraging strategies.

Benefits

• Fast, efficient way to access and trade technology-oriented companies of the S&P 500 Index to gain sector exposure
• Less capital required upfront to trade
• Opportunity to reduce the risk associated with technology investments and guard against portfolio losses during bear markets
• Potentially lower trading costs than trading a basket of futures or Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
• Open, fair and anonymous markets
• Electronically traded on the CME Globex^® platform, offering speed, reliability, anonymity and trading nearly around the clock, around the world
• Guarantee of counterparty credit and central clearing by CME Clearing

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