FX Products
CME Group is the world’s premiere provider of foreign exchange (FX) futures and options on futures products and the largest regulated market for FX trading. The CME Group FX market serves as an effective and efficient means of risk transfer for the global FX market, bringing together a broad array of client segments by offering investment as well as risk management opportunities. CME Group's customers benefit from dealing anonymously in a fully transparent market, where large and small customers have equal access to the same prices and same deep pool of liquidity. CME Group’s customers also benefit from the central clearing mechanism that eliminates counterparty risk.

CME Group FX products provide the tools and resources to hedge foreign currency risk, facilitating cross-border trade and commerce while mitigating the risks to profitability due to fluctuations in the FX market. The CME Group FX market attracts both buy- and sell-side investors, including commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, commodity trading advisors, proprietary trading firms, currency overlay managers and individual investors.

Today, CME Group offers 41 individual FX futures and 31 options products, covering major currency pairs as well as an array of emerging market currencies, with a daily notional trading value surpassing $80 billion. Over 90 percent of CME FX products are traded electronically on the CME Globex platform, ensuring that business is transacted quickly and safely with maximum operational efficiency.

Benefits of Trading CME Group FX Futures and Options:

  • The world's largest regulated FX marketplace with more than $80 billion in daily liquidity
  • Diverse universe of market participants
  • With fast and efficient trading virtually 24 hours a day, CME Globex was named the best electronic futures trading platform by FX Week in 2004 and 2005
  • Fully global product suite of 41 futures and 31 options contracts on 19 currencies
  • Fair, transparent and anonymous trading
  • CME Clearing matches and settles all trades and guarantees the creditworthiness of every transaction that takes place in our markets

To view real-time quotes for CME FX products, click here.

News
CME Group to Offer Volatility-Based Quoting Convention for FX Options
CME Group announced its plans to offer volatility-based quoting on six of its FX options on futures contracts: Euro FX, British pound, Japanese yen, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Australian dollar. Volatility-based quoting is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2008 and will be available exclusively for FX options trading on the CME Globex® electronic platform. To learn more visit:
www.cme.com/fxvoloptions

CME Group FX Wraps Up Another Record Month
CME Group FX continued its momentum in November 2007 with average daily volume of over 640,000 contracts traded worth over $83 billion in daily liquidity, up 26 percent compared with November 2006. FX Options averaged 24,336 contracts per day, up 53 percent compared with the year-ago period. To read more about CME Group November volume, click here.

CME Group Appoints Lam as Director and Head of Asian FX Sales
Today CME Group announced that is has expanded its FX team by appointing K.C. Lam as Director and Head of Asian FX Sales. This new position was created to better serve current and prospective Asia-based customers with a dedicated CME Group FX resource and is also part of an exchange-wide effort to build its presence in the region. To read more about the addition of KC Lam to CME Group, click here.

New Advanced FX Online Class is Now Available
Take your trading to the next level with "Advanced Strategies for Foreign Exchange Traders". This free online class introduces you to advanced FX trading strategies and concepts. In a modular, flexible format, this course develops your understanding of trading strategies including long and short futures positions, hedging, options on futures, and more advanced spreading strategies. To register today for this free online class, visit: www.cme.com/advancedfx.

CME Group FX Wraps Up A Record July
CME Group FX continued its momentum in July 2007 with average daily volume of over 628,000 contracts traded worth $77 billion in daily liquidity, up 68 percent compared with July 2007. Electronic FX volume on CME Globex averaged 585,000 contracts per day, up 75 percent compared with the year-ago period. To read more about CME Group set monthly and July volume, click here.

Free Real-Time Quotes on FX American-Style Options
CME offers free real-time quotes on five of the recently listed FX American-Style Options. Quotes are now available for CME British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Euro FX, Japanese Yen and Swiss Franc options contracts. Note: All FX options prices on CME Globex are executable.

To view free live quotes on CME American-Style and European-Style options, click here.

For more information, please call CME Customer Support at 312-930-2316.

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