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Closing Your Position

Closing Your Position

Closing Your Position After establishing a futures position, the primary decision you will make is when to close the position. To close an open position, ...
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Market Bites: Stocks Bounce

Market Bites: Stocks Bounce

What you need to know: -Stocks are rebounding after historic losses.  -The Trump administration is struggling to speed up testing.  -Many states are closing all ...
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Market Bites: Coronovirus

Market Bites: Coronavirus & Stimulus

What you need to know: -Stocks are struggling to recover from Monday’s plunge.  -Bank executives are headed to the White House.  -Trump is slated to ...
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Placing a Futures Order

Placing A Futures Order

 Placing A Futures Order Futures orders are placed by using a broker’s trade execution platform. Using the broker of your choice, a trader will ...
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Futures Order Types

Futures Order Types

Futures Order Types Orders for futures contracts can be submitted to an exchange with different conditions specified. The conditions are referred to as order types. ...
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What Happens after Submitting an Order

What Happens After Submitting An Order

What Happens After Submitting An Order As a trader, when you click to enter an order, there are many processes that occur to have your ...
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Getting your Ironbeam Account Started

Getting Your Ironbeam Account Started

Getting Started with Your Broker The futures exchange is where futures orders are received, and buy and sell orders are matched, to create “the market.” ...
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Micro E-Mini Futures Course: Part 3

Micro E-Mini Futures Course: Part 3

Managing Micro E-Mini Futures Expiration Every futures contract has an expiration date. CME Group’s Micro E-mini futures contracts expire on a quarterly basis, settling to ...
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Micro E-Mini Futures Course: Part 2

Micro E-Mini Futures Course: Part 2

Hedging with the Micro E-Mini Futures A trader purchased an out-of-the-money, E-mini S&P 500 call option. As you know, the underlying future for this option ...
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Micro E-Mini Futures Course: Part 1

Micro E-Mini Futures Course: Part 1

This course will provide insight into the Micro E-Mini futures, including a size comparison to classic E-Mini contracts, a look at enhanced exposure and the ...
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CME Introduces Shanghai Gold Futures

CME Introduces Shanghai Gold Futures

In Q4 2019, CME Group will launch two financially settled Shanghai Gold Futures, denominated in U.S. dollar or Chinese renminbi. Trading the new product will ...
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Expiration Time Change for CME FX Options

Expiration Time Change for CME FX Options

Everything about CME FC options remains the same, except the time they expire. Expiry is changing from 2PM Chicago to 10AM New York Time on ...
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Memorial Day Futures Trading Schedule

Memorial Day Holiday Trading Hours

Memorial Day Holiday Trading Hours The Memorial Day holiday is observed by the CME Group. See below for their Memorial Day Holiday Schedule: May 26, ...
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Micro E-Mini Futures are now live

Micro E-Mini Futures Are Now Live

Micro E-Mini S&P 500 Hourly Chart Since Launch This chart is provided by the Ironbeam trading platform. CME’s Successful Product Debut Trading on the all-new ...
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Micro E Mini Futures FAQs

Micro E-Mini Futures FAQs

Related Articles: Micro E-Mini Futures. Launching May 6th.  Micro E-Mini Futures Contract Specs. When will the Micro E-Mini products be listed for trading? CME Group ...
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Intro to Crude Oil

Intro to Trading Crude Oil Futures

Crude oil is one of the most popularly traded commodity futures contracts. The crude market is known for being especially active. Notorious with investors around ...
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Micro E Minis Blog

Intro to E-Mini Futures Day Trading

The E-Mini futures have become one of the staple methods of day trading over the years due to nearly round-the-clock trading hours, low margin requirements, ...
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Micro E-Mini Futures

Micro E-Mini Futures Contract Specs

Please see below for the Preliminary Contract Specifications of the new Micro E-Mini Futures being launched by CME Group on May 6th. For more information, ...
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Micro E-Mini Futures Launching May 6

Micro E-Mini Futures. Launching May 6th.

An expanded offering, a smaller-sized contract. The CME Group just recently announced their plans to launch Micro E-Mini Futures contracts. Micro E-Mini futures fit seamlessly ...
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Individual Exchange Membership

Individual Exchange Membership

One of the biggest costs to high-volume and frequency traders is the per-contract exchange fee that is charged by the exchange. Many of these traders ...
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