CHICAGO, March 13,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's
leading derivatives marketplace, today announced the first day of
trading of event contracts on Bitcoin futures.
"Our new event contracts on Bitcoin futures provide
a limited-risk, highly transparent way for a wide range of
investors to access the bitcoin market via a fully
regulated exchange," said Tim
McCourt, Global Head of Equity and FX Products at CME Group.
"These cash-settled, daily expiring contracts will further
complement our existing suite of 10 event contracts tied to our
benchmark futures markets, which have traded more than 550,000
contracts to-date. In addition, these new contracts will offer an
innovative, lower-cost way for investors to trade their views on
the up or down price moves of bitcoin."
CME Group offers event contracts on a growing number of its
benchmark futures markets, including gold, silver, copper, crude
oil, natural gas, E-mini S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq-100, E-mini Dow
Jones Industrial Average, E-mini Russell 2000 and euro-U.S. dollar
foreign exchange futures. Valued up to $20 per contract, these daily options on futures
enable participants to know their maximum profit or loss when
entering a trade.
CME Group event contracts are listed with and subject to the
rules of CME. For more information on this product, please see:
www.cmegroup.com/eventcontracts.
As the world's leading 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.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board
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Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York
Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity
Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe
LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively. The S&P 500 Index is a
product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI").
"S&P®", "S&P 500®", "SPY®", "SPX®", US 500 and The 500 are
trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC; Dow
Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or
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Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored,
endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI
makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in
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