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Live Cattle futures provide a way to:
- Engage in price discovery for the cattle marketplace
- Effectively manage the price risk that merchandisers, producers, processors and others have related to the purchase or sale of cattle
- Evaluate or reflect on both the current and future supply and demand situation for cattle, competing meats and feedgrains
- Take advantage of arbitrage and spread opportunities with other commodities including related meats and grains
- Trade to hedge or speculate based on expectations of directional price, spread movement or volatility in cattle
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View free real-time quotes on a variety of electronically traded CME Group products
Education Series: Using Options to Hedge Commodity Price Risk
Webinars begin Thursday, August 7, 2008. In-person days are August 14 and 15, 2008.
An Introduction to Grain Calendar and Basis Swaps
Learn how cleared OTC agricultural swaps can be of use in today’s volatile commodity markets
Price Limit Update
Get details on price limit increases for CME Group Grain and Oilseed products.
Market Regulation Advisory
- Clearing & Trading Fees
- Performance Bonds/Margins
- Trading Hours
- Product & Vendor Codes
- Future Spreads on CME Globex
- Options Strategies on CME Globex
- Moore Reports
- CME Rulebook
- CBOT Rulebook
- Find-a-Broker
- Glossary
- Knowledge Center Home
- View Intra Day Block Trades
- Wheat Price Rules (PDF)
- BM&F Bovespa Parnership
| Trade Unit | 40,000 pounds | ||
| Settle Method | Delivery | ||
| Point Size | 1 point = $.01 per hundred pounds = $4.00 | ||
| Strike Price Interval | |||
| Strike | |||
| Limits/Price Banding | See Floor Venue limits. | ||
| Tick Size (Minimum Fluctuation) |
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| Trading Hours | Mon-Thurs 9:05 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Shutdown period from 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Friday Close 1:30 p.m. LTD(12:00 p.m.) | ||
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| Product Codes | Clearing=48 Ticker=LC GLOBEX=LE | ||
| Minimum Block Size | |||
| Product Calendar | Nine (9) months in the Even Monthly Cycle: Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec. View current product listings |
| Trade Unit | 40,000 pounds | ||
| Settle Method | Delivery | ||
| Point (Tick) Size | 1 point = $.01 per hundred pounds = $4.00 | ||
| Strike Price Interval | |||
| Strike | |||
| Limits/Price Banding | $.030/lb, $1200 | ||
| Minimum Fluctuation |
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| Trading Hours | 9:05 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | ||
| Listed | 1.5 cents per pound ($600 per contract) (150 points) above or below the previous day's settlement price. | ||
| Product Codes | Clearing=48 Ticker=LC GLOBEX=LE | ||
| Minimum Block Size | |||
| Product Calendar | Nine (9) months in the Even Monthly Cycle: Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec. View current product listings |
Education Series: Using Options to Hedge Commodity Price Risk
Webinars begin Thursday, August 7, 2008. In-person days are August 14 and 15, 2008.
An Introduction to Grain Calendar and Basis Swaps
Learn how cleared OTC agricultural swaps can be of use in today’s volatile commodity markets
Price Limit Update
Get details on price limit increases for CME Group Grain and Oilseed products.
Market Regulation Advisory
- Clearing & Trading Fees
- Performance Bonds/Margins
- Trading Hours
- Product & Vendor Codes
- Future Spreads on CME Globex
- Options Strategies on CME Globex
- Moore Reports
- CME Rulebook
- CBOT Rulebook
- Find-a-Broker
- Glossary
- Knowledge Center Home
- View Intra Day Block Trades
- Wheat Price Rules (PDF)
- BM&F Bovespa Parnership
| Contract Month | Product Code | First Trade Date | Last Trade Date | Settlement Date | |
| AUG08 | LCQ08 | 03/01/2007 |  |
08/29/2008 | 08/29/2008 |
| OCT08 | LCV08 | 09/17/2007 | |
10/31/2008 | 10/31/2008 |
| DEC08 | LCZ08 | 09/17/2007 | |
12/31/2008 | 12/31/2008 |
| FEB09 | LCG09 | 09/17/2007 | |
02/27/2009 | 02/27/2009 |
| APR09 | LCJ09 | 11/01/2007 | |
04/30/2009 | 04/30/2009 |
| JUN09 | LCM09 | 01/02/2008 | |
06/30/2009 | 06/30/2009 |
| AUG09 | LCQ09 | 05/01/2008 | |
08/31/2009 | 08/31/2009 |
| OCT09 | LCV09 | 05/01/2008 | |
10/30/2009 | 10/30/2009 |
| DEC09 | LCZ09 | 07/01/2008 | |
12/31/2009 | 12/31/2009 |
| Contract Month | Product Code | First Trade Date | Last Trade Date> | Settlement Date | |
| FEB10 | LCG10 | 09/02/2008 | |
02/26/2010 | 02/26/2010 |
Education Series: Using Options to Hedge Commodity Price Risk
Webinars begin Thursday, August 7, 2008. In-person days are August 14 and 15, 2008.
An Introduction to Grain Calendar and Basis Swaps
Learn how cleared OTC agricultural swaps can be of use in today’s volatile commodity markets
Price Limit Update
Get details on price limit increases for CME Group Grain and Oilseed products.
Market Regulation Advisory
- Clearing & Trading Fees
- Performance Bonds/Margins
- Trading Hours
- Product & Vendor Codes
- Future Spreads on CME Globex
- Options Strategies on CME Globex
- Moore Reports
- CME Rulebook
- CBOT Rulebook
- Find-a-Broker
- Glossary
- Knowledge Center Home
- View Intra Day Block Trades
- Wheat Price Rules (PDF)
- BM&F Bovespa Parnership
| Delivery Notice Reports |
- Clearing & Trading Fees
- Performance Bonds/Margins
- Trading Hours
- Product & Vendor Codes
- Future Spreads on CME Globex
- Options Strategies on CME Globex
- Moore Reports
- CME Rulebook
- CBOT Rulebook
- Find-a-Broker
- Glossary
- Knowledge Center Home
- View Intra Day Block Trades
- Wheat Price Rules (PDF)
- BM&F Bovespa Parnership