Choose from a wide range of products in thousands of possible expirations and spreads. The breadth of products available to our electronic customers continues to grow with the addition of new products on CME Globex. Additionally, the CME Globex electronic distribution network is connected to the Brazilian Exchange, BM&FBOVESPA, for electronic order routing. Other partner exchanges' products are listed directly on CME Globex for trading, including the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), Mercado Mexicano de Derivados (MexDer), the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) and Bursa Malaysia (BDM).

Through a connection to CME Globex, hedge funds can benefit from a single development effort, streamlined customer support, more efficient access to real-time market data and ongoing enhancements like the recent launch of inter-exchange futures spreads. The platform is continuously updated to deliver the high-speed, high-volume capacity, improved options capabilities and new products that hedge funds need. Functionality and capacity continue to grow dramatically to support customers' trading requirements.

• Performance and speed
• Diverse, innovative products
• Central counterparty clearing
• Direct market access
• Fairness, transparency and anonymity
• Innovative functionality
• Global distribution and international hubs
• Market integrity

The CME Globex electronic trading platform offers hedge funds access to the broadest array of futures and options products available on any exchange, virtually around the clock. More importantly, the CME Globex platform is one of the most efficient and robust electronic platforms available today, capable of handling more than 6 billion trades a month with an average 5- to 7-millisecond response time.

CME Group offers futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, FX, agricultural commodities, energy, metals, weather and real estate. In Q1 2011, 83 percent of trading volume came from trades matched electronically on our CME Globex trading platform.

Choose your front end

To access CME Globex, a front-end trading application is required. To access, you can:

• Use a third-party application provided by your broker, FCM or clearing firm
• License your own third-party application from an Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
  • If you are interested in advanced options functionality, visit cmegroup.com/globexpartners to view demos provided by our Options Technology ISV Partners
• Develop your own proprietary front-end system
• Use a CME Group-provided solution (CME EOS Trader)
  
  • If your FCM or ISV does not currently support enhanced options functionality on CME Globex, you may wish to consider CME EOS Trader – a web-based options front-end system that also offers basic futures functionality

Choose your connection type

Once you have selected a front-end trading application, you can connect to CME Globex directly or indirectly using one of the following connections:

Direct Connection

• Customer-managed connectivity options include:
  
  • CME Co-Location Services – Comprised of hosting, connectivity and support services – will launch early 2012 at our new state-of-the-art data center. Visit cmegroup.com/colo for additional information
  • CME LNet – 40Mbps or 100Mbps direct connectivity solution to the CME Globex fiber network via a CME Group-approved facility
  • CME Globex Hubs – connection to redundant data centers in Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Milan, Paris, Singapore, São Paulo, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur
  • Client INTERNETLink – a secure VPN tunnel over the Internet, commissioned in .5Mbps increments
  • CME DIRECTLink – 20Mbps, 40Mbps or 100Mbps (U.S. only)
  • CME EConnect – A client-managed 1Gbps direct connectivity solution to the CME Globex fiber network from the CME Group local points of presence in New York and New Jersey
  • Jackson Direct – 40Mbps or 100Mbps direct connectivity solution to the CME Globex fiber network from the Chicago Board of Trade building at 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604
• CME Group-managed option:
  • CME DIRECTLink – 20Mbps, 40Mbps or 100Mbps (U.S. only)

Indirect Connection

• Connect to CME Globex via your broker, FCM, clearing firm, data center or a facilities provider

CME Global Command Center (GCC) – The GCC, the Market Operations and Customer Service desk for trading on CME Globex, handles inquiries, issues and support requests from registered customer contacts for all components of the CME Globex platform. For more information on the GCC, visit www.cmegroup.com/gcc.

CME Globex Credit Controls (GC2) – This tool provides pre-execution risk controls that enable clearing firm risk administrators to set credit limits. For more information, visit cmegroup.com/gc2.

FirmSoft – A browser-based order management tool that provides real-time information on working and filled CME Globex orders, across multiple firm IDs. With FirmSoft, customers can view and cancel orders. For more information on FirmSoft, visit cmegroup.com/firmsoft.

Drop Copy – This service allows custFomers to receive real-time copies of the CME Globex execution report and reject messages as they are sent over iLink order entry sessions. For more information, visit www.cmegroup.com/dropcopy.

Cancel on Disconnect (COD) – Upon an involuntarily dropped CME Globex to iLink user connection, COD cancels all resting session/day futures and options orders for that session. For more information, visit www.cmegroup.com/cod.

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For more information on the CME Globex platform, visit cmegroup.com/globex.