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Expanded Trading Hours Since April 14, 2008

The CME Group Grain and Oilseed complex serves as the global benchmark for commodity pricing and risk management. Our markets offer a large and expanding liquidity pool and a triple dose of benefits – the benefits of options, trading on CME Globex, and financial integrity of CME Group markets.

 

Trading Hours (Central Time)

CME Globex Electronic Trading Platform: 6:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m. (Sunday through Friday)
CME Globex and Trading Floor: 9:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. (Monday through Friday)

 

 

Corn Oats Soybeans Soybean Oil
Wheat Rough Rice Soybean Meal  

 

Benefits of options

  • Additional price risk management alternatives
  • Ability to adjust market risk exposure to a level that meets your needs
  • Price protection and the opportunity to improve your purchase or selling price
  • Trading opportunities based on price movement, spreads or market volatility

 

Benefits of CME Globex

  • Dedicated market makers
          Continuous, live bid andoffer quotes
          Enhanced liquidity
          Request-for-Quote functionality
          Unprecedented access to market opportunities
  • Millisecond response time
          Near instantaneous fills
          Improved execution efficiency
  • Market transparency
         Top bids and offers - view depth of the market
         All participants see and have access to the same prices
  • Anonymity
         Of traders and firms in all bids, offers and execution reports
  • Automated bookkeeping
         Straight through execution, processing and instantaneous clearing
  • Futures and options on one platform
         Global distribution makes customer access relatively easy
         1,100 direct connections in 86 countries

 

Benefits of financial integrity: the security of CME Clearing

As the counterparty to every trade, CME Clearing settles accounts, clears trades, collects and maintains performance bonds/margins, regulates delivery and reports data. It is the world’s largest derivatives clearing facility, processing more than two billion trades per year and ultimately ensuring the financial integrity of all market participants’ positions.