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Lean Hog futures provide a way to:

  • Engage in price discovery for the lean hog marketplace
  • Effectively manage the price risk that merchandisers, producers, processors and others have related to the purchase or sale of lean hogs
  • Evaluate or reflect on both the current and future supply and demand situation for lean hogs, 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 lean hogs

 

Things to Know:

  • Lean Hog futures are a cash-settled 40,000 pound contract
  • You can view free electronic real-time price quotes on Lean Hog futures, including:
    • Best bids and offers
    • Daily trading activity
    • Outright and spread markets
  • Contracts trade virtually 24 hours a day on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and side by side during regular trading hours on the CME Group trading floor
  • Electronically traded Lean Hog futures offer:
    • Direct participation in the trading process
    • Greater pricing efficiency
    • Millisecond response time
    • Designated market makers
    • Implied spread functionality
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