June 25, 2009

Beginning trade date July 1, 2009, electronic trading hours for grains, oilseeds and ethanol contracts will be expanded in the morning by one hour and fifteen minutes, until 7:15 a.m. The new electronic trading hours will run from 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 a.m. Chicago time Sunday through Friday for futures and options on futures for the following contracts:

• Corn
• Mini-sized Corn
• Wheat
• Mini-sized Wheat
• Soybean
• Mini-sized Soybean
• Soybean Meal
• Soybean Oil
• Oats
• Rough Rice
• Ethanol
• Cash-settled Ethanol

Daytime electronic and open outcry hours will remain from 9:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. weekdays.

The Psychology of Risk Decisions

July 15, 2009

Location: CME Group
Floor 10, Room 1015
World Financial Center
One North End Avenue
New York, NY 10282-1101

5:00pm-6:00pm ET Presentation
6:00pm-7:30pm ET Networking Reception

This event is recommended for risk managers, heads of trading desks at hedge funds, institutions, and trading companies and professional traders.

Conventional market wisdom teaches us that a more thorough understanding of trading statistics and market models is the answer to limiting risk and maximizing return. But is this reliance on a purely numerical approach truly capable of capturing the volatility in human behavior in the face of market uncertainty?

Synthesizing insights from Neuroeconomics, Modern Psychoanalysis, and 15 years of trading experience, Denise K. Shull, President of the consultancy Trader Psyches Inc., will outline more effective ways to accurately perceive, evaluate and judge market and trading risks.