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CME Group FX Product for Hedge Funds
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Where complex strategies meet deep liquidity

With $3.2 trillion traded daily, FX markets represent the largest asset class in the world. As you look to diversify your portfolio with international assets, manage the depreciation of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies or take advantage of your existing algorithmic trading strategies, CME Group delivers the products, liquidity, transparency and credit risk reduction to manage your global currency exposure. We offer 41 futures contracts and 31 options contracts based on 19 global currencies. This product diversity offers hedge funds the ability to access major currencies as well as emerging market currencies such as the Mexican peso and Russian ruble.

Opportunities growing nearly every day

CME Group is the largest regulated and second largest overall marketplace for FX trading in the world. Our FX volume has grown significantly in recent years, with an average daily notional value of trades that exceeds $100 billion. Our growth from 2004–2007 outpaced the underlying Spot FX growth by a factor of three (CME Group growth = 194 percent, Spot FX growth = 62 percent). BIS 2007 Triennial Survey.

The widest array of all market participants

By offering investment as well as risk-management opportunities, CME Group FX markets attract the world’s largest and most influential banks and hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and active individual traders, among others. This diversity creates access to a variety of liquidity streams that give hedge funds the ability to get in and out of even large positions quickly.

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Mexican peso futures are quickly becoming one of the most popular emerging market FX contracts at CME Group and allow you to assess changes in the relative value of the U.S. dollar compared to the Mexican peso. To view free, real-time prices, visit www.cmegroup.com/equivalents.

Rapidly Accelerating Growth

FX volume has grown significantly in recent years, with average daily volume of over 750,000 contracts worth a notional value representing over $100 billion. CME Group has quickly become one of the premier FX trading venues in the world.

 

Unmatched Electronic Liquidity

CME Group FX Options on CME Globex is the single largest pure electronic liquidity pool for FX options, whether exchange or OTC. You can benefit from the central counterparty clearing and the pure electronic execution, anonymity and price transparency provided over CME Globex. Our platform is growing rapidly (152 percent YOY) and offers a tremendous opportunity for sophisticated FX options traders. We offer both premium and implied volatility quoting and American- or Europeanstyle expiration for FX options on CME Globex.

Dedicated Fee Incentive Programs for Hedge Funds

FX High Velocity CTA/Hedge Fund Program – To qualify, the CTA or Hedge Fund must have more than $50 million in assets under management and exceed 125,000 CME Group eFX sides per month to receive the fee discount. Fees = $0.60/side

FX CTA/Hedge Fund Program – To qualify, the CTA or Hedge Fund must have more than $1 billion in assets under management. Fees = $0.60/side 

For more information on CME Group FX products, please visit www.cmegroup.com/fx.

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