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E-mini Copper futures provide direct exposure to global copper pricing with a smaller-sized contract than standard copper futures. They also offer opportunities for portfolio diversification, as well as:

  • Access to a highly liquid metals market
  • The benefits of central clearing, including guaranteed counterparty credit and segregation of customer funds
  • Extensive trading opportunities, as prices are sensitive to cyclical industries such as construction and industrial machinery manufacturing, as well as to political situations in countries where copper mining is government-controlled

Things to know about the contracts:

  • Half the size of the standard contract – 12,500 pounds
  • Cash-settled
  • Traded solely on the CME Globex electronic trading platform, around the clock, around the world

About copper
Copper, one of the oldest and easily mined commodities, is the world's third most widely used metal, after iron and aluminum. Five thousand years ago, people learned to alloy copper with tin, producing bronze and giving rise to a new age.

Copper today is primarily used in highly cyclical industries such as construction and industrial machinery manufacturing. Profitable extraction of the metal depends on cost-efficient high-volume mining techniques, and supply is sensitive to the political situation particularly in those countries where copper mining is a government-controlled enterprise.