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Explore the futures and options markets with a variety of resources – including courses, webinars, and videos – designed to help you at each stage of your trading journey.

Whether you are brand new to derivatives, or an experienced trader looking to sharpen specific skills, our content will help you deepen your knowledge and improve your understanding of our markets.

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Events & Webinars

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Webinar – Exploring Relative Value in the Equity Markets
8:00 a.m. CT, Wednesday July 1

Webinar - The Future of ESG Investing
7:00 a.m. CT, Wednesday July 8

Webinar - Options Collars for Adverse Price Risk
12:00 a.m. CT, Thursday July 9

Webinar – Trading Stock Index Options at CME Group
12:00 a.m. CT, Wednesday July 22

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CME Institute offers a variety of courses, helping you learn about futures and options, all of our asset classes, trading strategies, and more.

    • Get to know options on Micro E-mini futures

    • In response to overwhelming demand, CME Group is listing options on Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts. Learn how these options provide both a smaller notional value and precision risk management to all traders.

Practice

Practice trading, charting, and price analysis. Since practice makes perfect, our trading simulator and analysis tools offer hands-on learning in the futures and options markets.

Trading simulator – Study charts, add indicators and test your trading strategies in this simulated market environment.

Strategy simulator - Compare how an option, futures, or physical position would perform across different underlying price scenarios.

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Programs

CME Group has put together related courses and practice materials to create a syllabus of relevant information for a variety of topics and market participants.

    • All About Options

    • Increase your knowledge about options on futures by learning the basics of options trading, commonly used strategies and hypothetical market scenarios.

    • Why Trade Futures?

    • Learn the benefits of trading futures, how futures differ from other trading strategies, and how to trade across all major markets.

    • Academic Resource Center

    • Access more than 60 free online courses, set up a private trading simulation for individual classes and examine specific market data packages for research.

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    • Search our list of courses and lessons designed to help you at each stage of your trading journey.

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