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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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On-demand webinar: Nowcasting the US Economy
- Join CME Group Chief Economist, Blu Putnam, as he shares insights using alternative data and nowcasting to monitor developments in the US economy.
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Webinar: Gold Futures and Options: Opportunities for Active Traders
- Join a live panel of experts, including Jim Iuorio, CNBC contributor, Blu Putnam, CME Group Chief Economist, and Patrick O’Donnell, CME Group Senior Director of Metals, as they explore these timely opportunities and how to trade using Gold futures and options.
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View AllCME Institute offers a variety of courses, helping you learn about futures and options, all of our asset classes, trading strategies, and more.
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Micro E-mini Options
- Gain an understanding of Options on Micro E-mini futures contracts by reviewing contract specifications, product listings, and expirations in this course.
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What is Contango and Backwardation
- Discover how the terms contango and backwardation define the structure of the forward curve.
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Understanding Price Limits and Circuit Breakers
- Learn more about circuit breakers and daily price limit changes to a variety of CME Group products.
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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.
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All About Options
- Increase your knowledge about options on futures by learning the basics of options trading, commonly used strategies and hypothetical market scenarios.
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Why Trade Futures?
- Learn the benefits of trading futures, how futures differ from other trading strategies, and how to trade across all major markets.
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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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Follow the Markets
- Research and analysis from industry experts to help you stay on top of the latest market trends.
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Trading Challenge
- Join a Trading Challenge to test your skills against your peers.
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