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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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    • Trade Against a Pro

    • There's no time like the present to learn how to trade futures and options. Compete for cash prizes as you trade against pro trader Bob Iaccino and the field starting on December 8 at 5:00 p.m. CT.

    • Aligning Strategies with Volatility

    • Join us for part 1 of our Strategic Options Trading Series, featuring David Lerman, Director of Education at CME Group. Learn about historical, implied and realized volatility, as well as annualized volatility numbers and volatility skew.

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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.

    • Introduction to Futures

    • Dive into the basics of futures contracts, how contracts trade on a futures exchange, the different ways customers use these instruments and the benefits that futures provide.

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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