- 26 Feb 2019
- By CME Group
- Topics: Agriculture
- Outside of North America, Black Sea wheat and corn are global price setters
- Manage price exposure to the world’s largest wheat export market
- Track the Russian Wheat and Ukrainian cash export markets
- Mitigated counterparty risk
- Talk of Russian export restrictions and continued conflict between Russia and Ukraine increases price volatility, raising need to hedge
- Spreading opportunities with other CBOT Grain contracts cross-margining and capital efficiencies through CME Clearing
- Financially settled futures and options
- Contract size 50MT
- Minimum 12 calendar months listed to trade
- Tradable off-screen on CME ClearPort as blocks, subject to a minimum of five lots
- Worldwide access via CME Globex and CME ClearPort
Use the Options Open Interest Heatmap Tool to track where positions are concentrated. View current open interest and changes in volume and OI by strike, put or call, and expiration.
The CME Feeder Cattle Index is intended to serve as a benchmark for the price of cattle being placed on feed at the feedlot, or as defined by the USDA in the monthly “Cattle on Feed” report.
Gain insight into the use of this index to effectively manage risk here.
The Ag complex experienced monumental growth last year; hitting multiple volume and open interest records in Grains and Oilseeds, Livestock and Dairy.
- All-time volume record of 3.2M on June 19
- All-time open interest record of 10.1M on June 21
- Record Corn futures open interest of 2M on June 6
- Record Soybean futures open interest over 1M on April 16
- Record Feeder Cattle futures volume of 30.5K on August 7
- Record CS Cheese options open interest on of 53K on January 30, 2018
- Over 66M Ag options traded in 2018 with Chicago Wheat, KC Wheat, Soybean Meal, Weekly and Dairy options setting new volume records
- Ag ETH option volume grew 43% YoY due to trade war issues and major liquidity providers now present “off-hours”
- For more information, read our monthly update
- YoY Growth in Butter ADV
- Futures +30%
- Options +113%
- Butter options electronic volume +244% YoY as 90% is now traded on-screen
- YoY Growth in Lumber Volume
- Futures +6%
- Options +32%
- Lumber options have seen an ADV Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7% over the last 5 years
Data as of December 31, 2018, unless otherwise specified
* As of January 31, 2019
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