Trade on Globex

Trade listed derivatives, EBS Market and BrokerTec markets on Globex with a variety of trading apps.

Overview

Globex offers trading opportunities on three separate markets: CME Group listed derivatives, BrokerTec and EBS Market. Each market has a range of access requirements, connectivity options, risk management tools and policies designed to best serve our customers. To trade on Globex, you must use a CME Group-certified trading application and connectivity to Globex.

Choose from a third-party front-end application or build your own to connect to Globex, EBS or BrokerTec markets.

TRADING APPLICATIONS

Third-party front-end

Work with an approved third-party to find the trading application that best meets your needs for CME Group listed derivatives, OTC or cash markets.

TRADING APPLICATIONS

Build your own

Get more information on requirements and best practices for developing your own application for Globex, EBS or BrokerTec markets.

Use a CME Group-provided front-end

Whether trading CME Group listed derivatives, BrokerTec or EBS Market, we offer front-end trading platforms to make connecting to our markets fast and accessible.

Access our fast, secure and highly configurable trading front-end. Experience trading tailor-made for CME Group listed derivatives, with unrivaled access and a choice of venues and trading modalities.

BrokerTec GFE provides access to a level playing field for manual trading. This highly configurable access method ensures users have an easy way to enter markets for multi-product connectivity.

EBS Workstation is the next generation platform enabling professional traders to deal in spot foreign exchange bilaterally via EBS Direct. EBS Workstation is accessible via HTML-5 compliant browsers or as a desktop application. 

Trade on Globex

Messaging Efficiency Program

The Globex Messaging Efficiency Program (MEP) is designed to target messaging that can negatively impact system performance, impair efficient access to the market and create unnecessary infrastructure and processing costs for market participants.

From an operational perspective, the MEP provides transparent messaging thresholds in selected product groups and measures Volume Ratios at the executing firm level, which serve as the basis for comparison against the established Product Group Benchmark.

CME Group listed derivatives

Contains detailed information on the "Program" as it pertains to the CME Globex platform including the volume ratio formula and performance measurement methodology.

View a list of product groups and their assigned measurements which determine if a Globex Firm is in compliance with the CME Globex Messaging Efficiency Program.

The CME Globex Messaging Policy contains the high level regulatory definition of the policy filed with the CFTC.

The MEP holiday calendar can now be found with the Trading Calendar.

EBS

Contains detailed information on the methodology, calculations and parameters for the EBS Market MEP.

Contact us

Global Account Management

The GAM team manages customer access to all CME Group markets and services and serves as clients’ primary information source for electronic trading, technology enhancements and new offerings.

Email
Global Command Center

The GCC oversees market operations and production support 24 hours a day, six days a week for Globex, BrokerTec, EBS and OTC venues, as well as supporting CME Direct, ClearPort, DataMine, Elysian and GFE platforms.

U.S.

+1 800 438 8616

Europe

+44 20 7623 4747

Asia

+65 6532 5010

Japan

+81 3 6733 7559

Certification Support for Electronic Trading (CSET)

CSET handles inquiries, issues and support requests from clients testing or certifying to the Globex and ClearPort services.

U.S.

+1 312 930 2322

Europe

+44 20 3379 3803

Asia

+65 6593 5593

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. The company is comprised of four Designated Contract Markets (DCMs). 
Further information on each exchange's rules and product listings can be found by clicking on the links to CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX.

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