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- Active Trader Daily market data and insight for the Individual Active Trader
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- Bitcoin Futures CME Bitcoin futures are now available for trading.
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Learn why traders use futures, how to trade futures, and what steps you should take to get started.
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Clearing
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Margin Services
- Try our new interactive margin calculator and evaluate initial margin requirements
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Subscription Based Data
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- MDP (Streaming) Access our market data directly via our Market Data Platform
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- E-Quotes Offering charting, analytics, real-time quotes and news on our products
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- Datamine (Historical) Comprehensive historical price information available on select CME Group contracts
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Technology
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Tech Talk 6.0: Generation Data
- Watch a replay of the 2017 Tech Talk event, featuring speakers from Colt, Orbital Insight and more.
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Education
Learn why traders use futures, how to trade futures, and what steps you should take to get started.
Bitcoin futures (BTC) are live at CME. Now you can hedge Bitcoin exposure or harness its performance with a futures product developed by the leading and largest derivatives marketplace: CME Group, where the world comes to manage risk.
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Why Trade Futures
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Contract Unit
5 bitcoin, as defined by the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR)
Minimum Price Fluctuation
Outright: $5.00 per bitcoin = $25.00 per contract
Calendar Spread: $1.00 per bitcoin = $5.00 per contract
Trading Hours
CME Globex and CME ClearPort: 5:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CT Sunday – Friday
Product Code
Outright: BTC
Listing Cycle
Nearest 2 months in the March Quarterly cycle (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec) plus the nearest 2 "serial" months not in the March Quarterly cycle.
View Full Contract Specifications
Pending regulatory review and certification
View Rulebook Details
BRR Historical Prices
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Root Code
BTC
Trading Code
BTCA Curncy
Platform
Bloomberg Front Month
Trading Code
BTCc1
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Thomson Reuters Front Month
Trading Code
BTC
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CME Direct, CQG, CTS, Fidessa, ION, Itiviti, Sungard, TT
Trading Code
@BTC
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DTN / Blue Ocean, Morningstar
Trading Code
BTC/[y][m].CMG
Platform
Activ
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