Our new Copper Calendar Swap Futures and Average Price Options

  • Offer a more perfect hedge for commercial users and producers
  • Provide access to products based on monthly averages, which allows hedgers to smoothly mitigate volatile price fluctuations
  • Are based on the increasingly liquid benchmark 25,000-lb Copper futures contract
  • Offer margin efficiencies with eroding rates across each month
  • Will offer margin offsets against other CME products, similar to those of the outright Copper futures contract

Read for contract specifications and contact information for this new copper product.


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