CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced
the launch of options on its Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts, which became available for
trading today.
Options on the Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini
Nasdaq-100 futures are 1/10th the size of their E-mini
options counterparts. The listing cycle for the new options
consists of five Friday weekly options, three end-of-month options
and two quarterly options contracts.
Successful options contracts require a robust, liquid underlying
futures market. Since launching one year ago, Micro E-mini Equity
futures have rapidly developed round-the-clock liquidity and become
the most successful new product in CME Group's history. Some
highlights include:
- Since launch, 186 million cumulative Micro E-mini S&P 500
futures contracts traded and 131 million cumulative Micro E-mini
Nasdaq-100 futures contracts traded,
- 1.5 million contracts traded across both futures products
combined, on average, each day in 2020,
- 30% of Micro E-Mini S&P 500 and Micro E-Mini Nasdaq-100
futures trading volume originated outside of the U.S. year-to-date
in 2020, and
- 93,000+ unique accounts have traded both futures contracts
since launch.
Micro E-mini Equity options are listed by and subject to the
rules of CME. For more information and detailed specifications on
options on Micro E-mini Equity futures, please visit
cmegroup.com/microemini-options.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform,
fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on
the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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