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CME Direct

As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group enables global risk management. Consisting of four exchanges — CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX — CME Group offers a wide array of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, empowering businesses worldwide to manage the complex risks of today’s global economy.

CME Direct is a highly customizable trading front end for CME Group markets, providing a comprehensive suite of solutions throughout the trading lifecycle. Traders can access listed and Block markets on a single screen and execute custom options strategies with speed and precision through advanced options functionality.

CME Direct offers the following innovative products：

  • CME Direct for Traders: Access CME Group’s electronic futures, options, and OTC markets on a single screen, with the flexibility to execute trades online or through a voice broker
  • Sophisticated trading grids facilitating fast spread and outright trading
  • Block Ticker displaying customizable real-time Block trade data
  • Option RFQs executing covered and multi-leg strategies on CME Globex
  • Straight-Through Processing enabling real-time trade flow between front and middle office
  • CME Direct for Brokers: View all CME Group futures on a single screen to execute trades on a client’s behalf, or use CME Direct for the instant processing of voice-negotiated blocks
  • Fast booking arranging OTC ClearPort trades to meet Block reporting timelines
  • Trade entry validation reducing trade entry errors
  • Broker whiteboard tracking and sharing prices across desks and regions
  • Straight-Through Processing process OTC voice trading without dual-keying
  • CME Direct Messenger: Integrates seamlessly with CME Direct as an advanced instant messaging platform
  • Intelligent parsing converting text to data for dozens of products
  • Rapid distribution blasting to hundreds of counterparts or targeted groups instantly
  • Click and Clear submitting complex trades from IM to ClearPort faster, more easily and with fewer errors
  • Extensive collaboration sharing information using a variety of tools