CME Group Futures

Trade CME Group futures through Lincoln Park Financial and access U.S. regulated markets across equity indexes, energy, metals, agriculture, cryptocurrencies, interest rates, and foreign exchange.

Available CME Futures Markets

Explore CME Group futures across equity indexes, cryptocurrencies, energy, metals, agriculture, livestock, interest rates, and foreign exchange. Select a market below to view contract specifications, margin requirements, trading hours, and supported trading platforms.

Equity Index Futures

CME Equity Index Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to major U.S. stock market indexes without purchasing individual stocks. Available contracts include E-mini and Micro E-mini futures on the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Russell 2000, making them popular with day traders, investors, institutions, and portfolio hedgers.

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Precious Metals Futures

CME Precious Metals Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium without owning the physical metals. Available contracts include standard and micro-sized futures, making them popular with active traders, investors, institutions, and commercial hedgers looking to manage price risk, diversify portfolios, or participate in global metals markets.

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Energy Futures

CME Energy Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to global energy markets without owning the underlying commodities. Available contracts include Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Gasoline, and Heating Oil Futures, making them popular with active traders, commercial hedgers, producers, and institutions managing energy price risk or responding to changing market conditions.

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Crypto Futures

CME Cryptocurrency Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to Bitcoin and Ether without directly owning digital assets. Available contracts include standard and micro-sized Bitcoin and Ether futures, making them popular with active traders, investors, institutions, and portfolio managers seeking U.S. regulated cryptocurrency market exposure.

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Interest Rate Futures

CME Interest Rate Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to U.S. Treasury securities and short-term interest rates without purchasing the underlying bonds. Available contracts include Treasury Bond, Treasury Note, Ultra Bond, and SOFR futures, making them popular with investors, institutions, banks, and portfolio managers seeking to hedge interest rate risk or respond to changing monetary policy.

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Livestock Futures

CME Livestock Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to cattle and hog markets without owning the underlying livestock. Available contracts include Live Cattle, Feeder Cattle, and Lean Hog Futures, making them popular with producers, feedlots, processors, commercial hedgers, and active traders managing livestock price risk or participating in agricultural commodity markets.

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Grain Futures

CME Grain Futures allow traders to gain long or short exposure to major agricultural commodity markets without owning the physical grain. Available contracts include Corn, Soybean, Soybean Oil, Soybean Meal, and Wheat Futures, making them popular with farmers, commercial hedgers, grain merchandisers, processors, investors, and active traders managing agricultural price risk or participating in global commodity markets.

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Supported CME Futures Trading Platforms

Select the trading platform that best fits your workflow, whether you’re trading equity indexes, energy, metals, agriculture, cryptocurrencies, or interest rate futures.

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CME Direct Mobile - Lincoln Park Financial

ENHANCED MOBILE ACCESS

Unleash the market, anywhere

  • Get full, unfiltered access to live data for futures and options.
  • Submit and manage all futures order types, just like on your desktop.
  • Trade and manage simple puts and calls on the go.
  • Analyze trades with built-in QuikStrike and TrendSpider charts.

CME Group Futures Frequently Asked Questions

CME Group is the world's largest regulated derivatives marketplace, offering futures and options across equity indexes, interest rates, foreign exchange, energy, metals, agriculture, and cryptocurrencies. Its exchanges including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and Commodity Exchange (COMEX) provide centralized trading and clearing for market participants around the world.