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CME have their proximity hosting there (LNET) but the Globex matching engine is not at 350 E Cermak. It is somewhere else in the Chicago area.

On ICE its called WTI. Its basically the cash-settled equivalent of NYMEX CL. It is not a physically settled contract like ICE Brent or NYMEX CL. Most options are traded as blocks. There isnt much option liquidity on the sceens

Thats where the $10 Dow Future closed on Friday afternoon on Globex. The Future closes at 3.15pm CST, 15 minutes after the cash markets. The -513 reflects the change from the Thursday night settlement, just on the Futures contract. Obviously the selloff on the cash close continued into the...

Metals trade on the eCBOT platform which is the same as LIFFE. The system for CBOT only recently started supporting stop functionality on the matching engine. A lot of the systems used to offer the functionality whereby they would hold the order on the server and only release to the exchange as...

The big physically settled contracts start trading side-by-side on September 4th for trade date september 5th. Not much longer to wait. In the meantime, they trade on Globex from 3.15pm EST until 5.15pm EST then from 6pm EST until 9.50am EST (next days trade date)

ZC - Corn ZS - Soy Beans ZM - Soy Beanmeal ZL - Soy Beanoil ZW - Wheat ZR - Rough Rice ZO - Oats ZE - Ethanol Think everyone is focusing on the Energy products that just moved over to Globex this week. Will be interesting when those go side-by-side on Sep 5th.

Symbol for electronic corn is ZC

To be fair to the ISVs, apples to apples, most have similar latencies (within 100ms) if you were to compare them under identical operating conditions. It really depends on the Broker that this providing you the solution. BrokerA may have a blindingly fast Pats environment and BrokerB may have...

GTC on a mkt order ? Think about it !

Chances are your Strategy runner frontend will route orders into a Pats backend anyway so dont look for any performance improvements above and beyond the system trading capabilites.

If you want to trade directly, you need to register for an Investor ID with the Korean regulators. When you place an order, your ID must be included on the trade record (Similar to "Tag50" at the CME) Also, you cant take Korean Won out of Korea. To transfer any profits you have to convert to...

You don't quit do you ? Get on with your life and be grateful you aren't an employee tied up in this disgraceful mess.