Q: Exchange Seats

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toshiaki

Is there a primer on the purpose of exchange seats and how they affect options commissions? I trade only equities and stock options - no futures, commodities, etc.

My basic understanding is that you can lease a seat on CME for example and then send your info to Interactive Brokers to get your discounted transaction rate. I don't see much info on how much of a discount you actually as compared to paying 0.65/contract.

I'm non-US so this might not be applicable to me but I'm wondering how much someone could actually save with a seat.
 
You want an IOM seat for index futures. Last trade $19,000 plus $2,000 application fee. Call CME and ask for membership. They will email you the forms to fill in. When you are accepted as a member email membership at interactivebrokers.com and they will apply the exchange fee discount.

savings $1.23 exchange fee per contract.
 
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