The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is a global leader in derivatives trading. The exchange has announced that its event contracts will include Bitcoin futures from March 13, subject to regulatory approval.
CME Event Contracts are a relatively new financial product. Event contracts are currently offered on products such as:
- gold, silver, copper, crude oil, natural gas, E-mini S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq-100, euro-U.S. dollar foreign exchange futures, and others
- they are a very short term, daily expiring product and have been likened to binary options (more here if you are interested)
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