Jan 20, 2025 · CME Trading Floor will observe the following holidays during the year 2025 which may affect the open and close trading times. All times are Central Standard Time.

May 5, 2021 · The 144-year-old London Metal Exchange said last month that it plans to announce around June 8 whether it will reopen its open-outcry trading ring or permanently shut the only such floor in...

CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace offering the widest range of futures and options products for risk management.

Trading floor technology integrates the best of both worlds - cost-trimming electronic technology with time-proven open outcry trading. Trading Floor Technology Services staff work to ensure a state-of-the-art trading environment for market participants on the CME Group trading floor.

May 5, 2021 · The exchange operator CME Group Inc. CME 0.29% said it would permanently close most of its open-outcry trading pits in Chicago, ending one of the world’s last vestiges of old-fashioned floor ...

Operating during regular trading hours (RTH), the open outcry method consists of floor traders standing in a trading pit to call out orders, prices, and quantities of a particular commodity or its derivatives. Different colored jackets are worn by the traders to …

Oct 3, 2024 · Some exchanges like the NYSE and CME still use floor trading for large companies and more complicated trades. Floor trading allows for showmanship and to simplify large, complicated...

Feb 5, 2015 · CME, the world's largest futures market, is closing the open outcry pits for futures on its NYMEX property in New York as well. The options pits on both floors, where much of the manpower and...

May 5, 2021 · Following CME’s move, only the New York Stock Exchange’s trading floor in Manhattan and several options trading floors, including Cboe Global Markets Inc., will remain in the U.S. Except for the Eurodollar options pit, CME Group will shut down all of its Chicago trading floors permanently.

The Smart Confirm software brings greater speed and efficiency to pre and post-trade processing of complex open outcry trades executed on the trading floor. Before the pandemic closed the markets, Smart Confirm was only used by one firm at the CME Group.