Advantage Futures LLC

Advantage Futures LLC (AF) has a network of Industry Professionals that strive to provide the professional trader with the best combination of products and services available. AF is a clearing member firm of four principal futures exchanges and has relationships in place to execute futures contracts worldwide. Our team services a diverse institutional client base that requires high volume execution expertise and value added trade ideas to manage risk and enhance returns. In 2004 AF became #1 in electronic trading volume at The Chicago Board of Trade and #1 in interest rate product volume at Chicago Mercantile Exchange. These economies of scale now allow us to pass along the associated savings along to the professional trader.

For more information about advantage futures products and services log on to the firms’s web site at http://www.advantagefutures.com

The Chicago Board of Trade

Providing a diverse mix of financial and commodity futures and options on futures, the Chicago Board of Trade advances into the 21st Century on the strength of member-trader expertise, unparalleled liquidity, and market integrity.

Via open auction and screen-based trading, the CBOT provides premier customer service to investors and risk managers worldwide. Originally launched in 1848, CBOT today offers more than 60 different products, including futures and options-on-futures on the U.S. Treasury bonds and notes, interest rate swaps, the Dow Jones^sm Industrial Average, including an electronic mini-sized Dow^sm.

For more information about the CBOT’s markets and products, log on to the exchange’s web site at http://www.cbot.com

 

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

The largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures.

As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX® around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures contracts and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves about $1.6 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $27.4 billion in collateral deposits.

For more information about the CME’s markets and products, log on to the exchange’s web site at www.cme.com.

CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.

 

The New York Board of Trade 

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is the parent company of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Inc. (CSCE) and the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE).  Through its two exchanges, NYBOT offers an expanding range of agricultural and financial products.   

For more information about the New York Board of Trade’s markets and products, log on to the exchange’s web site at www.nybot.com

 

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc

The world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals. The Exchange has stood for market integrity and price transparency throughout its 132-year history. Transactions executed on the Exchange avoid the risk of counterparty default because the Exchange clearinghouse acts as the counterparty to every trade. Trading is conducted through two divisions, the NYMEX Division, home to the energy, platinum, and palladium markets; and the COMEX Division, on which all other metals trade.

For more information about The New York Mercantile Exchange’s markets and products, log on to the exchange’s web site at www.nymex.com