Micro Futures launching in May 2019

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Hello traders (current or soon-to-be)!

CME Group are launching a new service that will allow customers to trade futures using contracts 1/10th of the e-mini size.

Read all about it here:

https://activetrader.cmegroup.com/microemini/?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019_micro_emini&utm_content=20190311_retail_prelaunch_1

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Awesome thanks😊

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You are welcome, Holly.

This could be of interest to anyone wanting to trade futures, although the micro contracts will not offer currency futures sadly (or at least for now).

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Great news, thank you!
It seems they are going to launch new futures on indexes like S&P, but it would be quite interesting if they would launch similar contracts on the main (most popular) commodities - Crude oil (CL) and Gold (GC). Those futures are relatively expensive and bear substancial risks for non-professional traders so they have to use ETFs if they want to trade these commodities. At the same time, ETFs have several disadvatages: for example, they could be traded only during regular trading session, while commodities are traded 24h/day that can cause price movements at the time stock exchanges are closed. Such situation creates additional gaps which would be better to avoid to prevent unexpected losses/

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Most brokers offer CFD’s on indices, crude oil, gold and many other commodities, many of which are open continually from Sun/Mon to Fri- Just like forex, with the exception of brief daily maintenance breaks.

For example, here is FXCM Trading hours:

2019-03-12 trading hours
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