Education

Livestock buyers and sellers face ever-increasing levels of price risk. CME Group Livestock futures and options provide livestock buyers and sellers with valuable tools to manage price risk and get greater control over their bottom line.

Gain an understanding of key concepts of the livestock market. Learn about the different products, how various market participants use them, and factors that impact the markets; including the use of futures and options for risk management in the livestock markets.

Lumber futures and options provide risk management instruments for a constantly evolving marketplace. Learn more about this smaller sized contract designed to offer a more precise and accessible tool to manage price risk and tailor trading strategies.

Explore the key concepts and structure of today’s energy markets, including the factors that affect supply and demand and move prices.

Explore the basics of natural gas infrastructure, key impacts like seasonality that affect supply and demand, as well as hedging physical product using futures and options products.

Energy crude oil futures and options provide the tools the industry needs to manage risk. Explore the key concepts and structure of today’s energy markets, including the factors that affect supply and demand and move prices.

CME Group (NYMEX) offers numerous cash-settled futures and option contracts for various electricity markets across North America. The contracts cover both hubs and zones in regional transmission organization (RTO) and independent system operator (ISO) service areas.

Learn how Refined Product futures at CME Group are used to manage risk exposure and provide hedging opportunities across regional and international markets.

Learn more about CBL GEO futures physical delivery and how the contract is providing a more standardized, transparent market for price discovery.