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Account Information change (address,email, phone etc.)	Exempt Commodity Pool	Omnibus
Account Transfer	Foreign Certification	Partnership/LLC
Additional Risk	Foreign Omnibus	Passport Consent
Anti-Money Laundering	Hedge Account	Security Agreement (Hedge Accounts)
Corporate	Individual/Joint	Strategy Runner Agreement
Doing Business As	Guaruntee and Indemnification	Strategy Runner End User
Electronic Trade Agreement	Limited Power of Attorney	Trust
Email Consent form (online)		TT End User ( electronic platform agreement

The risk of loss in trading futures/options contracts can be substantial therefore only genuine risk fund should be used.
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Great Lakes Trading Company, Inc, is a United States registered futures and options broker located halfway between South Bend and Fort Wayne Indiana in the Great Lakes region known as Michiana and has branch offices located in Eastern Michigan as well as the "thumb" of Michigan near Lake Huron, which provides consulting, risk management, managed futures, trading systems and brokerage services in futures and options markets throughout the eastern Midwestern United States corn belt, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and worldwide to clients using futures and options markets for self directed trading and hedging across a broad spectrum of commodities ranging from grains consisting of wheat, corn, soybeans, oats, soymeal, bean oil, livestock contracts ranging from cattle, feeder cattle, and hogs; soft commodities include: coffee, cocoa, sugar, and orange juice, energies contracts traded range from crude oil, heating oil, natural gas, and unleaded gas: stock indexes traded include, S&P 500, KOSPI, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, Russell 500, emini S&P, emini NASDAQ, mini Dow, mini Russell, FTSE, Dax, and Schatz in London and Europe respectively: interest rates include 30 year bonds, ten year notes, five year notes, two year notes and Gilts, further physical futures contracts traded are: milk, cheese and dairy, precious metals products traded are; gold, silver, platinum, palladium, finally worldwide currencies are traded both in futures and forex markets including the Euro-currency, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, US dollar, Australian Dollar, Mexican Peso, British Pound, and the Canadian Dollar. In addition grain and energy swaps can be traded for hedging purposes through Clearport of the CME Group. Great Lakes Trading Co., Inc. also consults clients on the implementation and management of risk with automated futures and options trading systems. Great Lakes Trading Co., Inc. consults with individuals, corporations, high networth individuals, family offices, pension funds and institutions in the use and incorporation of managed futures investments as a financial portfolio investment diversification alternative which is not correlated to the stock market. It is Great Lakes Trading Co., Inc. opinion that Commodity trading advisors who use futures and options for technical trend following trading along with strict money management provide a strategic tool to diversify investment risk in a well balanced financial portfolio, ranging from Individual Retirement Accounts, Roth IRA’s, SEP IRA’s to self directed financial portfolios, pension funds and corporations. Great Lakes Trading Co., Inc.’s consulting, hedging and trading reach is worldwide giving clients access to futures and options, and swap markets throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia, through regulated exchanges such as the CME Group, Euronext, Kansas City Board of Trade, Minneapolis Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, COMEX, Intercontinental Exchange, LIFFE, BM&F, Matif, London Metals Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange, Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Singapore Commodity Exchange