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Margin Requirements

All margin requirements are subject to change without notice.  

CME Group:

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)  -
Grains & Mini grain,    Financial (bonds, notes etc.),

Metals     Dow Jones & mini-Dow

Ethanol

Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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Agricultural

Meats & Dairy 
Livestock & Dairy spreads intra-commodity
Lumber & Wood products 

Stock Index Futures
Stock Indexes

Interest rates
Euroyen, Eurodollars, etc.

Spreads, Eurodollars, etc.  intra-commodity,

  inter-commodity

Foreign Exchange Currency Futures
Currencies 
Currency intra-commodity
 inter-commodity

CME Group
Margin requirement all products


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New York Mercantile Exchange & Comex Exchange -  

Crude Oil Coal
Heating oil e-Mini Natural Gas
Natural Gas e-Mini Crude Oil
RBOB (Unleaded gas) e-mini unleaded gas
Propane e-mini heating oil
Brent Crude Oil electricity
   

 

Gold Palladium
Silver Aluminum
Copper mini gold
Platinum mini silver


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New York Board of Trade:

Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa, Orange Juice, Cotton, BFP Milk, NYSE(NYFE), US Dollar Index, Russell 1000, PSE Tech, CRB-Bridge Index
Spreads NYCE vs NYCE products
Spreads NYCE vs another exchange product

Kansas City Board of Trade - Hard Red Winter Wheat, Value Line(stock index)

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Minneapolis Grain Exchange-
Spring Wheat, Shrimp,Natl corn, soybean, wheat index* Spot months are generally higher

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International F&O Exchanges

Bolsa de Derivados do Porto (BDP), Portugal

Mercado a Termino de Rosario, S.A. (Rosario Futures Exchange), Argentina

BM&F (Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros), Brazil

Deutsche Borse AG (DTB), Germany

Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE)

International Petroleum Exchange of London, LTD. (IPE)

The London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange (LIFFE)

The London Metal Exchange Ltd. (LME)

Marche a Terme International de France (MATIF)

Montreal Exchange (ME)

New Zealand Futures & Options Exchange, Ltd. (NZFOE)

Osterreichische Termin-und Optionenborse

Singapore Commodity Exchange Ltd.(SICOM)

Singapore Derivatives Trading (SGX-DT)

Sydney Futures Exchange Ltd. (SFE)

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM)

Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange (TIFFE)

Toronto Futures Exchange (TFE)

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WPG)

South African Futures Exchange

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U.S. F&O Exchanges

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)

Chicago Board of Trade (CBT)

CBOT mini contracts

Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT)

Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGE)

New York Board of Trade

New York Mercantile Exchange, NYMEX Div.(NYM), Comex Div.(CMX)

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Weather Links

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Options Links

Updating

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Pit & Global News

White House economics briefing room - Easy access to government statistics.  I am not sure these will help a person with trading but I don't think it would hurt an individual to get an idea of the macro economics of the U.S.A.

Grains - Chicago Board of Trade grain pit news , 
               
midday, daily, weekly CBOT commentary  

LIVESTOCK TRADING RESOURCES
BEEF, LEAN HOGS, DAIRY,  Lumber                                   

Chicago Board of Trade Financial Pits Comments:
CBOT financial and equity commentary

        
Energies - U.S. Dept. of Energy weekly statistics
  
Natural Gas
      
Petroleum    

SoftsCocoa, coffee, sugar, orange juice & Cotton         
2nd softs & cotton market information paper

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Educational Links

New to the Futures & Options markets? initial market primer from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Futures and Options Terminology, jargon link

Understanding Financial Risks of Investing

Understanding Risks of On-line Investing & trading

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Financial Book Stores

Windsor Publishing

Traders Press

University Resources

National Ag Risk Education Library
Agricultural Marketing & Risk Management

University of Illinois
(Office for futures and options research)

AgEcon Search
(From the University of Minnesota)
You can type in searches on many different topics, everything from futures and options, to crop and livestock economics, in order to search you will need to type in the following manner i.e. corn and (futures or options).

Financial Risk Management (Currencies, Bonds, etc.)

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Related Links

Moore Research Center, Inc.
Historical market research site, spreads, etc., some free, some subscription

USDA

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Provides information on international market of U.S. ag products

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Treasury

Fortucast.com (commodity advice site no affiliation to GLTC)

ISickels Purebred Sheep

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Price Charts

Chicago Board of Trade

Grains
Agricultural spreads
Financial
Financial spreads

Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Stock Indexes, Foreign Currencies, Livestock, Dairy,
Eurodollars, Euroyen


New York Mercantile Exchange

Metals, Energies

World Gold Quotes,Spot, Asian Gold markets, gold to currency converter
New York Board of Trade

Minneapolis Grain Exchange
charts & delayed price quotes
Spring Wheat, Durum Wheat, White Wheat, Shrimp, Corn, Soybeans, Electricity
Kansas City Board of Trade
charts & delayed price quotes
Hard Red Winter Wheat, Energy, Natural Gas, Internet Stock Index                                                 

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