GLOBEX
11 May 2016 By PDSNETThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange's electronic trading platform. Some futures contracts are available for trading on Globex only during the U.S. evening hours, while others -- such as the very popular E-mini contracts -- trade electronically nearly around-the-clock. Today the CME Globex trading system operates at the heart of CME. It was introduced in 1992 as the first global electronic trading platform for futures contracts. This fully electronic trading system allows market participants to trade from booths at the exchange or while sitting in a home or office thousands of miles away. On 19 October 2004, the one billionth (1,000,000,000) transaction was recorded.
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