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Chicago Mercantile Exchange was known as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board when it was founded in 1898, and futures available through the exchange were initially limited to agricultural products. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In 1919 the Board was restructured and the name changed to Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which reflected a new focus on commodities ...
In 1919, the Chicago Butter and Egg Board, [4] a spin-off of the CBOT, was reorganized to enable member traders to allow future trading, and its name was changed to Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The Board's restrictions on trading after hours on any prices other than those at the Board's close gave rise to the 1917 case Chicago Board of ...
Floored is a 2009 documentary film about floor traders of the Chicago futures exchange trading floors, which were becoming obsolete due to electronic trading. Directed by James Allen Smith, the film runs for 77 minutes. [1] [2]
Chicago and its suburbs is home to 35 Fortune 500 companies and is a transportation and distribution center. Manufacturing, printing, publishing, insurance, transportation, financial trading and services, and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy.
In September 2019, Cboe Global Markets announced it was relocating its headquarters to the Old Chicago Main Post Office and that a new trading floor would be constructed in the Chicago Board of Trade building, which was the space the exchange originally occupied in the 1970s and 1980s. [23] The new trading floor opened in June 2022. [24]
Headlands was founded in July 2009 by three former senior executives from the trading side of the Citadel Group. Matt Andresen was a former co-chief executive at Citadel Securities . At the same time, Jason Lehman was head of Citadel's global options business, and Neil Fitzpatrick was chief operating officer of Citadel Execution Services.
DRW Holdings, LLC, typically referred to as DRW, is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago.The firm was founded in 1992 by Don Wilson, an options trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and was named after his initials: DRW. [1]
Radix Trading was co-founded by Benjamin Blander and Michael Rauchman. Blander was previously head of the high-frequency trading group of Citadel LLC while Rauchman was the chief technology officer of GETCO. [1] [2] [3] In August 2017, Radix Trading opened an office in Amsterdam to expand its operations into Europe.