- CME Group introduces its first equity index, FX,
cryptocurrency, metals and energy contracts to
Robinhood customers
CHICAGO, Jan. 29,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading
derivatives marketplace, and Robinhood Derivatives, LLC
('Robinhood'), today announced that some of CME Group's most
popular futures products have started rolling out on the Robinhood
mobile app.
Over the coming weeks, all eligible Robinhood customers in the
U.S. will have access to futures products across five major asset
classes, including the four leading U.S. equity indices –
S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial
Average – as well as bitcoin and ether, major FX
currency pairs, key metals including gold, silver and copper, and
additional commodities such as crude oil and natural gas.
"We are extremely pleased to offer some of our most popular
futures contracts to the broad network of retail traders on
Robinhood," said Julie Winkler,
Chief Commercial Officer at CME Group. "Demand for futures has
skyrocketed as a new generation of self-directed traders is seeking
diversified investment opportunities. Expanding retail access to
futures trading is an integral step in educating and empowering
this new crop of investors, and we look forward to working with
Robinhood to continue providing the products and resources needed
to tap into today's most important markets."
"Launching CME Group futures is a significant step forward in
our mission to make Robinhood the best place for active traders,"
said JB Mackenzie, VP and GM of Futures and International at
Robinhood. "We're rolling out an elegant new mobile trading ladder
that we built from scratch and allows customers to trade simply and
efficiently at the speed of a tap. This reimagined experience,
coupled with some of the lowest fees in the industry, makes trading
futures at Robinhood an easy decision."
CME Group offers a wide variety of educational resources for
both seasoned and first-time traders, including the CME Institute
and Futures Fundamentals, which include free online courses,
webinars, interactive tutorials and insights from industry experts
and academics, allowing users to gain the knowledge, resources and
confidence they need to trade futures.
Robinhood also offers a number of educational resources to help
customers make informed decisions. This includes futures articles
on Robinhood Learn, as well as a series of YouTube videos
that will roll out over the coming months and provide additional
information on what futures are, how to trade them, and more.
For more information on CME Group and its products, please
visit: www.cmegroup.com.
About Robinhood
Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD)
transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock
trading and democratizing access to the markets for millions of
investors. Today, Robinhood lets you trade stocks, options,
commodity interests, and crypto, invest for
retirement, and earn with Robinhood Gold. Headquartered in
Menlo Park, California, Robinhood
puts customers in the driver's seat, delivering unprecedented value
and products intentionally designed for a new generation of
investors. Additional information about Robinhood can be found
at www.robinhood.com.
Robinhood uses the "Overview" tab of its Investor Relations
website (accessible
at https://investors.robinhood.com/overview/default.aspx) and
its Newsroom (accessible at newsroom.aboutrobinhood.com), as
means of disclosing information to the public in a broad,
non-exclusionary manner for purposes of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission's ("SEC") Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD).
Investors should routinely monitor those web pages, in addition to
Robinhood's press releases, SEC filings, and public conference
calls and webcasts, as information posted on them could be deemed
to be material information.
"Robinhood" and the Robinhood feather logo are registered
trademarks of Robinhood Markets, Inc. All other names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
owners.
About CME Group
As the world's leading derivatives
marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade
futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and
analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to
efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group
exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products
across all major asset classes based on interest
rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform,
fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on
the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board
of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York
Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York
Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity
Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC
and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a
product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI").
"S&P®", "S&P 500®", "SPY®", "SPX®", US 500 and The 500 are
trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC; Dow
Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or
trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks
have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored,
endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI
makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in
such products. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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