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Risk and Return in a Portable Alpha World

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:06:00 EST

Portable Alpha: Risk and Return in a Portable Alpha World

Reading Order Flow (CBOT Archive)

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:04:00 EST

Order Flow: Reading Order Flow (CBOT Archive)

Moody's Response to the Credit Crisis

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:03:00 EST

Fundamental Analysis: Moody's Response to the Credit Crisis

Mitigating Credit Risk With Exchange Traded Derivatives

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:02:00 EST

Fundamental Analysis: Mitigating Credit Risk With Exchange Traded Derivatives

Credit Derivatives for Hedging and Speculation

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST

Fundamental Analysis: Credit Derivatives for Hedging and Speculation

CME Group Fed Watch

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:43:00 EST

Fed Funds Watch: CME Group Fed Watch

Fed Watch: Using Options to Understand FOMC Behavior

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:40:00 EST

Fed Funds Watch: Fed Watch: Using Options to Understand FOMC Behavior

Eurodollar Implied Spreads Tutorial

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:07:00 EST

Eurodollars: Eurodollar Implied Spreads Tutorial

CME EOS Trader

CME Group — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:04:00 EST

EOS Trader: CME EOS Trader

Treasury Futures and Options Fact Card

CME Group — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:05:00 EST

U.S. Treasury futures and options provide a wide variety of market participants around-the-globe with the ability to adjust their interest rate exposure. Futures and options on 2-Year, 5-Year and 10-Year Treasury Notes and 30-Year Treasury Bonds are key tools for those who wish to manage their interest rate risk, as well as those who wish to take advantage of price volatility.

CME Swaps on Swapstream Fact Card

CME Group — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:56:00 EST

When launched in the first quarter of 2008, CME Swaps on Swapstream will be the first
over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate swap product to offer the clearing efficiencies and
financial safeguards of a clearing house.

CBOT Swap Futures Fact Card

CME Group — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:41:00 EST

CBOT Interest Rate Swap futures fill a vital need for exchange-traded derivative contracts that reference intermediate- and long-term swap rates. These contracts covering the 5-year, 10-year and 30-year tenors provide institutional investors with efficient and effective vehicles for hedging credit and interest rate exposure.

CBOT Flexible Options on U.S. Treasury Futures Fact Card

CME Group — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:26:00 EST

Traders often find themselves in need of a tool that allows them to either fine tune an existing position or gain the precise exposure they desire. Flexible Options on U.S. Treasury futures (Flex Options) — exchange-traded options that offer non-standard features — provide the dexterity to manage a position and gain market exposure
without sacrificing the benefits of an exchange-traded derivative.

Fed Funds Futures and Options Fact Card

CME Group — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:08:00 EST

The 30-Day Fed Funds futures and options contracts are important risk management
tools for anyone who wants to hedge against, or speculate on changes, in short-term interest rates brought about by changes in Federal Reserve monetary policy.

Protecting Funding Margins with Binary Options on the Target Federal Funds Rate

CME Group — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EST

Most sources of long-dated Treasury funding – term fed funds, term repo and term Eurodollar placements, for example – tend to track the overnight fed funds rate closely. If the overnight fed funds rate is low and if the next policy move by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) looks like a push toward higher rates, then a treasurer might be wise to extend funding from very short dates (e.g., overnight to a week) out to longer terms (e.g., as much as three months or more).

Binary Options on the Target Fed Funds Fact Card

CME Group — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:20:00 EST

Binary Options on the Target Federal Funds Rate (Fed Binaries) allow you to express your views on upcoming Fed policy decisions. The target fed funds rate is the interest
rate targeted by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to regulate the flow of
credit into the U.S. banking system.