Currency Futures Trading
Overview
vCap Futures offers active traders, portfolio managers (CTAs, CPOs, and hedge funds), proprietary trading groups (trading arcades) and corporates with access to exchange traded currency futures (foreign exchange or FX futures) markets as an alternative venue or liquidity sources for their over-the-counter foreign currency (spot) transactions.
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Advantages
Unlike the over-the-counter foreign currency counterparts, FX futures are traded on the CME, which is the largest regulated foreign exchange marketplace in world and the second largest electronic FX market in the world. Over 49 currency futures contracts and 32 options on currency futures, including major G7 currencies as well as emerging market currencies, are available for trading via our online futures trading platforms. Some of the benefits of FX futures trading on the CME include:
- Central foreign currency futures clearing
- Guaranteed counterparty credit
- Transparent Pricing & Discovery
- Deep FX Liquidity
- Alternative Foreign Exchange Liquidity Source to OTC FX Spot and Options Contracts
- Equal Access to Prices and Fully Disclosed Costs
- Narrow Bid/Ask Spreads
- Sub-millisecond execution times*
- Anonymity
- Electronic access for both currency futures and options on currency futures
- Benefit of Customer Segregated Funds
- Regulated by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
* Dependent on market liquidity and conditions, not guaranteed.
By utilizing our high-end online futures trading systems, we believe our clients can take advantage of this alternative venue of FX liquidity and use the currency futures markets to manage foreign exchange risk, gain price improvement on trades, achieve lower trading costs and conduct their cross-border transactions more efficiently and securely.
