Foreign Futures

Ready to take on the world ?  Test your experience, skills and even luck with ever popular foreign futures offer by CIMB Futures. Back by popular demand foreign futures is now available to trade, here you can find that even the most veteran trader wimp out if anything goes wrong due to its enormous market capitalization, massive liquidity and volatility.  Below is the products available: 

Name	Currency
HKEX MINI HANG SENG	HKD
HKEX HANG SENG	HKD
HKEX H-SHARES	HKD
SGX (SiMSCI) MSCI SPORE	USD
SGX NIKKEI 225	USD
SGX MSCI TAIWAN	USD
CME EMINI NASDAQ 100	USD
CME S&P 500	USD
CBOT MINI DOW ($5)	USD
CBOT SOYBEANS	USD
CBOT SOYBEAN OIL	USD
CBOT SOYBEAN MEAL	USD
CBOT CORN	USD
CBOT WHEAT	USD
CBOT OATS	USD
NYMEX LIGHT CRUDE OIL	USD
NYMEX HEATING OIL	USD
NYMEX NATURAL GAS	USD
COMEX GOLD	USD
COMEX COPPER	USD
COMEX SILVER	USD
NYBOT COCOA	USD
NYBOT COTTON NO.2	USD
NYBOT COFFEE C	USD
NYBOT SUGAR NO.11	USD
EUREX DAX	EUR
EUREX EURO STOXX 50	EUR
EUREX EURO BUND	EUR
LIFFE FTSE 100	GBP
LIFFE WHITE SUGAR	GBP
LIFFE COCOA	GBP
IPE BRENT CRUDE	USD
TOCOM RUBBER	JPY

Margin Requirement for trading in specified exhange, click here.

Contract Specification, click here.
Live and Interactive Chart, click here.
To jump start your learning curve, you can also read this article regarding introduction to Futures market, here.

Account Opening:

Individual 

	Complete the required details on the Application Form.
	Read, understand and sign the Client Agreement (keep client's copy), Risk Disclosure Statement, Electronic Trading Supplemental T&C and Trading in Specified Exchange Addendum.
	Attach a photocopy of your NRIC (both sides) or passport or Armed Forces/Police Personnel Authority card (both sides)
	Attach your latest 3 months of pay slip or Income Tax Return Form or bank statement

For existing CIMB Futures Client, submit only the Trading in Specified Exchange Addendum. You can trade online via CIMB Trader for Specified Exchanges. Password will be sent to your email address and to be changed upon first login. CIMB Trader Application software can be downloaded via : http://202.65.211.197/CIMBT946EnglishInstallerSG.exe

After that please refer to the attached guide (Global Futures) to activate your J-Trader. 

About Trading Platform For Foreign Futures

With collaboration with world renown trading platform provider the Patsystem, end user can ensure that stability and price accuracy is the main features using this online platform. 

PATSystems J-Trader

PATS J-Trader online platform delivers split-second execution, real-time streaming quotes and depth of market execution for electronically-traded products. This platform is optional and is geared toward the active trader who demands high speed, dependable order execution.

About J-Trader

J-Trader is a feature-rich front-end application that can meet the needs of all types of trader. It is a highly flexible product that allows you to choose the level of functionality to suit your requirements.

It can be deployed over any TCP/IP network such as the Internet, LANs and WANs.

J-Trader combines direct access to global futures, options and equities exchanges with real-time price distribution and advanced pre-trade risk controls. The key advantages include:

·         Fast connections to global exchanges.

·         Full pre-trade risk management, including hierarchical account structures.

·         A basic trading application for direct access to the leading global futures exchanges. J-Trader has the following features:

1. Ticket – a simple ticket-trading screen for order submission.
2. Status – an order book to display working and filled orders.
3. Hot quotes – an order entry screen and price discovery screen for trading multiple exchanges and contracts. Depth of market screens allow the user to display any contract’s full order book in real time.
4. DOME screen – a fast order-submission screen with multiple trading features, designed for entering and canceling orders at speed.
5. Stocks – an order entry and discovery screen for multiple stock markets, providing ’level one’ and ’level two’ information to the trader.
6. Matrix – an order entry screen and a discovery screen for calendar-spread traders.
7. Position – a trader’s open positions and profit and loss.
8. Reports – a rolling five-day historical report of the trader’s positions.
9. Accounts – a list of available trader accounts from which the trader can execute orders.
10. Settings – configuration tool for traders to customize their display.
11. An automatic and manual ’Market Making’ system using a ’Price Injection Gun’ (PIG).
12. Financial option pricing and transacting tools.
13. A market-monitoring ticker to view and display all the trades on any number of exchanges, with advanced filtering systems.
14. A specific options trading screen that lists multiple contracts and expiries with any number of options strikes.
15. An exchange strategy and pricing creation tool enabling you to create any exchange-recognized options strategy.

DOME screen

This provides users with fast single-click trading and cancel. Market depth, status, hot quote and position screens are combined into a single screen that can be used to trade any number of contracts. DOME also provides a graphical and numerical audit trail of the last traded prices.

Matrix screen

For spread trading, J-Trader provides a user-friendly matrix screen that enables you to trade outright and calendar spread markets using a single or double click. Implied prices can be switched on or off, as required. Full depth-of-market is available on all calendar spreads, and the history for the last 20 trades is easily accessible.

Status

The status window displays all working and filled orders. Buys and sells are colour-coded for ease of use. Allocation can be carried out pre- and post-trade. Trades can be found easily using the sophisticated order filter and sort system. Other functions include ’Amend’, ’Pull’, ’Query’, ’Print’, single-click order canceling and the ability to share orders across multiple users, to achieve a global order book.

MEL (Multi-Exchange Legger)

MEL allows you to create, price and trade any user-defined strategy across exchanges and products. Once the strategy has been created, the application will display real-time synthetic prices and volumes. Traders can place orders where each component is automatically executed within ratio and weighting requirements.

Greater connectivity and risk management

As part of J-Trader, Patsystems provides enhanced exchange connectivity and pre-trade risk management. The system can meet the most demanding trading requirements. Key features include:

·         Creating and executing non-exchange-recognized options strategies.

·         Automatic and manual market-making.

·         Distribution of multi-exchange, real-time trading access to your customers anywhere in the world via Internet, LAN, WAN, etc.

·         Re-brandable trading applications with your company logo.

·         Full pre-trade cash and position risk management including hierarchical account structures.

·         Advanced monitoring tools to view multiple exchanges, contracts and expiries.

·         User-definable arrangement of windows, colours, fonts and settings.

·         Advanced pricing tools to calculate option values for a variety of different products.

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System Requirements (for optimal performance):

·         Microsoft Java Virtual Machine build 3802 (or latest version).

·         Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2.

·         600 x 800 screen resolution.

·         800 Mhz Pentium III PC or equivalent.

·         50 MB Free HDD Space.

·         256 MB Memory.