The Trial-and-Error Development of the Chicago Futures Markets

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Hilary Till

Premia Research LLC; Commodity Insights Digest (a publication of Bayes Business School)

Date Written: October 2013

Abstract

Financial professionals are well aware that the ongoing implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act may cause changes to market structure, including in the futures markets. Should market participants be concerned? The short answer is not necessarily, given that the history of U.S. futures trading is one of responding to constant adversity through innovation. This paper reviews the evolution of US futures markets including: how and why modern futures trading started in Chicago; the transformation of U.S. futures exchanges from primarily agricultural futures exchanges to financial futures exchanges; how the Chicago and New York futures exchanges have had to constantly innovate in order to remain in business; and why some futures contracts fail.

Keywords: Futures markets, futures trading, hedging

JEL Classification: N22, N21, G1, G18

Suggested Citation

Till, Hilary, The Trial-and-Error Development of the Chicago Futures Markets (October 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2603512 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2603512

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