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Introducing the CBOT® Dow Complex, featuring the new, electronically
traded CBOT mini-sized DowSM. Trade the new CBOT mini-sized DowSM
and other Dow related products and take full advantage of deep, liquid markets, electronic
access, low margins and an opportunity for individual investors to trade futures on the
world's best known stock index! Please take advantage of the following trading tools below
to educate yourself on how to trade these new products. Nows the time. It's your move.
Press Release
CBOT Mini-Sized Dow Shatters Former Daily Volume Record - October
9, 2002
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced that volume in
its CBOT mini-sized Dow Jones Index futures, which trades exclusively on the exchange's
electronic platform, set a new daily record on October 9, 2002 trading 27,049 contracts,
breaking the previous record of 20,800 contracts set on September 19. Since its launch in
April 2000, average monthly growth in the CBOT mini-sized Dow has been 17%, one of
strongest new product performance in exchange history.
The new daily volume record was reached a few weeks after
the CBOT launched a major marketing campaign for the mini-sized Dow in September,
including a new Dow Complex Portal at www.cbot.com/dow. In an industry first, the portal
includes real-time streaming quotes including Depth of Market ("the book"). This
function allows traders to view on their trading screen the best 10 bid-ask prices and
orders current in the market.
The portal also offers, free of charge, an on-line
interactive seminar, a real-time trading simulator, and an online investor
tutorial.
CBOT mini-sized Dow - Record Volume - September 19, 2002
The CBOT's new all-electronic mini-sized DowSM contract
continues to be in the spotlight with both the trading community and with the media. A new
volume record of 20,800 was set on September 19. This record breaks the one set the
previous day by over 4,000 contracts as day traders and other market users continue to
recognize the benefits of this contract. For the month of September, the average daily
contracts traded in the mini-sized Dow is up to 12,478.
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