Futures Trading Infographic | Understanding the Futures Trading Landscape

Since Optimus Futures is an Independent Introducing Broker that plays a part in every aspect of our clients trading operations, we created this Futures Trading Infographic to help you visualize the trading infrastructure and show you all the participants involved in helping you trade futures.

Understand the interconnected relationship between the customers, platforms, datafeeds, brokers, futures commission merchants (FCM) and Commodity Exchanges and take a journey down the order path to gain a better understanding of our futures trading ecosystem.

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