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Futures and options

Global access, bespoke coverage

Take advantage of a specific market view or participate in the performance of a single share market without holding the cash stock. HSBC fully supports clients' futures trading requirements with brokers on specialist sales desks across all time zones, and 24-hour desks in Hong Kong and Chicago.

Get professional market coverage and execution and high-quality clearing services backed by the financial strength and integrity of the HSBC Group. Our strong presence in Europe, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America provides significant relative advantage in understanding complexities of the domestic markets. Our specialist sales approach provides you with best-in-class access to institutional investors at different levels.

We offer a number of electronic trading solutions, including FFastfill, Bloomberg EMSX, Trading Technologies, Bloomberg Tradebook Trading Technologies and our own in-house front-end order management system, HSBC Futures Direct.

Take advantage of a flexible account and reporting structure, single currency margining, multi-product settlement, 24-hour clearing and client services across all liquid products, plus bespoke post-trade automation. We committed to operational excellence in clearing services.

Futures Direct e-Trade

Futures Direct is an internet browser-based platform that gives you control of your trading environment. It's fast, accurate and safe to the highest industry standards.

Stay connected to our support through Futures Direct, our e-Trading platform.

The Futures Direct browser-based straight-through processing trading platform lets you customise its windows, so that before you begin trading, you have a tool that is uniquely your own – one that you can trade best on. But that doesn't mean that you will be left on your own. At any point of a deal entry, you can call us and request our account managers to take direct control of orders.

HSBC Futures supports a number of electronic trading platforms, including:

  • Trading Technologies (TT) over TT native gateways and over HSBC FIX where no native gateway is available
  • Bloomberg Tradebook and Bloomberg EMS
  • FFastfill for LME
  • GL Trade on customer request
  • TORA and Horizon over our FIX network
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Futures Direct Clearing

Our web-based enquiry and reporting system allows customers to keep track of trading activities via the internet using a standard web browser.

Exchange memberships

HSBC Futures has memberships on over 30 exchanges worldwide and access to over 60. We are on all the major futures and options exchanges, either as a direct member or through third-party intermediaries, helping you with trade executions and clearing.

We are a direct member of the exchanges listed below.
Note: Clicking on these links will lead you to websites which are not associated with HSBC, and which may be governed by their own terms of use.

North America Code
Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros BM&F
CME Group Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME
CME Group Chicago Board of Trade CBOT
CME Group Commodity Exchange of New York COMEX
CME Group New York Mercantile Exchange NYMEX
Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOE
ICE Futures US ICE
International Securities Exchange ISE
NYSE Euronext New York NYSE Euronext
NASDAQ OMX PHLX PHLX
Europe Code
Athens Derivative Exchange ADEX
EUREX EUREX
ICE Futures Europe ICE
NYSE Euronext Amsterdam NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext Paris NYSE Euronext
NYSE Liffe LIFFE
London Metal Exchange LME
Turquoise TGHL
Asia Code
ASX ASX
Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai BSE
Hong Kong Exchange HKEx
National Stock Exchange (India) NSE
Osaka Securities Exchange OSE
Singapore Exchange SGX
Tokyo Financial Exchange TFX
Tokyo Stock Exchange TSE

We offer third-party exchange access on these exchanges.
Note: Clicking on these links will lead you to websites which are not associated with HSBC, and which may be governed by their own terms of use.

Code Third-party exchange access
IDEM Borsa Italiana
BOX Boston Options Exchange
ICE Futures Canada ICE Futures Canada
KCBT Kansas City Board of Trade
KRX Korea Exchange
MexDer Mexico Derivatives Exchange
MGEX Minneapolis Grain Exchange
TMX Montreal Exchange
NASDAQ OMX NASDAQ OMX
NYSE Euronext NYSE Euronext Brussels
NYSE Euronext NYSE Euronext Lisbon
TMX Toronto Stock Exchange
WSE Warsaw Stock Exchange
WB Wiener Boerse
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For professional, corporate or institutional clients of HSBC Global Banking and Markets, please contact your relationship manager for more information.

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