Robinhood Markets will soon expand its trading products by launching futures trading in cryptocurrencies, stocks, and foreign exchange markets. This movement will be done in cooperation with CME Group, one of the world’s leading derivative markets.
According to the Wednesday press release, the new futures contracts that the US qualified Robin Hood users in the United States will use in the next few weeks will be five major asset classes.
More liquidity
Traders can access futures related to four major US stock indexes, including S & P 500, NASDAQ-100, Russell 2000, Dow Jones Industry AVERAGE, and popular cryptocurrency bitcoin and ether.
Robinhood adds a major FX currency pair, major metals such as gold, silver, copper, and energy products for energy products such as crude oil and natural gas.
Futures trading began to be deployed. stay tuned. https://t.co/9y1f57nuwb
-Robinhood (@robinhoodapp) January 29, 2025
Julie Winkler, CME Group’s highest commercial manager, explained the reasons behind the futures, and said that retail investors were increasingly interested in futures trading. The purpose is to respond to customers who are looking for a method of diversifying portfolios.
“Expanding retail access to futures trading is an essential step for educating and strengthening this new investor,” said Winkler, saying, “Today’s most important market today. We have added that it will help to provide the “products and resources necessary to utilize”.
According to Robinhood’s Futures and International VP and GM JB Mackenzie, the company has built a “new mobile trading ladder” focusing only on futures trading. Mackenzie claimed that active traders who need to respond quickly to market movements will benefit from competitive prices in addition to the ease of use and speed of new interfaces.
Dangerous transactions
Investor education is an important focus of CME Group and Robinhood. As mentioned in the press release, the CME Group provides resources such as CME Institute and Futures Fundamentals, and Robinhood provides articles focusing on Robinhood Learn futures. Robinhood plans to publish an educational YouTube video.
In October 2024, Robinhood Markets announced that it will add futures and index options with reddened trading platforms. The announcement shows the shift of a Mome stock and a securities company known for beginner investors to try established players such as interactive brokers and Charles Shwab.
At that time, Robinhood stated that the futures trading had 50 cents for Robinhood Gold members and 75 cents for other customers. The company has also introduced an index option supported by the CBOE Global Market. It is sold for 35 cents per Gold member contract and 50 cents to non -gold clients.
The recent political transition in the United States has caused some changes to the Robin Hood list. Following the re -election of Donald Trump last November, securities companies re -list XRP, SOL, and ADA.
SEC regarded XRP as a security and sales of XRP as a security provision for unregistered litigation against the Ripple Labs and its founders. Last year, after regulatory authorities began a lawsuit against Binance and Coinbase, execution measures began to intensify.
The movement of Robin Hood at that time was considered part of the efforts to comply with the regulatory guidelines. Now that the United States welcomes the president of the parent crypto and quickly acquired the CEC chairman of the Crypto, the regulatory environment is no longer hostile, and the hope that it is becoming more and -friendly.
Robinhood has also announced that it has also begun to support the popular Memecoin and Pepe transactions after Trump.
Apart from listing and futures trading rollouts, tokenization seems to be an area where Robin Hood is establishing vision.
In recent opinions in the Washington Post, the company’s CEO VLAD TENEV has urged SecEC to update the rules of investors to make the startup into token. TENEV believes that the current “certified investors” are restricted and restricted opportunities for ordinary investors to participate in private markets.