Well then... isn't it incumbent upon you teach them a lesson... to be a smart player and SHOVE IT UP THEIR COLLECTIVE BUTTS for fading your smart-ness?
I can agree with that but in practice, I don’t find it better. The ICE offers some products that are virtually identical to CME products. I find them more expensive and ICE does not offer non-pro data. When you compare the CME with one order book with US Equites and how fragmented they are, I prefer one order book.
In the mid 90's I did quite a bit of stock trading. Once I got into futures 14 years ago, I rarely trade stocks. I for one am very thankful that CME even exists, for a wide variety of reasons. They also continue to introduce micro contracts that are liquid enough and very utilitarian; as just one example the MHG, micro copper has made me some nice dough recently. Thanks to their efforts to build a world-class operation, I have the key futures market vehicles I need to make a living. Long ago I stopped using ICE, they shot themselves in the foot when they started charging a ridiculously large monthly fee for access to their precious data and platform. Perhaps some day they will reverse course, their dollar index was a handy tool many years ago for me.
%% Good points; i hate to say too much aginst them ,good traders ed + IBD ads.. And CME, in SPY, Fidelity500, Vanguard 500. [And disclosed ES = ''designed to trade''LOL] I was a bit suprised when they let CME merge with CBOT