ROFEX (Rosario Future Exchange)

ROFEX (Rosario Future Exchange)

ROFEX is the future and option market in Rosario, founded in 1909. This market, which began operating with commodity products, can now offer a wide range of financial products.

Since July 1998, ROFEX uses a new system which calculates profit margins based on the simulation of real market scenarios -just like the most important markets around the world- guaranteeing transparency and efficiency

ROFEX is the only future market in South America which registers, compensates and guaranties its contracts through a Compensating Committee of future and options.

MATba (Buenos Aires’ Mercado a Término)

MATba is an entity which registers and guarantees futures and options transactions,
receiving and processing all kind of local and international information about different variables which have influence on quoted commodities prices.

Future transactions allow demand and supply to adjust themselves in order to avoid sharp fluctuations in commodities’ prices such as grains, whose main features are a seasonal supply and a permanent demand.

Reference Market
Chicago

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established in 1848, is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. More than 3,600 CBOT members trade 50 different futures and options products at the exchange through open auction and/or electronically. Volume at the Exchange in 2005 surpassed 674 million contracts