Trading Resources

With LindConnect, you'll quickly and easily find what you need to trade futures online, including contract specifications, margins, trading hours and other important market information.

Reference Shelf

The Reference Shelf area is your place to find what you need to know before you trade. Some of the information in this area includes:

• Futures Margin Requirements
  You'll be able to see if the futures contract you want to trade is acceptable based on the margin available in your account. Initial, maintenance and hedge margins posted online are current with Lind-Waldock requirements.

• Contract Specifications
  Understand the futures contract you're going to trade by becoming familiar with its trading specifications, including tick value, expiration dates and more.

• Futures Trading Calendar
  Find important dates for futures and options contracts. You'll know the last trading day, expiration date, first notice day and more at a glance.

• Links
  Find links to futures exchanges and government agencies, outside the Lind-Waldock Web site.

• Single-Stock Futures Information
  Find trading information specific to security futures trading.

• Order Policies
  Find information on trade cancellation and order policies at e-cbot, side-by-side markets and single-stock futures.

• Downloadable Publications
  Learn how to choose and submit the order type that best suits your trading intention with our Order Placement Guide. Help establish a trading plan with essential trading rules provided in our Method Trading Guide. Keep track of your trades with our Buy/Sell Record Book.

• Fair Value Calculator
  This useful tool shows the price relationship between the cash stock indexes and stock index futures, and can help determine whether the futures might be priced too high or too low.

News–Message Board

The News/Message Board area keeps you up-to-date with important announcements from Lind-Waldock and futures exchanges worldwide. We even provide online alerts when there's market information we feel you need to know—now! This area includes announcements of futures and commodities exchange product launches, policies and developments, and timely financial and weather news.