HedgeStreet® is the first Internet-based, government regulated market where traders can hedge against or speculate on price movements in currency, commodity, and equity index markets. HedgeStreet significantly expands the investment, risk-hedging, and profit-making opportunities available to traders at all levels.
HedgeStreet's site www.hedgestreet.com enables members to trade small, inexpensive, easy-to-understand binary option and bungee contracts in forex, commodity, and equity index markets.
HedgeStreet offers its members new profit opportunities and strategies as well as more cost efficient and direct hedging mechanisms. Leveraging the Internet, a highly efficient trading platform, and expert financial instrument designers, HedgeStreet offers the variety of contracts necessary to empower private individuals to manage the particular risks they face. HedgeStreet currently offers contracts in currencies, commodity, and equity index markets. HedgeStreet plans to introduce new products and make available new markets on the HedgeStreet Exchange throughout 2008. HedgeStreet members have access to a complete trading system including order entry, market depth, historical data services, cash accounting, and position reporting.
HedgeStreet is a secure, fully-transparent marketplace, subject to regulatory oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). HedgeStreet, Inc., which owns and operates the HedgeStreet Exchange, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UK-based IG Holdings Group plc and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
