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Top 25 Futures trading platforms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 50 futures trading platforms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 11,588 professional contacts across them, including 4,540 with verified work emails and 3,571 with mobile numbers. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers futures trading platforms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 12, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest futures trading platforms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,947 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,964 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Topstep didn’t enter the prop trading space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,598 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cboe Global Markets (Cboe) is the leading exchange network for global derivatives, foreign exchange, digital asset and securities trading solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 446 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “R.J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 429 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NinjaTrader: Driving innovation, empowering traders, and building a global community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ADM Investor Services, Inc.(“ADMIS”) has been a leader in the futures brokerage industry for 60 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SpiderRock is a leading provider of advanced trading, risk management, and data solutions for global derivatives markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advantage Futures ranks among the high volume futures brokers in the industry-processing over 3.8 billion contracts since inception in 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sterling offers trading platforms, OMS and infrastructure solutions and risk and margin tools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sweet Futures is a leading and global Commodity Futures, Options and Over-The-Counter Brokerage group headquartered in the US, in the Chicago Board of Trade building.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Charlesworth Research is a proprietary trading firm active in futures, options, and equities across more than 30 exchanges worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A registered Futures Commission Merchant ("FCM") providing brokerage, clearing, execution and technology services for Exchange Traded Futures and Option Contacts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Futures Brokers located in the legendary Chicago Board of Trade building since 1988.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AMP Global Clearing is a Chicago-based Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) providing access to the global electronic futures markets for Individual Traders, US & Foreign Introducing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TradeDay is the fastest growing futures funding platform that offers extensive educational resources and professional mentoring services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DFlow builds internet-native market structure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Mission is to put the customer first and that means bringing you the best customer service, consistent and reliable research and state of the art technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “QT INFO SYSTEMS, INC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HighGround Trading Group is a boutique futures brokerage specializing in providing clients with custom product solutions, cutting-edge trading platforms, traditional brokerage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CTS is a fully hosted professional futures and options trading platform that maintains direct connectivity to many of the world's largest exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With experienced professionals in both the US and Chinese markets, Huatai USA creates comprehensive solutions for individual and institutional clients trading futures and options…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GoCharting is a web-native, multi-asset orderflow trading platform trusted by more than 2 million registered traders globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Born from frustration with outdated brokers and overpriced platforms, MetroTrade represents the next generation of retail futures trading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2004, Cardinal Capital Management is in the business of financial market-making, providing liquidity to investors trading on a variety of Chicago-based exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sarna Technologies leverages the latest advancements in technology to respond to the growing needs of broker dealers, professional traders, clearing firms, and exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: futures trading platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names futures trading platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of futures trading platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name futures trading platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Futures trading platforms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
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Freshness & accuracy
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Median 14.0dCompany record updated
Median 74.0dHow this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among futures trading platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “futures trading platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names futures trading platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among futures trading platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,540 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 12, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Futures trading platforms by metro in the United States
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names futures trading platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many futures trading platforms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 50 futures trading platforms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
CME Group, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most futures trading platforms?
Chicago leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by New York (20) and Orlando (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,540 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 50 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 12, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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