The LME provides the market with three transparent and regulated platforms for trading industrial metal contracts.
Most of the world’s non-ferrous metals business is conducted on our three trading platforms:
- LMEselect (electronic)
- the Ring (open outcry)
- the 24-hour telephone market
The Ring
11:40 - 17:00 Our open-outcry trading platform, The Ring, is central to the process of price discovery.
LMEselect
01:00 - 19:00 Our highly liquid electronic platform for the trading of all LME contracts.
Inter-office telephone market
The Exchange also supports an inter-office telephone market between LME members, which operates 24 hours a day.
Trading times and dates
Information on trading times and dates for all LME metals.
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