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ForexQ.com
Brokerage firm · United States
According to its official website, Advantage Futures is the brand of Advantage Futures LLC, founded in Chicago in 2003 by Joseph Guinan and based at 141 W. Jackson Blvd.; the company describes itself as among the highest-volume futures commission merchants (FCMs) and states that it processed 434 million contracts in 2025, has reached 6.1 billion contracts since inception and has funded clients in 34 countries and territories. According to the CFTC Regulation 1.55 disclosure document on the site, Advantage Futures LLC is the primary operating subsidiary of Advantage Financial LLC, is registered with the CFTC as an FCM, commodity pool operator (CPO), commodity trading advisor (CTA) and swap firm, is an NFA member (NFA ID 327359), and its wholly owned subsidiary Advantage Securities LLC is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer that does not currently clear any business. Clients include professional traders, proprietary trading groups, institutional clients, exchange-traded funds, non-clearing FCMs, hedge funds and individuals; the company is a clearing member of CME Group (CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX), ICE Futures Europe and Eurex and offers access to ICE Futures U.S., Cboe Futures Exchange, Montreal, MGEX and Asian exchanges, a 24-hour global execution desk, server colocation, exchange membership facilitation and trading facilities. Supported front ends include CQG, Trading Technologies X_Trader, Rithmic, Sierra Chart, T4, Stellar, Blue Trading Systems, Exegy Metro and the OnixS API. The site states that an account can be opened with an initial deposit of USD 10,000, that commissions depend on trading volume and margin utilisation, and that IRA accounts are available. According to the CFTC FCM list (30 Sep 2026), Advantage Futures LLC is registered as an FCM and has no retail forex obligation. This information is the company's own statement.
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Licences verified in official registers: CFTC (United States) – NFA ID 0327359; SEC (United States) – SEC 8-48652 · CRD 39362.
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