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The latest CME malfunction is far longer than an hours-long outage in 2019, which will mean questions for the company about its contingency plans.

Spot trading is the simplest: You buy and own Bitcoin outright. Futures trading is a bet on future prices with higher risks and rewards. Options trading gives you flexibility: You can buy if it benefits you or walk away. Margin trading allows bigger trades ...

The outage, which lasted for 10 hours, hit CME’s equity, bond and commodity futures. It also offered a warning.