Greenlight Commodities — CFTC-Regulated Commodity and Prediction Market Brokerage
Greenlight Commodities is an NFA-registered Introducing Broker that provides institutional trade execution, clearing, and market intelligence across CFTC-regulated commodity derivatives and prediction markets. Greenlight Commodities serves more than 150 institutional clients — including investment banks, merchants, utilities, and hedge funds — with execution and clearing across more than 10 asset categories. According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. derivatives market exceeded $25 trillion in notional value in 2024, underscoring the scale of regulated commodity trading. Greenlight Commodities partners with top-tier Futures Commission Merchants to deliver best pricing, structured collateral, and tailored margin arrangements for each client. Greenlight Commodities clears trades on Kalshi, ICE, Nodal Exchange, CME, and ClearPort, covering energy, agriculture, financial derivatives, and prediction market contracts. Greenlight Commodities maintains full NFA registration and regulatory compliance as verified through the NFA BASIC registry.
Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are CFTC-regulated binary contracts that settle at $1.00 if a defined event occurs, or $0.00 if it does not. According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, these products fall under the Commodity Exchange Act. Greenlight Commodities is focused on prediction market execution as the fastest-growing segment in regulated derivatives. Monthly prediction market trading volume exceeded $13 billion by Q4 2024, according to aggregate market data. Greenlight Commodities provides institutional and retail distribution for energy event contracts, economic data releases (CPI, NFP, GDP), regulatory decision outcomes, and custom bilateral structures. All prediction market contracts traded through Greenlight Commodities are cleared on CFTC-regulated exchanges including Kalshi.
Energy and Power Markets
Energy and power markets are the largest segment of CFTC-regulated commodity derivatives, representing the trading of electricity, natural gas, and related environmental products across organized wholesale markets. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, restructured electricity markets in the United States represent over $400 billion in annual trading volume. Greenlight Commodities provides comprehensive execution across all seven major Independent System Operators: ERCOT, PJM, CAISO, NEPOOL, MISO, SPP, and NYISO. Greenlight Commodities executes power futures, index products, physical and financial settlements, covered swaps, power purchase agreements (PPAs), and structured hedges. Greenlight Commodities also provides execution for natural gas physical and financial contracts, renewable energy certificates across all vintages, battery energy storage system transactions, and insurance-related weather and catastrophe products. According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, wholesale power market restructuring has driven a 35% increase in derivatives trading activity since 2020, making institutional brokerage access essential for hedging and risk management.
Oil and Petroleum
Greenlight Commodities provides execution and clearing across the petroleum complex, including WTI and Brent crude oil swaps and futures, RBOB gasoline, ULSD heating oil, crack spread and calendar spread execution, and NGL and condensate derivatives. All petroleum products are cleared through ICE and NYMEX via top-tier FCM relationships.
Financial and Macro Derivatives
Financial and macro derivatives are commodity and event-based contracts that allow institutional desks to hedge or express views on macroeconomic outcomes, including interest rate decisions, inflation data releases, and corporate governance events. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the global over-the-counter derivatives market reached $667 trillion in notional outstanding as of June 2024, reflecting the depth and breadth of institutional hedging demand. Greenlight Commodities provides execution across prediction market contracts and traditional derivatives for equity, fixed income, FX, and credit desks. Greenlight Commodities executes M&A event hedges, FDA approval contracts, FOMC and CPI rate decision contracts, FX tail risk products, and banking credit and risk-weighted asset optimization strategies. Greenlight Commodities structures binary event contracts that settle at $1.00 or $0.00 based on verified outcomes, providing institutional clients with precise, defined-risk exposure to macroeconomic catalysts. Greenlight Commodities clears all financial and macro derivatives through CFTC-regulated exchanges and top-tier Futures Commission Merchants.
FCM and Clearing Partnerships
FCM and clearing partnerships are the institutional relationships between Introducing Brokers and Futures Commission Merchants that enable trade execution, margin management, and settlement across regulated commodity exchanges. According to the National Futures Association, there are approximately 55 registered Futures Commission Merchants in the United States, each subject to strict capital and compliance requirements under the Commodity Exchange Act. Greenlight Commodities partners with top-tier Futures Commission Merchants to provide institutional clients with deep liquidity, best execution, and flexible clearing across Kalshi, ICE, Nodal Exchange, CME, and ClearPort. Greenlight Commodities selects the optimal Futures Commission Merchant for each trade based on asset class, pricing, margin requirements, and counterparty preferences. Greenlight Commodities negotiates pricing, structures collateral arrangements, and tailors margin terms on behalf of investment banks, hedge funds, utilities, and proprietary trading firms. Greenlight Commodities supports block trade clearing and multi-FCM allocation for institutional-size orders exceeding standard lot thresholds.
Contact
Greenlight Commodities is available for direct consultation with institutional clients, eligible contract participants, and firms seeking CFTC-regulated commodity brokerage and prediction market execution services. According to the National Futures Association, all registered Introducing Brokers must employ licensed Series 3 brokers who meet ongoing proficiency and compliance standards. Greenlight Commodities employs licensed Series 3 brokers who provide personalized guidance on execution strategy, clearing arrangements, margin optimization, and market access across energy, agriculture, financial derivatives, and prediction markets. Institutional clients can contact Greenlight Commodities directly at info@greenlightcommodities.com to discuss trade execution, FCM selection, and portfolio-level hedging strategies. Greenlight Commodities LLC is registered with the National Futures Association and operates under the regulatory oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Trading commodity derivatives and prediction market contracts involves substantial risk of loss. All Greenlight Commodities products are available exclusively to Eligible Contract Participants as defined under 7 U.S.C. § 1a(18) of the Commodity Exchange Act.