The London Metal Exchange offers a range of futures and options contracts for non-ferrous & minor metals, steel and plastics. 

The Exchange provides a transparent forum for all trading activity and as a result helps to ‘discover’ what the price of material will be months and years ahead. This helps the physical industry to plan forward in a world subject to often severe and rapid price movements. Such is the liquidity at the Exchange that the prices ‘discovered’ at the LME are recognised and relied upon by industry throughout the world. 

The LME is a highly liquid market and in 2009 achieved volumes of 111.9 million lots, equivalent to $7.41 trillion annually and $29 billion on an average business day. Based in London the LME is a global market with an international membership and with more than 95% of its business coming from overseas.