Comparison

CME Group vs The Macro Compass

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CME Group

This app provides access to a diverse derivatives marketplace, offering tools for market insight and strategic planning. Track futures and options, practice with a trading simulator, and receive alerts on market movements and block trades.

Highlights
  • Product watchlists
  • Simulated trading environment
  • Trading challenges
  • Push notifications for trades and price moves
  • Delayed market data
  • Economic research and analysis
  • Block trade viewing
  • Interactive charts
Features
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Enhance Your Trading Edge with CME Group Mobile Stay ahead in the fast-paced world of derivatives with the CME Group Mobile app. Whether you're a seasoned trader or just starting, our app connects you to the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, 24/7. Now featuring product watchlists and a powerful trading simulator, CME Group Mobile is your essential tool for market insight and strategic planning. With CME Group Mobile, you can effortlessly track the futures and options products you care about, right from your mobile device. Hone your strategies and explore market scenarios using our simulated trading environment, designed to help you understand market dynamics without real-world risk. Key Features: • Create and Follow Product Watchlists: Customize and monitor the futures and options products most relevant to your trading interests. • Simulated Trading Environment: Practice and refine your trading strategies with our intuitive trading simulator functionality, perfect for learning market movements and testing hypotheses. • Trading Challenges: Compete against others in a simulated trading environment • Alerts: Receive push notifications for Block Trades and significant moves in price • Market Data: Stay up-to-date with delayed quote data, daily volume, and open interest for a comprehensive market overview. • Economic Research: Get expert insights and analysis of market events, major economic themes and trends driving opportunities. • Block Trades: View real-time block trades and filter by type to focus on the information that matters most to you. • QuikStrike Analytics: Gain deeper market insights with our suite of powerful QuikStrike analytics tools. • Cross-Device Sync: Your personalized watchlists and settings sync seamlessly across your desktop and iOS devices with CME Group Login. • Interactive Charts: Tap on charts to analyze trends and patterns.

About

The Macro Compass

Features
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The Long-Term Investor Report: Weekly deep dives into the most relevant recent macro events, their impact on markets and implications for long-term investors; published 1x/week The All-Round Investor Report: Fed or ECB meeting? Inflation or labor market report out? Big market moves? This timely and actionable report will cover portfolio implications as soon as events unfold; published 1-2x/week. Macro Snippets: Every day, Alf covers the most relevant macro news and market developments. This timely market color and macro reflections will help you make sense of what's going on in markets. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://themacrocompass.org/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

CME Group4 screens
The Macro Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: The Macro Compass at 13.0 against CME Group's 16.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CME Group versus The Macro Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCME GroupThe Macro Compass
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB8 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCME Group, Inc.Alf Investment Strategy B.v.

Bugs and requests

CME Group

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Quotes and watchlists disappearing
  • Forced portrait mode on iPad
  • Errors when signing up

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add multi-language support
  • Improve widget functionality
  • Enhance charting capabilities
  • Introduce customization options

The Macro Compass

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CME Group

No in-app purchases

None

The Macro Compass

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CME Group free?
CME Group is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Macro Compass free?
The Macro Compass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CME Group or The Macro Compass have ads?
Neither CME Group nor The Macro Compass shows ads.

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