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The CME Volume by Tick file is made available in the late evening for the previous day of trading. Files are named vtyymmdd.zip and contain four text files named vtyymmdd.div where div represents either the CME, International Monetary Market (IMM), Index and Option Market (IOM) or Growth and Emerging Markets (GEM) division.
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File Layout |
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| Length | From | To | Datatype* | Format | Description & Comments |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | AN | X(2) | Ticker Symbol |
| 9 | 3 | 11 | Filler | ||
| 2 | 12 | 13 | AN | X(2) | Commodity Code |
| 9 | 14 | 22 | Filler | ||
| 8 | 23 | 30 | N | N(8) | Contract Period Code as YYYYMMDD, where DD is 00 for standard monthly products |
| 1 | 31 | 31 | Filler | ||
| 1 | 32 | 32 | A | X(1) | Put / Call Code, if an option |
| 1 | 33 | 33 | Filler | ||
| 7 | 34 | 40 | N | 9(7) | Strike Price, if an option |
| 1 | 41 | 41 | Filler | ||
| 6 | 42 | 47 | N | 9(6) | Trade Date as YYMMDD |
| 1 | 48 | 48 | Filler | ||
| 6 | 49 | 54 | N | 9(6) | CTR Assigned Time as HHMMSS |
| 1 | 55 | 55 | Filler | ||
| 1 | 56 | 56 | N | 9(1) | Trade Type: 1=Non-spread; 6=Spread |
| 1 | 57 | 57 | Filler | ||
| 7 | 58 | 64 | N | 9(7) | Trade Price |
| 1 | 65 | 65 | Filler | ||
| 10 | 66 | 75 | N | 9(10) | Volume |
| * A=Alpha; N=Numeric | |||||