Standard and E-mini Nasdaq-100 Weekly Options
European-style standard and E-mini NASDAQ-100 weekly options expand trading opportunities on our benchmark equity index products.

A weekly expiration is now available for every Friday of the contract month except for the third Friday, the expiration day of existing American-style quarterly and serial options. In months that have five Fridays (October 2010, for example), a Week 5 weekly expiration will be listed for trading.

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Benefits

• Expanded choice.
  • Complementary to existing quarterly/serial options that expire on the third Friday, weekly options add expirations to other Fridays of the contract month.
  • The result is a more complete trading calendar and choice of exercise styles (European-style for weekly options, American-style for quarterly /serial options).
• Precision timing from shorter durations.
  • Weekly options offer precise, strategic tools you can use to target market movements stemming from new economic releases or market events taking place in specific time frames.
• Exercise certainty / elimination of pin risk.
  • These contracts offer European-style exercise and prohibit contrarian instructions -- meaning that, at expiration, all in-the-money options are automatically exercised and all out-of-the money options are automatically abandoned.
  • This eliminates options writers’ pin risk from having positions disrupted from early exercise or contrary exercise instructions.
• NQF expiration.
  • As with weekly options on S&P 500 futures, at expiration CME will calculate a special fixing price based on the weighted-average trading price of E-mini NASDAQ-100 futures in the last 30 seconds (2:59:30 – 3:00:00) prior to the 3:00 p.m. (Chicago time) option expiration.
  • This price will be disseminated immediately using the symbol NQF, and will be used to determine which weekly options are in the money.
  
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CME Group offers a Week 4 weekly option on standard and E-mini S&P 500 futures designed to expire on the fourth Friday of the contract month. These contracts further round out a comprehensive trading calendar that includes Week 1 and Week 2 expirations on the first and second Fridays of the contract month, end-of-month expirations on the last business day of the contract month, and quarterly /serial expirations on the third Friday of the contract month.

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ESF fixing price
Like end-of-month options, at expiration, CME calculates a special fixing price (applied to both the E-mini and standard-size S&P 500 weekly options) based on the weighted-average trading price of E-mini S&P 500 futures in the last 30 seconds (2:59:30 – 3:00:00) before the 3:00 p.m. Chicago time option expiration. This price will be disseminated immediately using the symbol ESF, and is used to determine which weekly and EOM options are in the money.

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