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Weekly Expirations for Eurodollar 1-Year Midcurve Options
Weekly Expirations for Eurodollar 1-Year Midcurve Options

Weekly expirations on the Eurodollar One-Year Mid-Curve 0ptions give risk managers the opportunity to trade Eurodollar options with high gamma on one of the most actively traded Eurodollar futures expirations, the fifth quarterly or first "Red" contract.
At any one time, there are at least five expirations available, including the regular "Serial" or "Quarterly" One-Year Mid-Curve expiration which would normally expire during the calendar month. The options expire at the conclusion of trading on each Friday that is not an expiration day for a Quarterly or a Serial One-Year Mid-Curve option.
Weekly Mid-Curve option expirations offer a new way for traders to take a view on upcoming economic releases and their effect upon the U.S. interest rate markets.

Read a strategy paper on Weekly Mid-Curve options (PDF), written by David Boberski of Bear Stearns.
View a calendar of serial, quarterly and weekly mid-curve expirations (PDF), and TOMMi expirations, to see the opportunities available.

Selected vendor quote symbols and contract specifications for Weekly Mid-Curve options are listed below. 

Vendor Name Open Outcry CME Globex

CQG for Windows

*Please contact CQG Directly (800) 525-1085

*Please contact CQG Directly at:
(800) 525-1085

E-Signal

1K-5K

E01 - E05

ILX Thomson

BL,BM,BN,BT,BW

BX,XH,XL,XR,XZ

Reuters IDN

0#EGW+

0#GFW+

Reuters/Bridge BIS

us@1K.1

us@1EG.1

Bloomberg

Weekly Code + Underlying future month/year + <Commodity> + Option Monitor Function (i.e., for December 8, 2006 expiration, type "2KZ7 <Commodity Key> OMON <Go Key>") This will display individual calls and puts at different strike prices. Or, type in the number of the expiration week in that month (e.g., 1KA, 2KA, 3KA, 4KA, 5KA) then <Commodity Key> OMON <Go Key>

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Summary of Contract Specification - Weekly CME Eurodollar One-Year Mid-Curve Options

Underlying Contract

One CME Eurodollar futures contract that expires twelve calendar months from the next March quarterly month that is nearest to the expiration of the option; e.g., for the weekly expiration of June 8, 2007, the underlying futures contract is the June 2008 CME Eurodollar futures contract. For the weekly expiration of June 22, 2007, the underlying futures contract is the September 2008 CME Eurodollar futures contract.

Expiration /
Last Day of Trading

Option trading terminates at the conclusion of trading on each Friday that is not an expiration day for Quarterly or Serial One-Year Mid-Curve Options.

Ticker /
Clearing Code

Open Outcry / Clearing Code:
1K, 2K, 3K, 4K, 5K for the first to fifth weekly expiration, respectively.
CME Globex:
E01, E02, E03, E04, E05, for the first to fifth weekly expiration, respectively.
Note: In the case of a weekly expiration coinciding with a Serial/Quarterly expiration, the contract is identified as the Serial/Quarterly option.

Listing Cycle

Weekly expirations shall be listed such that, inclusive of the serial (or quarterly) expiration already listed, five consecutive weekly expirations are available for trading. E.g., on April 16, 2007, the following expirations on the June 2008 CME Eurodollar futures shall be available for trading (clearing code in bracket): April 20 (3KJ7), April 27 (4Kj7), May 4 (1KK7), May 11, (E0K7 - serial Mid-Curve option) and May 18 (3KK7).

Quotation /
Tick Increment

In IMM Index Points - each 0.01 IMM index point is equivalent to $25.00.
Minimum price fluctuation of 0.005 IMM index point.

Strike Listing Convention

Same as the nearest Serial One-Year Mid-Curve Options - at 0.25 IMM index point intervals within 5.50 IMM index points of the at-the-money strike, plus the nearest half-strike above and below the at-the-money strike.

Block Trade Facility

From 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays on regular business days: minimum threshold of 4,000 contracts in outright trade, or 4,000 of at least one leg in a combination trade.
For all hours outside of 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays on regular business days: minimum threshold of 500 contracts.

Trading Venue /
Trading Hour

Open Outcry: 7:20 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Chicago time; CME Globex Electronic Markets: 5:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. the following; on Sunday, trading begins at 5:00 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact the
CME Group Interest Rate Products at 866-501-3646 or interestrates@cmegroup.com.

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