CME Direct Software Enhancement Coming Soon

On Sunday, August 7, 2016 (trade date Monday, August 8), CME Direct users will receive a software upgrade. The software release contains several enhancements as well as few bug fixes. Highlights include:

• Market Activity row coloring by activity type (RFQ, Trade, Blocks, Invoice Blocks and Cross)
• Options Greeks available for Excel
• Displaying Cleared Volume and Open Interest values in contracts vs. mmBtu for the Henry Hub Financial Future (NN) and Natural Gas Basis contracts
• Incorporating underlying Futures price changes in the calculations for theoretical values (Theo) of hedged options
• Establishing new default Reference Price (Ref) logic for Options hedges

For detailed information on these new features and all of the other enhancements included in this release, please view the CME Direct Release Notes.

If you receive an “out-of-date” notification when attempting to launch CME Direct following the software update, please use this link to open the application: https://cmedirect.cmegroup.com

If you have any questions, please contact the CME Global Command Center in the US at +1 800 438 8616, in Europe at +44 207 623 4747 or in Asia at +65 6532 5010.