Clearing House Advisory Notices
To | Clearing Member Firms and Back OFfice Managers
From | Clearing House Department
Subject | CBOT New Strike Format for Options on DJIA Futures Contracts
Notice Date | 2005-04-19
Notice Number | 05-69
Effective Date |
Effective for business day Monday, May 9, CBOT will shift the strike price format for its options on DJIA futures contract. The ticker code for these options is DJ and the clearing code is 11. This is analogous to the changes made for the options on the mini-sized Dow futures contract when 50-point strike intervals where introduced on February 14, 2005. The current changes to the DJIA Options contracts will allow them to be formatted in the same manner as the mini-sized Dow Options. There are no plans to introduce 50-point strike intervals for the DJIA Options contracts at this time. For the full text of this advisory...