On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, CME will launch trading in Gold TRAKRS futures contracts with a Special Opening Procedure.  Regular GLOBEX trading of these new products will commence Thursday, December 4, 2003.

The details of the Special Opening Procedure were published on October 22, 2003 as part of Special Executive Report S-4014. We are issuing this advisory to highlight these special procedures.  Details on the unique clearing and bookkeeping aspects of TRAKRS contracts were previously published in Clearing House Advisory Notice 02-49.  For the complete text of this advisory and for other documentation on TRAKRS, please see the TRAKRS page on the CME web site at .

03-98 Special Opening Procedures for Gold TRAKRS Futures