Clearing Process for Mock Electronic Trading Sessions

Clearing House Advisory Notices

To	Clearing Member Firms; Back Office Managers
From	CME Clearing
Subject	Clearing Process for Mock Electronic Trading Sessions
Notice Date	2007-11-27
Notice Number	07-293
Effective Date	2007-11-27
As previously announced, this Saturday, December 1, 2007, CME Group will conduct its first mock trading session for CBOT, KCBT and MGEX on CME Globex. This is the first of 5 mock sessions planned for December 2007 and January 2008 respectively. The purpose of the mock sessions is to emulate a full end-to-end test for participating firms. The focus of activity on Saturdays will be front end order entry and matching on Globex. Clearing processing, the posting of trades to Front End Clearing (FEC) and the delivery of clearing confirmation to firms will be executed on the Monday following the Saturday mock trade sessions. For the full text of this advisory...