Welcome to the CME Globex Notices summary for the week of January 1, 2006.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your
CME Globex Account Manager at 312.634.8700; or
at +44.207.623.2550 in Europe.
Reminder: NYMEX SOFTS on CME Globex
Effective
this Sunday, January 7, 2007 (for trade date Monday, January 8), the following
NYMEX SOFTS
TM
futures and spreads will launch on the CME Globex electronic trading platform.
| New NYMEX SOFTS on CME Globex |
| Product |
Product Code |
Instrument
Group Code |
Spreads |
| Cocoa |
CJ |
CJ |
Calendar |
| Coffee |
KT |
KT |
Calendar |
| Cotton |
TT |
TT |
Calendar |
| Frozen Concentrated OJ (FCOJ) |
FJ |
FJ |
Calendar |
| Sugar 11 |
YO |
YO |
Calendar |
| Sugar 14 |
FT |
FT |
Calendar |
These products are currently available in the CME certification environment for customer
testing.
More information on the NYMEX SOFTS is available
online. CME Globex contract specifications for these products are available in
the
NYMEX Snapshot.
More information on NYMEX and COMEX products on the CME Globex platform is available at
www.nymexoncmeglobex.com.
NYMEX Gulf Coast Products on CME
Globex
Effective
this Sunday, January 7, 2007, in preparation for a later launch, the following new
NYMEX Gulf Coast futures, spreads and TAS contracts will be available for customer testing in the
CME certification environment.
| New NYMEX Gulf Coast Products on CME Globex |
| Product |
Product Code |
Instrument
Group Code |
Spreads |
| Gulf Coast Gasoline |
LR |
CL |
Calendar |
| Gulf Coast Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) |
LU |
CL |
Calendar |
| New Intercommodity Spreads |
| Gulf Coast Gasoline vs. RBOB |
LR:RB |
CL |
|
| Gulf Coast Gasoline vs. Gulf Coast ULSD |
LR:LU |
CL |
|
| Gulf Coast ULSD vs. Heating Oil |
LU:HO |
CL |
|
| New TAS Instruments |
| Gulf Coast Gasoline TAS |
LRT |
CT |
|
| Gulf Coast Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) TAS |
LUT |
CT |
|
CME Globex contract specifications for these products are available in the
NYMEX Snapshot.
More information on NYMEX and COMEX products on the CME Globex platform is available at
www.nymexoncmeglobex.com.
Reminder: NYMEX iPort 3-2-1 Plus Index on
CME Globex
Effective
Sunday, January 21, 2007 (for trade date Monday, January 22), the NYMEX iPort
TM
3-2-1 Plus futures, spreads and TAS contracts will launch on the CME Globex
electronic trading platform.
| NYMEX iPort 3-2-1 Products on CME Globex |
| Product |
Product Code |
Instrument
Group Code |
Spreads |
| NYMEX iPort 3-2-1 Plus |
WX |
WX |
Calendar |
| NYMEX iPort 3-2-1 Plus TAS |
WXT |
WT |
|
NYMEX iPort products are new index and portfolio instruments, designed to maximize potential
exposure and hedge sector risk in energy and metals markets. NYMEX iPort indexes are different
combinations of benchmark NYMEX contracts. The NYMEX 3-2-1 Plus Index equals the sum of the value
of the nearest NYMEX futures contracts divided by ten, as follows: three NYMEX Light Sweet Crude
Oil contracts, two NYMEX RBOB contracts, one NYMEX Heating Oil contract, and one NYMEX Natural Gas
contract.
These new NYMEX iPort products will be available for customer testing in the certification
environment
this Sunday, January 7.
CME Globex contract specifications for these products are available in the
NYMEX Snapshot.
More information on NYMEX and COMEX products on the CME Globex platform is available at
www.nymexoncmeglobex.com.
Reminder: CME Market Data Platform
Change
As previously announced, effective
Sunday, January 21, 2007, CME is removing all of the following market data
messages from the CME Market Data Platform administration channel (2) in the production
environment.
- Instrument Creation (MO) messages
- Trading Day Timetables (MH) messages
- Group State Change Marker (MJ) messages
- Start of CME Globex Platform (MK) messages
- Start of Instrument Referential Broadcasting (ML) messages
- End of Instrument Referential Broadcasting (MM) messages
As of Sunday, January 21, these messages will be disseminated only via their respective CME
Market Data Platform product data channels.
These same market data messages have been removed from the Administration channel (2) in the
certification environment, and in both the certification and production environment for CME Equity,
FX and Commodity options only.
There is no change to the Instrument Creation (MO) Messages - Replay Only and Instrument
Creation (MO) Messages - Replay Only (Excluding CME Eurodollar Options) channels (1 and 16).
CME strongly recommends customers use the Instrument Creation (MO) Messages - Replay Only and
Instrument Creation (MO) Messages - Replay Only (Excluding CME Eurodollar Options) channels (1 and
16) to download MO messages for the week, and use the product channels for mid-week instrument
adds.
More information on the CME Market Data Platform is available in the
CME Market Data Platform Developer's Guide
. Details on the CME market data messages can be found in the
CME Market Data Platform RLC Message Specifications
.
Reminder: ITC 2.1 Market Data
Change
Effective
Sunday, January 21, to improve market data bandwidth management, the ITC 2.1
market data messages for CME E-mini Russell 2000
® and CME E-mini S&P 500
® options will be moved from the CME Globex Options Top of Book channel (5) to the CME
Globex Spreads Top of Book channel (6).
Please note: this change only affects the
ITC 2.1 message channels. There is no change to the RLC channels.
More information on the CME Market Data Platform channels is available
online.
Reminder: Instrument Group Code
Changes
Effective
Sunday, January 28, 2007, the following Instrument Group Code changes will be
implemented in both the certification and production environments. With this change, all Instrument
Group Codes will conform to the standard two-character length.
CME Market Data Platform RLC Message Specifications
.
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