NYMEX Options Launch on CME Globex
Effective
Sunday, June 24, 2007 (for trade date Monday, June 25), options on NYMEX Crude Oil
and Natural Gas futures and COMEX Gold and Silver futures will launch on CME Globex.
For NYMEX options, CME is introducing variable length strike prices of up to 5 bytes in the
Complete Instrument Code field in RLC market data messages and in SecurityDesc (FIX tag 107) in CME
iLink messages. Currently, in these fields CME supports fixed strike prices within product groups
of up to 4 bytes. More information on RLC market data is available in the
CME Market Data
Platform SDK RLC Message Specifications volume. More information on CME iLink messaging is
available in the
CME iLink
SDK Message Specifications volume.
| Product |
Instrument
Group Code |
Product
Code |
MDP
Channel |
| Crude
Oil |
LO |
LO |
35 |
| Natural
Gas |
ON |
ON |
36 |
| Gold |
OG |
OG |
37 |
| Silver |
SO |
SO |
37 |
These NYMEX options will be available for customer testing in the New Release Certification
environment Monday, May 21.
More information about this NYMEX options launch is available at
www.nymex.com.
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