Market Data Advisory Notices
To Market Data Distributors
From Market Data Operations
Subject NYMEX Options To Be Listed For Trading on CME Globex - Effective Sunday, June 24, 2007
Notice Date 2007-05-14
Notice Number Q2007-128
Effective Date 2007-05-14

Effective Sunday, June 24, 2007 (trade date Monday, June 25 th), the following options on futures will be listed for trading on CME Globex:

 

·        NYMEX Crude Oil

·        NYMEX Natural Gas

·        COMEX Gold

·        COMEX Silver

 

For this implementation, the strike price field in RLC market data messages will be expanded from the current 4 bytes to a variable length 5 byte field.

   

Ticker Codes & MDP Channel Information

 

Product

Ticker Code

MDP Channel

NYMEX Crude Oil Options

LO

35

NYMEX Natural Gas Options

ON

36

COMEX Gold Options

OG

37

COMEX Silver Options

SO

37

 

Trading Hours

Trading hours are 5:00 p.m. Sunday through 4:15 p.m. Friday, Central Time (CT), with a 45-minute pause between 4:15 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. CT for system maintenance and date roll.

 

Certification Testing

These NYMEX options will be available for customer testing in the New Release Certification environment on Monday, May 21, 2007.

Please contact MarketDataOps@cme.com and the Market Data Hotline 312.634.8395 if you have any questions.

 

Thank you.