| Notice to Members | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notice No. 171 04/20/2005 |
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| Sixteen New Natural Gas Futures Contracts; Large Trader Reporting Requirements; Expiration Position Limits; All Month/Any One Month Position Accountability Levels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. will launch 16 new natural gas futures contracts starting on Monday, April 25, 2005.
For these products, the quantity fixed for filing reports pursuant to NYMEX Rule 9.33 (Position Reporting) is 25 contracts. If a person controls or holds a position equal to, or greater than, 25 long or short in any one month in any of these contracts, then all the contracts, whether above the reportable level or not, shall be deemed reportable positions. For the Clearing Members that file reports pursuant to NYMEX Rule 9.33 in a machine-readable format, the Exchange commodity codes for these additional products are as follows:
Additionally, the accountability levels, pursuant to NYMEX Rule 9.26 (All Month/Any One Month Position Accountability), and expiration position limits, pursuant to NYMEX Rule 9.27, for the above contracts are as follows:
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| Should you have any questions or require any further information, please contact exchangeinfo@nymex.com |