Notice to Members
Notice No. 71
02/18/2005
Large Trader Reporting Requirements, Accountability Levels and Expiration and Current Delivery Month Limits for Seven New Natural Gas Futures
Commencing with the February 22, 2005, trade date, for the trading session which starts at 7:00 P.M. EST on February 21, 2005, the Exchange will begin offering trading on its NYMEX ClearPortsm system in seven new Natural Gas Swap contracts. The Daily Large Trader Report for contracts submitted on February 23, 2005, for close of business February 22, 2005, must include reportable positions for these contracts.

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:

Contracts
Product Symbol
ANR Louisiana Basis Futures Contract
ND
Kern River, Wyoming Basis Futures Contract
NV
Questar Basis Futures Contract
TA
Tennessee 500 Leg Basis Futures Contract
NM
Tennessee Zone 0 Basis Futures Contract
NQ
Texas Gas, Zone SL Basis Futures Contract
TB
Trunkline, LA Basis Futures Contract
NU


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 (Expiration and Current Delivery Month Position Limits or Position Accountability), for the above contracts are as follows:


Any One Month/All Months Net Futures or Futures Equivalent
Position Accountability Levels
= 10,000 contracts

Expiration and Current Delivery Month Position Limits


Contracts
 
ANR Louisiana Basis Futures Contract
1,000
Kern River, Wyoming Basis Futures Contract
1,000
Questar Basis Futures Contract
1,000
Tennessee 500 Leg Basis Futures Contract
1,500
Tennessee Zone 0 Basis Futures Contract
1,500
Texas Gas, Zone SL Basis Futures Contract
1,000
Trunkline, LA Basis Futures Contract
1,000
Should you have any questions or require any further information, please contact exchangeinfo@nymex.com