Notice to Members
Notice No. 388
07/20/2006
Two New Metal Futures Contracts - Large Trader Reporting Requirements, Expiration Position Limits, and All Month/Any One Month Position Accountability
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. will launch two new Metal Futures Contracts commencing Monday, August 7, 2006: NYMEX miNY™ Platinum Futures Contract, and NYMEX miNY™ Palladium Futures Contract.

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:

Appendix (A), Chapter 9
Contract Name
Rule Chapter
Commodity
Code
All/ Any One Month
Accountability Level
Expiration Month Limit
Reporting Level
Aggregate
Into (1)
Aggregate
Into (2)
 
 
 
Rule 9.26
Rule 9.27
Rule 9.34
 
 
               
Metals              
NYMEX miNY™ Platinum  Futures Contract
405
PQ
1,500
200
50
PL
NYMEX miNY™ Palladium  Futures Contract
406
LQ
1,000
650
25
PA
Should you have any questions or require any further information, please contact exchangeinfo@nymex.com