Notice to Members

Notice No. 29
01/13/2006

New Margin Rates and Tiers for NYMEX miNY Heating Oil and miNY Unleaded Gasoline Futures

EFFECTIVE DATE: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 (close of business)

FUTURES CONTRACTS: NYMEX miNYTM Heating Oil Futures (QH), and NYMEX miNY™ Unleaded Gasoline Futures (QU)

CONTRACT MONTHS: All Months

NYMEX Division Outright (Scan) New miNY Heating Oil (QH) Futures Contracts Spread Tiers

Tiers	*New*
1	1st Nearby
2	Greater than 1st Nearby

NYMEX Division Outright (Scan) New miNY Uleaded Gasoline (QU) Futures Contracts Spread Tiers

Tiers	*New*
1	All Months

NYMEX Division Outright (Scan) Margins for New miNY Heating Oil (QH) and miNY Unleaded Gasoline (QU) Futures Contracts

Tiers	Clearing Member / Maintenance Margin	Member Customer Initial Margin	Non-Member Customer Initial Margin
	*New*	*New*	*New*
QH (Tier 1 - 1st Nearby)	$2,500	$2,750	$3,375
QH (Tier - 2nd and Greater)	$2,250	$2,475	$3,038
QU (All Months)	$2,000	$2,200	$2,700

NYMEX Division Intra-Commodity Spread Margins on New miNY Heating Oil (QH) and miNY Unleaded Gasoline (QU) Futures Contracts

Tiers	Clearing Member / Maintenance Margin	Member Customer Initial Margin	Non-Member Customer Initial Margin
	*New*	*New*	*New*
QH	$125	$138	$169
QU	$250	$275	$338

Should you have any questions or require any further information, please contact exchangeinfo@nymex.com