Notice to Members
Notice No. 392
07/28/2008
Settlement Data (Text Format) Files on NYMEX.com
Please be advised that the settlement text files on nymex.com (found here: http://www.nymex.com/md_ewd.aspx) have been reformatted as of Friday’s (7/25) business date and will continued to be created in this format going forward. Various users may have scripts which automatically pull down these files and/or parse them for processing. If this happens to be the case for your firm, please refer to the specification below and make the necessary changes:

Settlement Data (Text Format)

Field
Position
Notes
Contract- Product Code
5-Jan
5-byte field; alphanum; Left Justified
Unused space
6
 
Contract- Month
8-Jul
2-byte field; numerical (MM)
Unused space
9
 
Contract- Year
11-Oct
2-byte field; numerical (YY)
Unused space
12
 
Contract- Day/Week
13-14
2-byte field; numerical (DD or WW)
Unused space
15
 
Contract- Put/Call
16
1-byte field; alpha (P/C)
Unused space
17
 
Contract- Strike
18-24
7-byte field; Decimal Formatted, Right Justified
Unused space
25-26
 
Today’s Settle
27-34
8-byte field; Decimal Formatted, Right Justified
Unused space
35-36
 
Previous Settle
37-44
8-byte field; Decimal Formatted, Right Justified
Unused space
45-48
 
Estimated Volume
49-55
7-byte field; Right Justified
Unused space
56-57
 
Daily High
58-65
8-byte field; Decimal Formatted, Right Justified
Unused space
66-67
 
Daily Low
68-75
8-byte field; Decimal Formatted, Right Justified
Unused space
76-80
Trailing space reserved for futures use.  Completes the 80-byte fixed length records.
Should you have any questions or require any further information, please contact exchangeinfo@nymex.com