Effective Sunday, November 22, 2009 CME Group will implement a number of internal improvements to the CME and CBOT Equity futures markets that are expected to reduce iLink order entry round- trip times for CBOT Equity futures up to 50% and for CME Equity futures up to 20%
There will be no changes to functionality or messaging format with these performance improvements.
To prepare for this implementation, on Friday, November 20, , all Good till Cancel (GTC) and Good till Date (GTD) orders in the CBOT Equity futures markets will be cancelled. Customer may re-enter orders during the normal market pre-open on Sunday, November 22.
Please contact Market Data Operations (MDO) at mdo@cmegroup.com, if you have any questions concerning this notice.