Weekly Agricultural Options

Greater flexibility and precision to customize your risk coverage, with more savings and more strategies.

How They Are Designed

Provides an expiring option every week
Based on front month futures contract
Expires on every Friday that is not a standard expiration date for quarterly / serial options

How You Can Benefit

Hedge around high-impact events such as USDA and WASDE reports
Strengthen positions for short-term market fluctuations
Pay less in premiums due to less time covered
Use with your existing futures hedges to capture opportunity with defined risk

Weekly Agricultural Options Explained

Product Codes

Product	CME Globex	Open Outcry	Bloomberg	CQG	Propht X
Corn	ZC1-5	PY1-5	1-5XA Comdty	ZCE1-5	@C1-5
Soybean	ZS1-5	CZ1-5	1-5SA Comdty	ZSE1-5	@S1-5
SRW Wheat	ZW1-5	WZ1-5	1-5WA Comdty	ZWA1-5	@W1-5
HRW Wheat	OE1-5	OK1-5		KWE1-5
Soybean Meal	ZM1-5	MZ1-5	1-5DA	ZME1-5
Soybean Oil	ZO1-5	WZ1-5	1-5AA	ZLE1-5

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