Weekly Options on U.S. Treasury Futures
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Weekly U.S. Treasury options give you more flexibility to manage existing positions and greater precision to trade high impact economic events. Building on the success of Friday Weeklies, Wednesday Weekly options allow you to further refine your trading strategies, particularly around FOMC meetings.
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Wednesday Weeklies
- Growing liquidity with 38K contracts traded daily in 2022 YTD, +74% vs. 2021
- Wednesday expirations coincide with FOMC meetings
- Expire on Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. Central Time
- No contrary instructions will be allowed at expiration
- Two Wednesday expirations listed at any time
- Exercise into the next quarterly futures expiry
- Same strike price intervals and minimum tick sizes as Friday Weeklies
Friday Weeklies
- Deep liquidity with over 200K contracts traded daily in 2022 YTD, +10% vs. 2021
- Expire every Friday that is not already a quarterly or serial Treasury option expiration
- New weekly option listed the business day following an expiration
- Exercise into the next quarterly futures expiry
- Contrary instructions are allowed at expiration
Weekly options provide a deep pool of liquidity for market participants to express views on market moving events and economic reports – from FOMC Statements to monthly employment reports – nearly around-the-clock.
FOMC data includes volume from the following 2022 dates: 1/26, 3/16, 5/4, 6/15, 7/27, 9/21, 11/2, 12/14
CPI data includes volume from the following 2022 dates: 1/12, 2/10, 3/10, 4/12, 5/11, 6/10, 7/13, 8/10, 9/13, 10/13, 11/10, 12/13
Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) data includes volume from the following 2022 dates: 1/7, 2/4, 3/4, 4/1, 5/6, 6/3, 7/8, 8/5, 9/2, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2
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