Weekly Gold Options Expiry Process

It is important to understand how CME Group expires options contracts you trade. Expiration processes differ from product to product.

A Gold weekly option exercises to the closest February, April, June, August, October or December Gold futures contract. If the expiration day is after the expiry of the associated monthly option for those months, it will exercise into in the second closest February, April, June, August, October or December Gold futures contract.

Expiration Example

For example, May weeks 1, 2 and 3 expire into June futures. But the monthly option expires June 24. This means week 4 May options expire after the associated reference month options and week 4 May options will move to the next active futures contract month, August.

Option Expiration Date	Option Product	Option Symbol	Underlying Symbol	Underlying Expiration Date
5/4/2018	Gold Weekly Options Wk 1	OG1K8	GCM8	6/27/2018
5/11/2018	Gold Weekly Options Wk 2	OG2K8	GCM8	6/27/2018
5/18/2018	Gold Weekly Options Wk 3	OG3K8	GCM8	6/27/2018
5/24/2018	Gold Options	OGM8	GCM8	6/27/2018
5/25/2018	Gold Weekly Options Wk 4	OG4K8	GCQ8	8/29/2018

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