Euro Futures and Options Trading

Specifications
Trading Specs
Euro currency Futures: 125,000 euro physically delivered
Eurocurrency Options: One Euro futures contract

Trading Hours
Futures: Floor/7:20a.m.-2:00p.m. LTD (9:16a.m.)
Options: Floor/7:20a.m.-2:00a.m. LTD (2:00p.m.)

Trading Months
Futures: Six months in the March Quarterly cycle, Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec.
Options: Four months in the March cycle, Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec and two months not in the March cycle (serial months), plus 4 weekly expirations.

Point Description
Futures: 1 point = $.0001 per Euro = $12.50 per contract
Options: 1 point = $.0001 per Euro = $12.50 per contract

Minimum Price Fluctuation
Futures: Regular/0.0001 = $12.50, Calendar Spread/0.00005 = $6.25, All or none/0.00005 = $6.25
Options: Regular/0.0001 = $12.50, Cab 0.00005 = $6.25, Special "Half Tick" 0.00005 = $6.25 for premium < 0.0005, spreads w/net premium < 0.0005, non-generic combo trades < 0.0010.

commodity Options Strike Prices
Options: $.01 per Euro, e.g. $1.0500, $1.0600, etc. For the first seven expirations, additional strike prices will be listed at $.005 intervals, e.g., $1.0550, $1.0650. Etc.

Product Code
Futures: Clearing=EC, Ticker=EC,
Options: Clearing Calls/Puts=EC

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The Euro futures contract listed at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is based on the European currency traded by the world's largest governments, banks, and currency traders.

The offers trading markets for Euro futures and options in open-outcry trading pits on its exchange floor, as well as on its Globex electronic futures trading platform. The price of the Euro futures contract is quoted in terms of the number of U.S. Dollars per one Euro.

Euro FX futures and commodity options offer Commodity Brokers, financial institutions, investment managers, corporations, and private investors ways to manage the risks associated with currency rate fluctuation. Equally importantly, Euro futures and options allow traders to speculate on, and take advantage of profit opportunities stemming from, changes in currency rates. .

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