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- E-Mail Statements
E-Mail Statements While improving our email communications program which normally delivers a Daily Statement only to those customers who both requested email delivery AND had activity in their account, some of our customers with no account activity may have inadvertently received a copy last night consisting of a blank page, whereas they should not have. We do apologize for any confusion. If your account did have activity, then you should have received this statement fine and as normal. Perhaps you would like to receive instead of or in addition to the Daily Statement your Equities Statement? Thanks to our recent improvements, we are now pleased to offer daily email delivery of your Equities Statement. Whereas the Daily Statement shows account activity and will only be sent if there were something to report, the Equities Statement is generated and sent every day for any account with a balance. You can view both the Equity Statement and the Daily Statements under the Account Access link on our Member's site at: www.iowagrain.com If you do not have client web access and wish to, or to update your email delivery options, please contact us at support@IowaGrain.com Thank you for your time and have a great day! The Technical Support Team at Iowa Grain - Introducing CME Group
This link introduces the new CME Group. - NYMEX Options
The New York Mercantile Exchange offers options trading for crude oil (CL), natural gas (NG), gold (GC), and silver (SI) on the CME Globex electronic trading platform . To ensure orderly exercise procedures, no expiring options will be accepted for trading after the close of open outcry trading on the day of expiration. The options will be available for trading on CME Globex from 5:00 PM Sundays through 4:15 PM Fridays CT, with a 45-minute break between 4:15 PM and 5:00 PM. For crude oil options, expiration months include the balance of the current year and next consecutive year, with additional June/December months through 2015. Natural gas options contracts will be available for 24 consecutive months. Gold options will be listed for the nearest six of the following months: February, April, June, August, October, and December. Contracts for January, March, May, July, September, and November will be listed for trading for a period of two months. A 60-month options contract is added from the current calendar month on a June/December cycle. Silver options will be offered for the nearest five contract months of March, May, July, September, and December. Contracts for January, February, April, June, August, October, and November will be listed for trading for a period of two months. A 60-month options contract is added from the current calendar month on a July /December cycle. - NYBOT Dollar Index
The New Board of Trade (NYBOT) recently announced that they will be eliminating the Dollar Index evening floor session that has been held each business day from 6pm to 9pm (CDT). The last session will be held on Thursday, June 28th for trade date the 29th. With the elimination of the New York evening floor session, the floor trading day for all NYBOT currency futures and options will begin with the Dublin floor session at 1:00 am (CDT). Keep in mind that the electronic (ICE) trading day for the US Dollar Index futures (VDX) will continue to run from 7pm through 3:15pm on each business day.GTC orders are not acceptable on the ICE platform. All GTC orders for the Dollar Index must still be entered, modified, or cancelled during the New York open-outcry day session.*As a side note -the electronic soft volume on ICE-NYBOT continues to grow versus the pit traded markets on the NYBOT trading floor. During the month of May the ICE exchange reported that electronic trading represented 71% of the soft commodity futures volume - Agricultural Futures Morning Pre-Open
In order to increase the efficiency of firms' in preparing for the Agricultural futures re-opening at 9:30 a.m., beginning Monday, June 25, 2007, e-cbot will begin the morning Pre-Open session at 6:30 a.m. The morning Pre-Open session currently begins at 8:30 a.m.The following products will be available for Pre-Open at 6:30 a.m. Corn Futures Ethanol Futures South American Soybean Futures Soybean Futures Soybean Oil Futures Soybean Meal Futures Oat Futures Rough Rice Futures Wheat Futures KCBT Hard Red Winter Wheat Futures MGEX Hard Red Spring Wheat Futures WCE Western Barley Futures and Options WCE Canola Futures and Options WCE Feed Wheat Futures and Options Agricultural Futures Trading States from 5:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. Chicago time as of Monday, June 25The following table lists the distinct trading state time periods (Chicago time) for Agricultural futures beginning Monday, June 25. Pre-Open 5:30 p.m. Open 6:30 p.m. (Opening Rotation begins) Restricted Open 6:00 a.m. 2nd Pre-Open 6:30 a.m. Re-Open 9:30 a.m. Close 1:15 p.m. 3rd Pre-Open 2:30 p.m. Close Final 3:55 p.m. During the Restricted Open period the following functions are permitted: All Day, Good-til-Canceled (GTC) and Good-til-Date (GTD) orders remain in book Orders can be pulled Order volume can be revised down Strategies can be created ITM Logon and logoff is permitted (logoff will cancel all 'Day' orders) Nominate Replacement Trader(s) Order Transfer Available During the Restricted Open period the following functions are NOT permitted: Revision of price Submission of orders Request for Quotes Revision of GTC date - Intercontinental Exchange(ICE)
Intercontinental Exchange(ICE) announced that electronic trading in U.S. Dollar Index (VDX) listed at NYBOT will begin on Friday, June 15, 2007. Trading hours are from 7:00 p.m. CT through 3:15 p.m. CT each trading day. ICE will take Limit and Market orders but GTCs and Stops are not acceptable. These futures contracts, as well as options on these futures, currently trade in the NYBOT floor-based markets.ICE successfully introduced side-by-side trading for NYBOT’s soft commodity contracts on February 2, 2007. Contracts offered include futures based on cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar. Today, approximately 75% of NYBOT’s commodity futures contracts are traded electronically on the ICE platform. We ask that you consider placing your limit and market orders using the ICE symbols. They are fungible with the open outcry contracts. - Revised Expiration Schedule/Dec 2007
As previously announced*, the Board of Directors has approved adjustments to the option expiration schedules for December 2007 Agricultural and Financial Options as indicated below. These changes are designed to minimize holiday related scheduling issues in connection with the 2007 Thanksgiving holiday. -Change the last trading day/expiration for December 2007 agricultural and financial options from Friday, November 23 to Tuesday, November 20, 2007. The referenced agricultural options include December 2007 Corn, Soybean, Soybean Oil, Soybean Meal, Oat, Rice and Wheat contracts. The referenced financial options include December 2007 U.S. Treasury Bond and 10-Year, 5-Year and 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note contracts. *Previous announcements dated December 14, 2004; February 15, 2006; January 24,February 28, March 27 and May 29, 2007 - 10-Year Treasury Note options
Effective Monday, June 25, 2007, the CBOT will list half-point strike prices for the 10-Year Treasury Note options - CME New Product Advisory
The attached advisory contains new product information for Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft Pulp. For the full text of this advisory . . .http://www.cme.com/clearing/clr/npadv/files/NPadv07-13.pdf - CBOT
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced plans to launch electronically-traded credit default swap Index futures contracts. The new CBOT CDR Liquid 50TM North American Investment Grade Index futures contracts are scheduled to begin trading on June 25, 2007. - NYBOT
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), a wholly owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE:ICE), announced a new schedule for the Exchange and