VOLUME 21 – BULLETIN #249
TO:	ALL CLEARING MEMBERS
FROM:	BUSINESS SYSTEMS GROUP
DATE:	December 4, 2001
SUBJECT:	CBOT Mini-Sized Eurodollar Contract Trading Exclusively on the a/c/e Platform

Effective Thursday, December 6, 2001 at 12:00 noon, the following contract will no longer be pit traded on the MidAm floor. Beginning on Thursday December 6, 2001 with the start of a/c/e trading for business dated Friday, December 7, 2001, the following contract will be traded exclusively on the a/c/e platform as CBOT mini-sized contract:

Contract size of the Eurodollar futures (YE) is $500,000. The minimum tick value is ½ of one basis point or $6.25.

Firms must report open interest and large trader for the business day of December 6, 2001 using MidAm Exchange/Commodity code. There will be a special trade checking session at 2:00 p.m. to help firms clean up any unmatched trades prior to the conversion process. Cleared positions in the MidAm product will be converted to the new CBOT a/c/e product effective with Friday’s business. Any trades that remain unmatched after Thursday, December 6, 2001 will need to be deleted and resubmitted under the new a/c/e commodity code.

Should you have any questions, please call or e-mail one of the following Business Systems Analysts: