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Bulletin Heading VOLUME 27 – BULLETIN #036

TO:

ALL CLEARING PARTICIPANTS

FROM:

CLIENT SERVICES AND SUPPORT

DATE:

August 21, 2007

SUBJECT:

Chicago Climate Exchange Certified Reduction Futures

Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), an all-electronic exchange, will trade the following futures contract that will be cleared by CCorp.

Exchange Code:

03

Commodity Code:

WR

Contract Size:

1000 Certified Emission Reductions (“CER’”) representing 1000metric tons of carbon dioxide (“CO2”). CER’s are transferable instruments issued by the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism as operated under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Quotation:

U.S. Dollars / metric ton CO2

Minimum Tick Increment:

$0.01 per CER = $10.00 per contract.

Delivery Months:

Standard cycle contract listings:

• Six consecutive quarterly contracts on a March, June, September, December cycle.

• Front two serial calendar months.

• Annual December contracts through 2012.

Deliverable Instruments:

Cash Settled

First Trading Day:

The first trading day of a standard cycle contract is the first business day following an expiration day of standard cycle contract.

Last Trading Day:

A contract expires on the last Monday of the contract month. When the last Monday falls on a non-business day, the last trading day shall be the prior Monday of the expiration month. Trading shall cease for the expiring contract at 9:30 a.m. Central Time on the Last Trading Day.

Trading Hours (CT):

7:00 a.m. – 3:00p.m. Central Time

Final Settlement Price:

CCFE will post final settlement price at 11:00 a.m. Central Time, on last trading day. CCorp will expire all positions on last trading day using this final settlement price.

Reportable Position Limits:

25 contracts.

Nearby Expiration Month Speculative Position Limits:

1,000 contracts.

Trade Management:

MQM add duplication messages will be sent to the Clearing Participants back office systems in the TREX record format. Clearing Participants may submit MQM change records to CCorp to change non-critical trade information, or mark a trade as a give-up. Clearing Participants can also mark trades as give ups via the CCorp Trade Management system. Current GAPI processing between CCorp and the Clearing Participant will be used.

Position Management:

Clearing Participants should submit open interest to CCorp, either by submitting an Open interest FTP file or using the web based Position Management System. Position Management also allows participants users to perform intra-day position adjustments and intra firm transfers. Below are the process and availability.

Process

Application

Available

DUE

Final Open Interest File Due

FTP Put

Anytime during current business day

8;00 p.m.

Final Open Interest

Position Management

7:15 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

Online verification of final open interest

Position Management

7;15 p.m.

8;00 p.m.

Adjustments to final open interest

Position Management

After end of day final processing

10;00 a.m. next business day.

Position Adjustments

Position Management

10;15 a.m.

7;00 p.m.

Intra-firm position adjustments

Position management

After end of day final processing

7;00 p.m.

Validation of Final Open Interest:

Participants can only submit one final position record by origin for each valid contract that it is currently trading in and/or holding positions in. CCorp will perform a maximum long and minimum long calculation for each final position reported. The calculation will be performed using the participant’s incoming prior day position, adjustments, current day’s buys, current day’s sells, transfers, exercises (if applicable), and deliveries (if applicable). If a participant’s submitted final position falls outside these calculated parameters, the final reported position will be in error. Participants have the opportunity to review and update errors prior to final processing, please refer to table above. If a firm fails to update an error, CCorp will adjust the final long position as close as possible to the firm’s reported position using the current day’s activity. Furthermore, CCorp will assume any activity in a contract that a participant does not report a final position in will be adjusted as closing positions. Additionally, futures created form option assignments will be considered closing positions.

Should you have any questions, please call or e-mail one of the following Client Services and Support Representatives:

Richard Crilly

786-3842

richard.crilly@clearingcorp.com

Marc MacQuarrie

786-5732

marc.macquarrie@clearingcorp.com

John Compall

 

john.compall@clearingcorp.com

     

Client Services and Support Group

786-5718

 
     

Client Services and Support E-Mail Address

css@clearingcorp.com

Clearing Corporation Web Site

http://www.clearingcorp.com