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Jan 24, 2014

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RDX® USD index options: Change of trading hours

Effective 10 February 2014, Eurex Exchange will change the trading hours for index options on the RDX® USD index.

As of this date, Continuous Trading and the entry of OTC Block Trade transactions will start already 15 minutes earlier, at 09:00 CET. The reason for this is that London Stock Exchange will extend the trading hours for shares included in the RDX® USD index accordingly. The new trading hours are as follows:

Product

Product code

Pre-Trading period

Continuous Trading

Post-Trading Full period

OTC Block Trading

Last trading day

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trading until

Excercise until

RDX® USD index options

ORDX

07:30 - 08:50

08:50 - 16:30

16:30 - 20:30

09:00 - 19:00

16:30

21:00

Market Maker requirements will remain unchanged.

This circular contains the updated sections of the relevant Rules and Regulations for Eurex Deutschland and Eurex Zürich. Information on product clearing as well as the updated sections of the relevant Rules and Regulations of Eurex Clearing AG are contained in Eurex Clearing circular 010/14, which we are providing to our Trading Participants as attachment 2.

Market Status ⓘ

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The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.

Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message. 

We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.

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