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Futures Trader Alert #2019 - 5
Initial Listing & Margin Notice for U.S. DV01 Treasury Futures Contract for Trade Date February 15, 2019
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Pending all regulatory reviews, effective with the Open Session on February 14, 2019, for Trade Date February 15, 2019, the Exchange will list the following Futures Contract:
Exchange rules provide that the underlying interest in DV01 Treasury Futures contracts is the dollar value (DV01) of a one basis point change in yield of the current 2-year, 5-year and 30-year On-The-Run U.S. Treasury notes with a face value of one million dollars having fixed semi-annual coupon payments, as determined by the Exchange. The Exchange has determined that the DV01 values for the 2-year, 5-year and 30-year Treasury Futures is $190, $470, and $1,800, respectively. Prices are quoted in Yield-Derived Price, which is 100 minus the yield on the corresponding U.S. Treasury note expressed as a percentage. (For example, a yield of 2.984 percent shall be expressed as a Yield-Derived Price of 97.016.) The minimum increment for the 2-year Treasury Futures is two tenths of a basis point (.002), which is equivalent to two-tenths of the contract month DV01. Accordingly, the minimum increment for the 2-year Treasury Futures is $38.00. Similarly, the 5-year and 30-year Treasury Futures are quoted in Yield-Derived Price, which is 100 minus the yield on the corresponding 5-year U.S. Treasury note and 30-year U.S. Treasury note expressed as a percentage. (For example, a yield of 2.985 percent shall be expressed as a Yield-Derived Price of 97.015.) The minimum increment is one tenth of one basis point (.001), which is equivalent to one-tenth of the contract month DV01. Accordingly, the minimum increment for the 5-year Treasury Future is $47.00; and the minimum increment for the 30-year Treasury Futures is $180. When the Exchange lists additional U.S. 2-YR DV01 Treasury Futures Contracts, U.S. 5-YR DV01 Treasury Futures Contracts, and U.S. 30-YR DV01 Treasury Futures Contracts each contract month will have a new and unique trading symbol. The dollar value (DV01), assigned by the Exchange at the time of listing will not change for the life of the contract month. There will never be a contract month listing (unique trading symbol) with variable DV01 dollar values. For additional information, please contact NFX Market Operations or call 215.496.5409. How will speculative customer initial margin be determined?Pursuant to CFTC regulations, The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) will set the speculative customer initial margin requirement on NFX futures and options on futures. CFTC regulations require OCC to set the customer initial margin requirement at an amount that is higher than OCC’s clearing member margin requirement. OCC has advised NFX that the customer initial margin requirement for NFX contracts will be set to a dollar amount that equals 110% of the greater of Value-at-Risk (VaR) level calculated using a 99% confidence interval for the daily price returns using a 2-year and 5-year look-back period (on a per contract basis). In addition, for products having an economically equivalent contract listed on another market center, OCC will not allow its rates to fall below that of the primary listing exchange. OCC has advised NFX that customer initial margin requirement are reset approximately every 90 calendar days and monitored daily, with rates being re-set should a one-day change in settlement price exceed the prevailing rate at the time. In addition, OCC has authority to update customer initial margin requirements at any time, if deemed warranted, and as dictated by market conditions.How will customer maintenance margin be determined?NFX has adopted OCC’s VaR calculation as described above as the customer maintenance margin requirement.How will hedge customer initial margin and futures participant initial margin be determined?NFX has adopted OCC’s VaR calculation as described above as the initial and maintenance margin requirement for hedge customers and Futures Participants.Where can I find the margin rates?NFX margin rates will be available on the OCC website at: www.theocc.com. |
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