DCE: Notice on Listing and Trading of Log Futures

DCE will also list Log options on November 19 (Tuesday), 2024
DCE: Notice on Listing and Trading of Log Options | by MARKET BRIDGE CONSULTING | Nov, 2024 | Medium

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has officially approved the registration of Log options on Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE). The relevant matters on listing and trading are hereby released:

I. Listing and Trading Time

Log options will be listed for trading on November 19 (Tuesday), 2024. On the listing day, the call auction will be from 8:55 to 9:00, and the opening time will be at 9:00. Log options are not available for night trading temporarily.

Log Options Contract of Dalian Commodity Exchange

II. Contracts Listed for Trading

Log options listed for trading are LG2507, LG2509, LG2511.

III. Listing Prices

The listing prices of Log options contracts are calculated based on the BAW American futures options pricing model. The interest rate in the model is the latest benchmark one-year deposit rate, and the volatility is based on factors such as the historical volatility of the physicals prices comprehensively. The listing prices will be released together with the settlement data through the Member Service System after the settlement on the trading day prior to the listing day, and will also be released on DCE’s website (www.dce.com.cn).

IV. Trading Orders

Limit order and stop limit order will be offered. The maximum quantity of orders placed each time of the options contract is the same as that of the underlying futures contract, 1000 lots.

V. Exercise and Fulfillment

During the trading hours of any trading day and from 15:00 to 15:30 on the expiration day, clients may submit application for exercise, hedging liquidation of the two-way options positions, hedging liquidation of the two-way futures positions following exercise or fulfillment. During the trading hours and from 15:00 to 15:30 on the expiration day, clients may submit application for cancelling automatic exercise of options.

VI. Position Limits

The position limit for Log options is 1500 lots. The position limits of Log options and Log futures are separate. With respect to the options contracts of a particular month held by the Non-Futures Company Member and the client, neither the sum of the buying open interest of all call options and the selling open interest of all put options, nor the sum of buying open interest of all put options and the selling open interest of all call options may exceed the position limit of the corresponding options contracts. The positions involving actual control relationship shall be calculated on a consolidated basis.

VII. Portfolio Margin

From the settlement on November 19, 2024, LG2507 options contracts will be the contracts applicable to portfolio positions.

VIII. Related Commissions

The trading commissions of Log options is 1 CNY/lot. The exercise (fulfillment) commissions of Log options are the same as the corresponding trading commissions. The hedging commissions of Log options is 0.5 CNY/lot.

The order fees shall be collected on Log options.The order fees shall be collected on daily basis. The standards are as follows:

Table: The order fees standards of Log options

The order fees are calculated on the basis of Log futures contracts.

Contract order fee = ∑(each message amount of contract by clients or Non-Futures Company Members on the then-current day × each charging rate)

Message amount = number of order placements + number of order cancellations

OTR= message amount / number of executed orders-1

As for the same client who has several trading codes with different Futures Company Members, or clients and Non-Futures Company Members involving actual control relationship, DCE will calculate their number of order placements, number of order cancellations and number of executed orders on a consolidated basis.

IX. Market Maker Mechanism and Quotation Inquiry

The market maker mechanism is implemented in the trading of Log options. Non-Futures Company Members or clients may submit a quotation inquiry to the market makers on non-continuous-quotation contracts. The continuous-quotation contracts will be released on DCE’s website. The quotation inquiry shall specify the contract symbol of the options. The interval between two quotation inquiries on the same options contract should not be less than 60 seconds. The maximum number of quotation inquiries on each options product under the same trading code is 200 per day.