CME Group Closes Most Open Outcry Futures Trading in Chicago and New York July 6 — 2015 June 30

The CME Group has closed all pit futures trading as of July 6, 2015 with the exception of the S&P 500 Index futures.  Pit trading of options on futures contracts will remain open.

CSI will continue to report values for the data sets that represent pit-only trading.  There will be only settlement pricing, as well as volumes and open interest.

The volumes will consist of Privately Negotiated Transactions (Exchange Futures for Physicals, Exchange Futures for Risks, Exchange Futures for Swaps), plus open outcry volume related to options trading (futures/options combo orders a.k.a. covered spreads, which are a unique delta-neutral instrument created by combining an outright option or options spread with one or more underlying outright futures instruments. The futures leg of such orders is still allowed to be executed via open outcry provided the whole order is executed simultaneously at the spread’s differential price.  These orders are executed in the open outcry options pits, which are still open.)

The following table lists the various markets affected, with CSI numbers for the electronic trading (ETH), pit trading (RTH), and combined market data:

*CSI numbers >100,000 are denoted in UA as >1,000.  e.g. CSI# 100406 is UA# 1406