Emissions products support trading of futures and options based on emissions and air quality. Three types of contracts are currently available:
- Greenhouse Gas contracts
- Nitrogen Oxide contracts
- Sulfur Dioxide contracts
This topic describes functionality specific to emissions products on CME Globex.
Daily European Union Allowance Futures
Daily European Union Allowance (EUA) Futures are a daily expiration futures instrument having product-specific functionality within CME Globex.
For the Daily EUA futures contract, the listing schedule includes two (2) daily contracts available for trading at any one time: the current trade date, and the following trade date (the contract date).
On the last trade date, trading halts at 11:00 a.m. Central Time (CT) and the Exchange for Related Position (EFRP) transaction session ends at 12:00 p.m. (CT).
During the week of October 31 through November 7, due to the end of British Summer Time (BST), trading halt occurs at 12:00 p.m. (CT) and the EFRP transaction session ends at 1:00 p.m. (CT).
The market data Security Definition message (tag 35-MsgType=d) supports this product as follows.
Product | Tag 6937-Asset | Tag 1151-SecurityGroup | Tag 207-SecurityExchange | Tag 872-InstAttribValue | Tag 200-MaturityMonthYear |
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European Union Allowance (EUA) Daily Futures | EUL | VE | GREE | 17=daily product eligibility | YYYYMMDD |
Tag 55-Symbol identifies daily futures instrument attributes as follows.
- EUL=product code
- Z=maturity month
- 0=maturity year (i.e. 2010)
- 10=maturity calendar date
EUA Daily vs. In Delivery Month Intercommodity Spread
The daily EUA instrument is spread against the delivery month EUA instrument to create a daily vs delivery month intercommodity spread. The spread is listed and expired according to the daily instrument.
Product | Tag 6937-Asset | Tag 1151-SecurityGroup | Tag 762-SecuritySubType |
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Daily European Union Allowance (EUL) vs In Delivery Month European Union Allowance (EAF) Intercommodity Spread | EUL | VE | IS |