The additional contract versions service support off-book trading of tailor-made futures and options contracts. This allows traders to customize their trades to meet their individual needs.
In this way, Eurex Trading Participants benefit from the flexibility of off-book trading and at the same time take advantage of the efficiency and safety of standardized exchange, clearing and settlement processes.
Eurex products across various asset classes (Equity & Equity Index derivatives, ETF & ETC derivatives, Options on Fixed Income Futures and Commodity derivatives) are offered via the additional contract versions services. The Minimum Trading Size for additional contract versions is identical to the Minimum Block Trade Size of the respective product.
Market participants can design additional contract versions for Futures trades by selecting:
Market participants can design additional contract versions for Options by selecting (in addition to the selectable features for additional contract versions for Futures):
Clearing features
Eurex Clearing offers a series of back office features for additional contract versions to support back office processing.
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.
An instant update of the Market Status requires an enabled up-to date Java™ version within the browser.