Contract standards and their underlying as well as the respective contract values and price gradations, vendor codes, block trade sizes, etc can be found here.

Settlement

Cash settlement, payable on the first exchange day following the final settlement day.


Contract months

Maturity months (up to 36 months): The twelve nearest quarterly months of the March, June, September and December cycle.

Last trading day and final settlement day

Last trading day is the third Friday of each maturity month if this is an exchange day at Eurex; otherwise the exchange day immediately preceding that day.

Final settlement day of MSCI Index Futures is the exchange day immediately following the last trading day.

Close of trading in the maturing futures on the last trading day is at 22:00 CET.


Daily settlement price
The daily settlement prices for the current maturity month are derived from the volume-weighted average of the prices of all transactions during the minute before 17:30 CET, provided that more than five trades transacted within this period.

For the remaining maturity months, the daily settlement price for a contract is determined based on the average bid/ask spread of the combination order book.


Final settlement price

The final settlement price is established by Eurex on the final settlement day of the contract and is determined by the closing value of the respective Price, Net or Gross Total Return Index on the last trading day.

Further details are available in the clearing conditions and the contract specifications.

Admitted to the Eurex Block Trade Service with a Minimum Block Trade Size of 50 contracts.

0.50 percent based on the bid price.

In Fast Market, the Maximum Spread is increased by 100 percent.

5 contracts on the bid and ask side.

The minimum quote duration is 70 percent of the trading hours between 09:00 and 17:30 CET
(on a monthly average). The front month has to be quoted; five exchange days preceding the last trading day, Market Makers may choose to quote either the front month or the second contract month.

In Fast Market, the minimum quote size is reduced by 50 percent.

A deviation from the reference price shall be deemed significant if the price of the mistrade transaction deviates from the reference price by more than the higher value between the mistrade range floor or 20 percent of the PCP for the corresponding futures contract, unless another regulation has been made for an individual product.

The floor value for the mistrade range will be determined on a product level as the higher value between 10 percent of the corresponding outright futures mistrade range calculated using the price change percentile methodology and an absolute value of four ticks.