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Description

The ICE Brent Crude Weekly American-style Option contract is based on the underlying ICE Brent Crude Futures Contract (B) and will automatically exercise into the corresponding future. The Weekly Options are short-life, American-style options that match the terms of the monthly options on the IFEU futures contract.

The contract tenors available for trading will include all Business Days falling within the four consecutive weeks contract series. What this means is that in the four consecutive week period there will be a rolling contract tenor listing every single business day. Once a prompt tenor expires then an additional tenor will be added to the back of the four consecutive week contract series, assuming it is a business day.

Market Specifications

Trading Screen Product Name

Brent Crude Weekly

Trading Screen Hub Name

North Sea

Contract Symbol

WAB

Hedge Instrument

The delta hedge for the Brent Crude Weekly American-style Option is the ICE Brent Crude Future (B).

Contract Size

1,000 barrels

Unit of Trading

Any multiple of 1,000 barrels

Currency

US Dollars and cents

Trading Price Quotation

One cent ($0.01) per barrel

Settlement Price Quotation

One cent ($0.01) per barrel

Minimum Price Fluctuation

One cent ($0.01) per barrel

Last Trading Day

Trading shall cease at the end of the designated settlement period of the ICE Futures Brent Crude Futures Contract on each day an ICE Futures Brent Crude Weekly Options contract is made available.

Option Style

The option is an American-style option which can be exercised on any business day prior to and until expiration day.

Option Premium / Daily Margin

Due to futures-style margining, option premiums are not paid/received at the time of the transaction. Rather margins are paid/received every day according to the changing value of the option. The total value to be paid/received is only known when the position is closed (by an opposing sale/purchase, exercise or expiry). The buyer never pays more margin than the cost of the premium. All open contracts are marked-to-market daily.

Expiry

ICE Brent Crude Weekly American-style Options will be exercised into the corresponding ICE Brent Crude Futures contract. On expiry day, automatic exercise settings are pre-set to exercise contracts which are one minimum price fluctuation or more in-the-money with reference to the corresponding daily settlement price at the designated settlement time as determined by the Exchange.

Strike Price Intervals

This contract will support Custom Option Strikes of $0.01/bbl above and below the at-the-money Strike Price. Strike price boundaries are adjusted according to futures price movements.

The at-the-money strike price is the closest interval nearest to the previous business day's settlement price of the underlying contract.

Contract Series

Four consecutive weeks

If the scheduled cessation of trading day for an ICE Futures Brent Crude Weekly Options contract coincides with the scheduled cessation of trading of the monthly ICE Futures Brent Crude Options contract then that Weekly Option will be exercisable into the second month ICE Brent Crude Oil Futures contract.
If the scheduled cessation of trading day is not a Business Day then the relevant ICE Futures Brent Crude Weekly Options contract will not be made available for trading.

If the day on which trading in the relevant option is due to cease would be either: (i) the Business Day preceding Christmas Day, or (ii) the Business Day preceding New Year’s Day, then the Weekly Option will not be made available for trading.

Final Payment Date

Two Clearing House Business Days following the Last Trading Day

Business Days

ICE Business Days

MIC Code

IFEU

Clearing Venues

ICEU

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Trading Hours

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