May 2006 Filings by Designated Contract Markets (DCMs)

Date of Letter	Date Filed	DCM	Description
05/31/2006	05/31/2006	HEDGESTREET	Amendments to Chapter 12, Section (f) regarding discretionary rule as it relates to the payout criteria for various Hedgelet contracts.
05/31/2006	05/31/2006	HEDGESTREET	Amendments to the Payout Criteria for Gold, Natural Gas, Silver and Copper Binary Hedgelet Contracts.
05/31/2006	05/31/2006	CBOT	Amendments to reflect additional order types which may be placed through the e-cbot electronic trading system.
05/31/2006	05/31/2006	CBOT	Update hours of trading provisions for agricultural contracts
05/30/2006	05/31/2006	EUREXUS	Changes in the last trading day of Eurex’s Five-Year and Three-Year Treasury Notes Futures Contracts
05/26/2006	05/26/2006	NYMEX	Notification of an Amendment to NYMEX Rule 9.27, Expiration and Current Delivery Month Position Limits or Position Accountability.
05/26/2006	05/26/2006	CME	Amendments to CME Rule 588.C
05/26/2006	05/26/2006	CME	Termination of the Serial Month Live Cattle Permit Program and Delisting of the Serial Live Cattle Futures Months
05/26/2006	05/26/2006	CBOT	Clarify the language governing final settlement of the Soybean Board Crush Spread
05/25/2006	05/26/2006	CFE	CFE Rules 1202(d) and 1202(n) The Amendment changes the position limit and reportable position in CBOE Volatility Index futures.
05/25/2006	05/25/2006	CBOT	Early listing of September and December 2007 Wheat options
05/25/2006	05/25/2006	CBOT	Establish Electronic Market Maker program for Denatured Fuel Ethanol Futures
05/24/2006	05/25/2006	CBOT	Amend Bylaw to simplify the procedures for processing of corporate checks
05/23/2006	05/23/2006	NYMEX	Listing 12 consecutive contract months in the RBOB Gasoline Financial futures contract and 18 months in the Heating Oil Financial futures contract on CME Globex on June 12, 2006.
05/22/2006	05/22/2006	CBOT	Early listing of September 2008 Corn options
05/19/2006	05/19/2006	NYMEX	Rule Amendments to the NYMEX miNY Gasoline Futures Contract and Change in Electronic Trading Venue for the Four NYMEX miNY Futures Contracts for ClearPort to CME Globex
05/19/2006	05/19/2006	CBOT	Early listing of May 2008 Corn options.
05/18/2006	05/19/2006	NYMEX	Notification of Copper Spot Month Position Limit Reduction
05/17/2006	05/17/2006	CBOT	Early listing of July 2008 Wheat options
05/16/2006	05/16/2006	HEDGESTREET	Rules Numbers 12.44, 12.45, 12.46, 12.47, 12.48 and 12.49 HedgeStreet will not list any new NAR Variable Payout Contracts for Trading as of the close of business Monday May 15, 2006.
05/16/2006	05/16/2006	HEDGESTREET	HedgeStreet hereby submits to the Commission notification of a change in the operations location for the HedgeStreet Market Maker Subsidiary and announces an addition to the Subsidiary's team in order to assist in the management of its internal trading system.
05/16/2006	05/17/2006	CBOT	Rules Numbers 431.07, 431.08 Establish customer margin provisions and adopt new Market Maker Policy and Procedures for CBOT Security Futures
05/15/2006	05/15/2006	HEDGESTREET	HedgeStreet Rules 12.71(f), 12.72(f), 12.73(f), 12.74(f), 12.75(f), and 12.76(f) Amendments to the Payout Criteria for all existing NAR Binary Hedgelet Contracts.
05/11/2006	05/11/2006	CBOT	Revised trading hours for Denatured Fuel Ethanol futures
05/11/2006	05/11/2006	CBOT	Revised trading hours for South American Soybean futures
05/11/2006	05/11/2006	CBOT	Rule Numbers – Remove restrictions with respect to listing of agricultural contracts on e-cbot during daytime hours
05/10/2006	05/10/2006	NYMEX	Notification of an Increase in the Maximum Order Limit Size for NYMEX miNY Futures Contracts.
05/09/2006	05/10/2006	CME	Rule Numbers - Chapter 351A and 358A Additional options listings on the S&P and the E-Mini S&P 500 futures contracts.
05/05/2006	05/05/2006	NYMEX	Delisting Licensed Copper Warehouse
05/05/2006	05/05/2006	CME	Rule Numbers – Rule 41504, PERFORMANCE BONDS CME is adopting technical amendments to clarify the administration of performance bonds held to secure position in GSCI ER futures on the part of 100% margin participants.
05/04/2006	05/04/2006	CME	Rule Numbers – Amendments to new CME Rules 26903 and 269A0A Amendments to the emergency rules for proposed CME Rulebook Chapter 269 and 269A, respectively, for CME Israeli Shekel Futures and CME Options on Israeli Shekel Futures Contracts. These amendments are consistent with the recent changes to the CME Rulebook Chapter 7 emergency rules and the Exchange’s individual product chapter emergency rules.
05/04/2006	05/04/2006	CBOT	Establish Electronic Market Maker Program for 5-Yr. and 10-Yr. Interest Rate Swap Futures
05/04/2006	05/08/2006	NYMEX	Rule Numbers – NYMEX Rules 9.26, 9.27 and 9.34 Effective on May 8, 2006, these amendments include the addition of position limits, accountability levels, and reporting levels for 16 new Natural Gas Basis Swap Contracts. In addition, the Exchange’s position limits, accountability levels, reportable levels, and where applicable, the aggregation of contracts for position limit purposes, will be contained in an easily read format in Appendix (A) at the end of NYMEX Chapter 9 Rules.
05/01/2006	05/01/2006	CBOT	Early listing of May and September 2008 Corn and mini-sized Corn futures.
05/01/2006	05/01/2006	NYBOT	Rule Numbers – Rule21.25 Amendments to Rule 21.25 allow the use ofwireless communication devices under certain conditions.

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