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Re: New Symbol for Eurodolllars



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"Later, sometime in the fall,...."  Sheesh, hard to believe they could be
that obtuse.

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>Dear Mr. Mazzulla,
>
>Thank you for your email.  We are mapping the data for this symbol to "WE". 
>
>"WE" has always been our symbol for the night session (Globex).  The only
>difference now is that the CME used send both day and night session
>Eurodollars under "ED"; and we mapped the night session to WE.  Now they are
>sending day session data under ED and the night session under GE.  So the
>change is transparent to the user.
>
>Later, sometime in the fall, the CME will expand the Globex hours for
>Eurodollars so the pit session and Globex will be trading side-by-side
>during the day.  Then we will drop the mapping to WE, and use GE as a 24
>hour Globex symbol.  ED will remain as the symbol for the day pit session.
>
>Bryan Vigil
>DBC Technical Support
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	tagteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:tagteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent:	Wednesday, July 07, 1999 7:23 AM
>> To:	TSbmi@xxxxxxx
>> Subject:	New Symbol for Eurodolllars
>> 
>> Side-by-side trading of the CME's Eurodollar contract began yesterday
>> (7/6/99). The symbol for the electronically traded ED is GE. GE is traded
>> on Globex2 and I have yet to see any data for the contract (even though it
>> traded over 3000 on the first day). This symbol needs to be added to the
>> other futures contracts you transmit. Thanks.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Jim Mazzulla