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BALMO Swap
Specifications
Margins
Termination Schedule
Terms & Conditions
Dubai Crude Oil BALMO Swap Futures
Trading Unit
1000 barrels
Price Quotation
U.S. dollars and cents per barrel.
Minimum Price Fluctuation
$0.001 per barrel
Trading Hours (all times are New York time)
The contract is available for trading on the NYMEX ClearPort® trading platform from 6:00 PM Sundays through 5:15 PM Fridays, with a 45-minute break each day between 5:15 PM and 6:00 PM. Off-Exchange transactions can be submitted solely for clearing to the NYMEX ClearPort® clearing website as an exchange of futures for swaps (EFS) or exchange of futures for physicals (EFP) transaction until 5:15 PM, Monday through Friday, and the day preceding a holiday.
Trading Months
One contract month, and the next contract month will be listed ten business days before the start of the contract month.
Termination of Trading
Trading terminates at the close of business on the last business day of the contract month.
Settlement Type
Financial, based on the arithmetic average of the Platts Dubai frontline mean, starting from the day of execution until the last day of the contract month. The BALMO contracts allow the user to customize the balance-of-month period by selecting the start date (or first day) of the BALMO averaging period.

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Trading Symbol
BI
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