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LIFFE CONNECT™ has been designed by LIFFE in conjunction with customers and selected independent software vendors to handle all of LIFFE’s financial futures and options contracts. It can be used to access the LIFFE market electronically from the world’s major financial centres (regulatory restrictions may prevent or condition access to LIFFE CONNECT™ in some jurisdictions).


TRX has offered LIFFE CONNECT™ trading platforms to its bureau and telephone clients trading financial products for the past four years. The migration of all of LIFFE's non-financial products to CONNECT was completed on the 27th November 2000.


Summary of trading regulations  
   

Trading hours:
 

Session Start

Pre-Open

Open

Pre-Close

Settlement

Close

Session End

Cocoa
Futures 06:00 06:31 09:30 16:48 16:50 16:50 21:30
Options 06:00 06:31 09:31 16:48   16:50 21:30
 
Coffee
Futures 06:00 06:33 09:40 16:53 16:55 16:55 21:30
Options 06:00 06:33 09:42 16:53   16:55 21:30
 
Sugar
Futures 06:00 06:34 09:45 18:18 18:20 18:20 21:30
Options 06:00 06:34 09:47 18:18   18:20 21:30


N.B.

  1. There is NO trading out period on LIFFE Connect™.
  2. Option settlements will be posted in a timely fashion following the close.

Types of orders accepted on LIFFE Connect™  
   

Limit order:
Limit orders entered into LIFFE Connect wil be executed at the stated limit or better.

Market order:
Market orders are executed at the best price(s) in the market until all available volume has been traded.

Immediate or Cancel:
Immediate or Cancel orders are immediatley executed against against any existing orders (up to the limit level) with any residual volume automatically cancelled.

Good 'til Cancelled:
GTC's remain in the market until they trade, are cancelled or the relevant contract month expires.

Complete Volume:
Complete volume orders will only be executed if there is sufficient volume to fill the order. Otherwise they will be automatically cancelled.

Minimum Volume:
Minimum volume orders will only be executed if the specified minimum volume is immediately available to trade.

Stop Orders:
Stop orders will be executed only if the market trades through the trigger price whereupon the stop will be executed at market.

N.B.
All types of orders can be edited or cancelled once they have been entered into LIFFE Connect.


Client order priority  
   

Allocations are decided by the ‘pro-rata trading algorithm’.

Pro-rata trading means that business can be shared between different orders at the same price, as opposed to trading purely on a first in first out basis.

Pro-rata trading takes three factors into account when deciding client order priority:

  1. Price - best bid/offer price in the market
  2. Time - the time the order was entered into the market
  3. Volume - the volume (number of lots) of a particular order
Volume in particular is key to the allocation process.

LIFFE Connect has set minimum and maximum volume limits for orders that can take priority over the pro-rata trading process. These are effective ONLY if no other order has already been entered at the same price.

Contract – Futures and Options Minimum order volume Maximum order volume
Cocoa and Robusta Coffee 5 lots 100 Lots
White Sugar 1 Lot 100 Lots



Against actual trades:  
   

AA trades will be posted to LIFFE (by the seller of the AA) via our electronic trading system, using LIFFE Connect. The trades will then be settled in the usual manner.


Cross trades:  
   

There is no facility for cross trades available on LIFFE Connect. Instead users must input a buy and sell order at the same level. There is no guarantee (i.e. no 50% rule) that the cross will be successful.

Grading and tendering information:

All grading and tendering information is displayed on the LIFFE website.


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