HKEX To Add Long-Dated Contract Months For Futures And Options From 4 December

HSI and HSCEI Futures and Options to be enhanced from 4 December
Long-dated contract months to be rolled out for HSI and HSCEI Futures
Additional long-dated contract months to be rolled out for HSI and HSCEI Options

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) announced today (Wednesday) that it will introduce long-dated contract months for its Hang Seng Index (HSI) and Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (HSCEI) Futures and increase the long-dated contract months for its HSI and HSCEI Options, with maturities up to 5.5 years, on Monday, 4 December 2017.

HSI Futures, HSI Options, HSCEI Futures and HSCEI Options are HKEX’s flagship products and accounted for 43 per cent of the total derivatives volume at HKEX in the first nine months of this year.

Contract Months Now and from 4 December 2017

	Now	From 4 December 2017
HSI Futures	Spot, next calendar month and next 2 calendar quarter months	Short-dated Futures Spot, next calendar month and next 2 calendar quarter months; and Long-dated Futures Following 5 December months
HSCEI Futures
HSI Options	Short-dated Options Spot, next 3 calendar months and next 3 calendar quarter months; and Long-dated Options Next 5 months of June and December	Short-dated Options Spot, next 3 calendar months and next 3 calendar quarter months; and Long-dated Options Next 3 months of June and December and following 3 December months
HSCEI Options	Short-dated Options Spot, next 3 calendar months and next 3 quarter months; and Long-dated Options Next 3 months of June and December

Additional information is available in the news release section of the HKEX website.