Natural Gas Bungees (limited risk futures) are cash-settled contracts with a variable payout that allow traders to take a position on the expected direction of Natural Gas Futures contracts. Bungees enable traders to speculate on where the price of Natural Gas Futures will be on the designated expiration date, while limiting their risk exposure to extreme volatile price changes.

Contract Type
Bungee (limited risk future) - A cash-settled contract with a variable payout structure and maximum contract value ranging from $100 to $500.

Underlying
The underlying is the price per mmBtu of Natural Gas (in U.S. dollars) obtained from the Physical Natural Gas Futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX^®1).

Contract Value
$300; The maximum contract payout value.

Tick Value
$1; The dollar value payout per tick movement in the underlying market.

Tick Size
$0.001; The incremental price movement in the underlying that corresponds to the specified tick value.

Minimum Price Increment
$0.001; All prices must be entered in increments equivalent to the contract's tick size of $0.001, starting from the specified floor (lower level) to the specified cap (upper level).

Bungee Range
$0.30; The values between which payout for the Bungee contract is determined, defined by a floor and a cap.

Trading Hours
Regular session trading hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm ET, Monday through Thursday and 8:00am to 4:00pm ET on Friday. On the contract's specified last trading day, Natural Gas bungee contracts close at 2:30pm ET. For additional information, please refer to the Trading Hours Table.

Trading Months
The futures contract months that will be used for the underlying will be taken from all twelve NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract delivery months (NFC Delivery Month): January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, or December. Please refer to the Settlement Source Table for a schedule of the dates associated with the specific NFC Delivery Months that will be used as the underlying.

Last Trading Day
Trading in the contract will stop as of the date listed in the contract's name and in the "At a Glance" table (right).

Expiration Date
The date on which the expiration value for the contract is calculated or released. For Natural Gas bungee contracts, the expiration date is usually the same day as the last trading day, which is listed in the "At a Glance" table (right).

Settlement Date and Time
The date on which the final settlement value is determined and cash payouts are made to the appropriate member accounts. Contracts are settled on the specified settlement date, which is listed in the "At a Glance" table (right). Settlement generally occurs within an hour of a contract's closing time (the closing time is displayed in the name of the contract). For Natural Gas bungee contracts, the settlement date is usually the same as the expiration date.

Expiration Value
The expiration value of Natural Gas is calculated by HedgeStreet by using a proprietary algorithm that takes a sampling of data points obtained from the relevant Natural Gas futures contract currently trading on the NYMEX. HedgeStreet calculates the expiration value by taking the last 25 trade prices in the designated NYMEX Natural Gas futures contract just prior to the close of trading in the designated HedgeStreet bungee contract and removes the highest 5 and the lowest 5 trade prices, using the remaining 15 NYMEX Natural Gas futures trade prices to calculate the expiration value. The calculation used is a simple average of all 15 Natural Gas futures contract trade prices.

Settlement Value
The settlement value, a cash payout, ranges from $0 to $300, depending on the final expiration value of Natural Gas relative to the Bungee's range.

Speculative Position Limits
The aggregate position limit is 83,333 contracts.

Underlying Data Feed
Natural Gas underlying price quotes are displayed by Barchart with a 30 minute delay in the Trader Center.

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2:30PM Jun Natural Gas $5.000 to $5.300 (W) Bungee (08 May 09)
This Bungee contract allows traders to take a position on movements in the Natural Gas price within the range of $5.000 to $5.300, as calculated by HedgeStreet (based on the NYMEX June 2009 Natural Gas Futures contract) on May 8, 2009.

Bungee Name Format
[LTD CLOSE TIME][UNDERLYING FUTURES][ASSET][RANGE][DURATION][LAST TRADING DAY]

LTD Close Time
"2:30PM" - The time on the last trading date that the contract will stop trading.

Underlying Futures
"Jun" - The Natural Gas futures contract month on which the contract is based, where the year is the nearest delivery year available for the futures month listed. In this case, the underlying futures contract month would be June 2009.

Asset
"Natural Gas" - The underlying for the bungee contract.

Range
"$5.000 to $5.300" - specifies the values between which payout is determined. The floor (lower level) is $5.000, and the cap (upper level) is $5.300. Traders receive $1 per $0.001 movement in the underlying Natural Gas price within this range.

Duration
"(W)" - Weekly duration.

Last Trading Day
"(08 May 09)" - The date the contract will stop trading.

Positions
Buy if you think the price of Natural Gas will increase as of May 8, 2009.

Sell if you think the price of Natural Gas will decrease as of May 8, 2009.

Settlement
Final payout is based on the expiration value of Natural Gas futures, relative to the Bungee's range. For buyers, the final payout is as follows:

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