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Description

A financially settled peak load daily futures contract based upon the hourly prices from 08:00 (CET) until 20:00 (CET) of the German Day-Ahead auction comprising the control area operated by Amprion GmbH, for each day, excluding weekend days and regardless of public holidays, throughout the contract period

Market Specifications

Trading Screen Product Name

German Power Financial Peak Daily Futures

Trading Screen Hub Name

German Grid

Contract Symbol

DGA

Trading Period

Up to 92 consecutive daily contracts or as otherwise determined and announced by the Exchange from time to time. All Daily Products are strips of one or more daily contracts and are listed in parallel.

7 consecutive days.

5 consecutive weeks. Weeks are strips of 5 consecutive daily contracts (Monday through Friday).

Expiration Date

Trading of Day contracts will cease at the close of business on the Business Day prior to the delivery day, except when the delivery day is the day after a non-Business day, in which case trading will cease at the close of business on the first Business Day after the non-Business day.

Trading of Week contracts will cease at the close of business on the last Business Day before the delivery period

Contract Security

ICE Clear Europe (ICEU) acts as central counterparty to all trades thereby guaranteeing the financial performance of ICE Endex contracts registered in the name of its Members up to and including delivery, exercise and/or settlement.

Trading Hours

Open 08:00, Close 18:00 (CET), Monday – Friday.

Trading Model

Continuous trading throughout trading hours.

Trading Methods

Electronic futures, Exchange for Physical (EFP), Exchange for Swap (EFS) and Block Trades are available for this contract.

Unit of Trading

1 MW

Contract Size

1 MW per day in the contract period (i.e. day or week) x 12 hours.

Minimum Trading Size

1 lot = 1 MW (Electronic Futures, EFP, EFS)

Minimum Block Order

1 lot = 1 MW

Quotation

The contract price is in Euros and Euro cents per MWh.

Minimum Price Fluctuation

1 Euro Cent per MWh (€0.01/MWh)

Tick Value

Contract Size x Minimum Trade Size x Minimum Price Flux

Settlement Price

The cash settlement price of the contract is equal to the arithmetic mean of the German Day-Ahead auction price comprising the control area operated by Amprion GmbH of each hour between 08:00 (CET) and 20:00 (CET) for each day, excluding weekend days and regardless of public holidays, throughout the contract period.

Position Limit

Positions are reported to ICE Endex on a daily basis. ICE Endex has powers to prevent the development of excessive positions or unwarranted speculation or any other undesirable situation and may take steps to resolve such situations including the ability to mandate Members to limit the size of such positions or to reduce positions where appropriate.

Initial Margin

Calculated on all open contracts, Initial Margin, as defined in the ICE Clear Europe Clearing Rules, is a deposit held by ICE Clear Europe in order to cover the costs that may be incurred in closing out a position in default. It is returned upon the closing of the position, or at expiry, with interest.

Daily Margin

All open contracts are 'marked-to-market' daily, with Variation Margin, as defined in the ICE Clear Europe Clearing Rules, being called for as appropriate.

Cash Settlement Obligations

In respect to each lot (1 MW) the following payments shall be made:
Where the Cash Settlement Price
(i) exceeds the contract price, payment by the Seller to the Clearing House;
(ii) exceeds the contract price, payment by the Clearing House to the Buyer;
(iii) is less than the contract price, payment by the Clearing House to the Seller;
(iv) is less than the contract price, payment by the Buyer to the Clearing House,
of an amount calculated by multiplying the difference between the Cash Settlement Price and the contract price by the number of hours in the day (12).

Where the Cash Settlement Price is equal to the contract price, no payments shall be made between the Seller (or Buyer) and the Clearing House

The applicable contract price is the applied settlement price to the open position at the latest marked-to-market. For the position resulting from the transactions executed on the last settlement date, the contract price is the transaction price.

MIC Code

NDEX

Clearing Venues

ICEU

Related Products

• German Power Financial Base Futures
• German Power Financial Base Daily Futures
• German Power Financial Peak Futures

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