Inter-office. (i) Inter-office trading is conducted between members by telephone or by electronic means. On contacting an LME member for a quote, customers will usually be provided with the member’s current bid and offer. The customer may trade on this quote, call another member in an attempt to improve the quote, leave a resting order with a member, or wait and monitor prices on the LME market data system. If an order cannot be filled from the member’s book, it may be executed via a back-to-back Exchange Contract agreed via a telephone deal with another member or executed via an electronic trading system.
Inter-office. Inter-office trading is conducted between members by telephone or by electronic means. On contacting an LME member for a quote, clients will usually be provided with the member’s current bid and offer. The client may trade on this quote, or call another member in an attempt to improve the quote, or wait and monitor prices on the LME market data system, or leave an order with a member. If an order cannot be filled from the member’s book, it may be executed via a back-to-back Exchange Contract agreed via a telephone deal with another member or executed via an electronic trading system. LME Select allows members to trade LME futures Contracts in metals and plastics, traded options and Traded Average Price Option contracts (TAPOs), and an index future and option. MSI plc also offers an order routing facility to clients via an Application Protocol Interface (API) which allows them to view Select prices, execute trades, and place resting orders. All trading on LME Select is in US dollars. LME Select replaces neither inter-office trading nor trading in the ring. Depending on the time of day, it is possible for members to deal by telephone or electronically in the inter-office market, by LME Select, or in the rings. Clients should specify which mechanism their broker should use to effect an order, where they have a preference. Firm prices of the best bid and offer available on LME Select, the total volumes available at these prices, and the price and volume of each trade transacted are distributed to and displayed in real time by information vendors. Only LME Select prices are displayed, not those of other third party electronic trading system providing LME prices. Only RDMs and ABCMs are eligible to become LME Select Participants and to have direct access to the system. Clients may effect back-to-back client contracts based upon prices available on LME Select, whether on the telephone or via electronic order-routing systems.
Inter-office. Inter-office trading is conducted between members by telephone or by electronic means. On contacting an LME member, customers will usually be provided, on request, with the member’s current bid-ask quote. The customer may trade on this quote, or call another member in an attempt to improve the quote, or wait and monitor prices on the LME market data system, or leave an order with a member. If an order is left with a member for execution and not taken on its own book, it may be executed via a ‘back to back’ Exchange Contract agreed via a telephone deal with another member or executed via an electronic trading system. LME Select allows members to trade all LME Metal Contracts, Index Contracts, Exchange Metal Options or Traded Average Price Option contracts, for all prompt dates and carries, and for all series. All trading on LME Select is in US dollars. LME Select replaces neither inter-office trading nor trading in the ring. Depending on the time of day, it is possible for members to deal by telephone or electronically in the inter-office market, by LME Select, or in the rings. Customers should specify which mechanism they prefer where they have a preference. Firm prices of the best bid and offer available on LME Select, the total volumes available at these prices, and the price and volume of each trade transacted are distributed to and displayed in real time by information vendors. Only LME Select prices are displayed, not those of other third party electronic trading system providing LME prices. Only RDMs and ABCMs are eligible to become LME Select Participants and to have direct access to the system. Customers may effect ‘back to back’ client contracts based upon prices available on LME Select via such members. ORDER STYLES Customer orders are not traded in the rings or xxxxx, so an order using the term ‘in/on/during the ring/kerb’ will be executed on the basis of the prices traded/quoted during the particular session. If a customer requires their order to be ‘shown’ or traded across the ring/kerb then they should make this requirement known to their executor, who may or may not accept this as a term of the order. The equivalent Exchange Contract for a customer order may not replicate its terms. As the customer is not a party to any Exchange Contracts i.e. those traded in open outcry between members in the ring/kerb sessions, in specifying ring/kerb, the customer is merely identifying a pricing mechanism. A member which undertakes to match a price traded...
