NOS launches clearing of CS4TC freight options - 2006-10-20

Clearing is available to all members with immediate effect.

NOS has developed this product in order to offer a wider service to our members, and to continue offering an ever widening range of products to the market.
Margining of CS4TC freight options will be based on the new margining curves released 14th September
2006.

For more detailed information about margining and the margin curves, please contact NOS freight desk.
Contact details below.
NOS will clear the Options according to Appendix 5 of the NOS / IMAREX Rulebook. For members clearing options for the first time, see the amendments on the rulebook published June 2005:

• http://prod.nos.no/freight/docs/Notice_01-2005.pdf

The updated Rulebook and Notice 05/2006 with the amendments to the Rulebook related to introduction
of CS4TC options is available at:

• http://prod.nos.no/freight/docs/Notice_05-2006.pdf

Please note: Members trading futures only, will not be affected by the recent changes to the Rulebook.

CS4TC FREIGHT OPTIONS STRUCTURE:

• CS4TC freight options will be available for trading and clearing for all NOS members.
• CS4TC freight options will be structured as monthly Call and Put options for the term of rolling 18
  months.
• CS4TC freight options will be Asian style with automatic exercise by NOS. All freight options will
  be settled against the arithmetic average of the Spot Prices for the relevant Underlying Product
  over the number of Index Days in the month.
• The minimum contract size for CS4TC freight options will be 5 days.
• The clearing fee for CS4TC options will be 2% of the option premium.
• All strikes may be cleared with a minimum $25/day price fluctuation.
• All option contracts will be registered on the member s ordinary clearing account with NOS.
• Option premiums will be settled in cash between the member and NOS on the trading day. At
  expiration, all in-the-money options will be automatically settled against the average spot index
  for delivery period.
• The settlement amount - the positive difference between the average index value and the option
  strike, will be booked the last business day of the month.

For more detailed information regarding CS4TC freight options, please see the Rulebook and Appendix 5
(Product Specifications).

See: http://prod.nos.no/freight/agreement.html

For more detailed information regarding margin curves used in the margining calculation, please visit our web site.
See: http://prod.nos.no/freight/documents.html

Contact information:

• For questions related to clearing and margining, please contact:
• Olav Edland, Vice President NOS tel: +47 23 25 93 21
• Morten Larsen, Risk Manager NOS tel: +47 23 25 93 09
• Vegar Fiskvik, Special Adviser NOS tel: +47 23 25 93 20