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Wholesale Trading

Eurex wholesale trade entry facilities enable participants to enter off-order book trades in the Eurex® system. With these facilities you can benefit from the flexibility of customized trading and the advantages of standardized clearing and settlement. The facilities are pure trade entry facilities with bilateral agreement of price and quantities; the Multilateral Trade Registration Facility supports pre-negotiated OTC trading with multiple counterparties.

  • Multilateral Trade Registration (MTR)
  • Block Trades
  • Trade Entry Service
  • Vola Trades
  • Flexible Options
  • Flexible Futures
  • Exchange for Physicals (EFP-Fin)
  • Exchange for Physicals Index (EFPI)
  • Exchange for Swaps (EFS)

Volume Development (in Million Contracts)


More than 774 million contracts were traded in 2010 (2009: 710) via Eurex's wholesale trade entry facilities with roughly the half of the volume transactions in equity index products.

In 2010 the strongest volume increase was seen within the Single Stock Futures segment:the total volume rose by 55 percent to more than 133 million contracts traded in the wholesale segment (year-to-date, May 2009 versus 2010).

The month of May 2010 too represents a record volume month with almost 130 million contracts traded using Eurex's wholesale trade entry facilities.

Members able to trade and/or clear Eurex Flexible Contracts

The following Eurex Members can be contacted for trading and/or clearing Flexible Futures and Flexible Options.

Name Effective Date File Size File
Trading and Clearing of Eurex Flexible Contracts - Member List Nov 2010 821 kB

Further information regarding Eurex Wholesale Trading Facilities

For the utilization of the Eurex Wholesale Trading facilities special trading hours and conditions apply. Eurex members (or applicants in the admission process) must process the relevant OTC Trade Entry application forms.

Conditions for Utilization of the OTC Trade Entry Facilities (General Conditions for Participation).

Name Effective Date File Size File
EurexOTC Trade Entry Facilities Simulation ToolSep 2011  
Wholesale Trade Entry Facilities: Overview and Issues in Daily Operation Jun 2011 1'061 kB
Eurex OTC Volatility Strategy with Cash Equity Leg Oct 2009 579 kB
Eurex Clearing - Eurex OTC Flexible Contracts Nov 20082'043 kB
Eurex Clearing - Introduction to Eurex OTC Wholesale Trade Facilities Oct 2008 1'685 kB
Eurex Clearing - Clear to Trade Oct 2008 2'038 kB
Enhancement of Eurex Wholesale Trading Facilities: EFPI Oct 2010 970 kB
Enhancement of Eurex Wholesale Trading Facilities:
EFS - Equity Index Futures 		Nov 2008 84 kB
Enhancement of Eurex Wholesale Trading Facilities:
EFP/EFS - Interest Rate Products 		Apr 2008 150 kB
Phonetic Alphabet for Wholesale Trading Facilities 28 Jan 200822 kB
Eurex Product List and Product Grouping daily updated ~ 182 kB