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URETARIAT
Via E-Mail

Office of the Secretariat

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Three Lafayette Centre

1155 21st Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20581

Re: Rule Certification. NYMEX Submission 05.183: Notification
of Amendments to NYMEX Division Rule 6.90, Trading Card
Procedures.

Dear Ms. Jean Webb:

The New York Mercantile Exchange ("NY MEX" or the "Exchange") is notifying the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) of amendments to
NYMEX Rule 6.90, Trading Card Procedures.

Effective Wednesday, October 12, 2005, the amendments enable a floor broker’s clerk to
submit Inter-Exchange Arbitrage (“IXA”) transactions to the Exchange on his or her employer’s
behalf, on a pit card that is not among the sequentially numbered trading cards used by the broker
for the relevant day’s trading, indicating the terms of the trade, labeling the pit card as
“EFP/EFS/IXA” only, and submitting the card to the late submissions window. Pursuant to
Section Sc(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act (“Act”) and CFTC Rule 40.6, the Exchange
hereby certifies that the attached rule amendment complies with the Act, including regulations
under the Act.

Should you have any questions concerning the above, please contact me at (212)
299-2940.

Very truly yours,

Nancy M. Minett
Vice President, Compliance

cc: Thomas LaSala
Brian Regan


(Additions are in bold/underlined; deletions in bold strikethrough.)
NYMEX Rule 6.90, Trading Card Procedures

(A) A Floor Member shall regularly and promptly record all transactions that he executes on a
sequentially numbered trading card pre-printed and issued by the Exchange. The Exchange shall maintain
a record of all trading cards issued to such Floor Member. Each member shall be accountable for
maintaining the original soft ply of all trading cards issued to such member in exact numerical sequence,
including soft plies which are not used by the Floor Member or collected by the Exchange. Where the
transaction is an EFP er EFS or IXA, not executed by the Floor Member, the Floor Member’s clerk may
record the transaction on a separate trading card, provided that the trading card is clearly marked
“EFP/EFS/IXA only.”

(B) All trading cards shall show the Member's symbol, the date, price differential or premium, quantity,
commodity, delivery month or expiration date, the opposite Floor Member, and, for options, the strike
price, and whether the transaction involved a put or a call. With the exception of trades executed during
the opening or closing ranges, members shall record the exact time of execution to the minute of the first
trade made on each trading card. Members shall identify on their trading cards all trades executed during
the opening and closing ranges by marking a line across the card below all transactions executed during
the opening and above all transactions executed during the closing range. All transactions must be
recorded in exact chronological order of execution on sequential lines of the trading card without
skipping lines between trades. If any lines remain after the final transaction has been recorded on a
trading card, they shall be marked through by the Floor Member. EFP/EFS/IXA transactions may be
recorded on a separate non-sequentially numbered trading card.

(C) Trading Cards may be collected by the Exchange, at such times and pursuant to such procedures as
may be adopted by the Board.

(D) The hard ply of the trading card shall be used to report the sale of futures and options contracts
within | minute of execution in accordance with Exchange Rule 6.10. Additionally, if any hard ply
contains only purchases of futures or options contracts, the Floor Member must submit the hard copy ply
of the trading card to the Exchange prior to using the next sequentially numbered trading card.
EFP/EFS/EXA transactions must be promptly submitted to the Exchange and may be submitted by a clerk
provided however, that submission by a clerk must be made to the corrections area only. No transaction
other than an EFP/EFS/IXA may be recorded or submitted by a clerk.

(E) Members (or for EFS/EFP/LXA transactions, their clerks) shall use non-erasable ink when recording
transactions on trading cards. Errors on trading cards may be corrected by placing a single line through
the erroneous information such that the erroneous information remains plainly readable, or by rewriting
the trading card; provided, however, that Members shall be required to maintain all trading cards,
including trading cards containing EFP/EFS/IXA transactions recorded by clerks and those that have
been rewritten. Floor Members may be exempt from personally retaining their trading cards if written
notice, from their FCM or Member Firm employer, is given to the Compliance Department
acknowledging that it is the custodian of a Floor Member's daily trading records (i.e. trading cards, and
customer order memoranda).

(Remainder of the Rule (Sections F through H) are unchanged.