SUBMISSION COVER SHEET

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Registered Entity Identifier Code (optional): 16-137

Organization: The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. ("CBOT")

Filing as a: DCM SEF DCO SDR 

Please note - only ONE choice allowed.

Filing Date (mm/dd/yy): April 4, 2016 Filing Description: Weekly Notification of 

Amendments Related to Product Terms and Conditions (Week of March 28, 2016)

SPECIFY FILING TYPE 

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Organization Rules and Rule Amendments

Certification § 40.6(a)

Approval § 40.5(a)

Notification § 40.6(d)

Advance Notice of SIDCO Rule Change § 40.10(a)

SIDCO Emergency Rule Change § 40.10(h)

Rule Numbers: 

New Product Please note only ONE product per Submission.

Certification § 40.2(a) 

Certification Security Futures § 41.23(a)

Certification Swap Class § 40.2(d)

Approval § 40.3(a)

Approval Security Futures § 41.23(b)

Novel Derivative Product Notification § 40.12(a)

Swap Submission § 39.5

Official Product Name: 

Product Terms and Conditions (product related Rules and Rule Amendments)

Certification § 40.6(a) 

Certification Made Available to Trade Determination § 40.6(a)

Certification Security Futures § 41.24(a)

Delisting (No Open Interest) § 40.6(a) 

Approval § 40.5(a)

Approval Made Available to Trade Determination § 40.5(a)

Approval Security Futures § 41.24(c)

Approval Amendments to enumerated agricultural products § 40.4(a), § 40.5(a)

“Non-Material Agricultural Rule Change” § 40.4(b)(5)

Notification § 40.6(d)

Official Name(s) of Product(s) Affected: See filing.

Rule Numbers: See filing.
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Christopher Bowen 

Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Counsel

Legal Department

April 4, 2016

VIA ELECTRONIC PORTAL

Mr. Christopher J. Kirkpatrick

Office of the Secretariat

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Three Lafayette Centre

1155 21st Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20581

RE: CFTC Regulation 40.6(d) Notification. The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. 

("CBOT” or “Exchange”) Weekly Notification of Amendments Related to Product Terms 

and Conditions.

CBOT Submission No. 16-137

Dear Mr. Kirkpatrick:

Pursuant to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) Regulation 40.6(d), the 

Exchange submits this weekly notification of the following amendments related to product terms and 

conditions made effective during the week of March 28, 2016.

On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, the Exchange made non-substantive administrative amendments to the 

Special Price Fluctuation Limits Table (“Circuit Breaker Table”) in CBOT Rule 589 to conform with the 

Non-Reviewable Trading Ranges Table in CBOT Rule 588. Amendments to the CBOT Rulebook, Rule 

589 Circuit Breaker Table are attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

If you require any additional information, please e-mail CMEGSubmissionInquiry@cmegroup.com or

contact the undersigned at (212) 299-2200. 

Sincerely, 

/s/ Christopher Bowen

Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Counsel

Attachment: Exhibit A – Amendments to CBOT Rulebook, Rule 589 Circuit Breaker Table (blackline 

format)
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EXHIBIT A

CBOT RULEBOOK

Rule 589

Circuit Breaker Table

(additions underlined; deletions overstruck)

Product

Rulebook

Chapter

Commodity

Code

Primary/

Associated

Associated

With

Base in

Real

Economic

Value

Level

E-mini 

Dow ($5) 

Weekly 

Options

27A YM# Associated YM

See 

Rulebook

Chapter

E-mini 

Dow ($5) 

End of 

Month 

Options

27A EYM Associated YM

See 

Rulebook

Chapter

E-Mini 

S&P 500 

Weekly 

Options

358A EW1, EW2, EW3, EW4, EW5

EW# Associated ES

See 

Rulebook 

Chapter

E-mini 

NASDAQ 

Weekly 

Options

359A QN1, QN2, QN3, QN4, QN5 QN# Associated NQ

See 

Rulebook 

Chapter