JGB Futures

Contract specifications

Update : Nov. 21, 2011

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 5-year JGB Futures10-year JGB Futures 20-year JGB Futures (*2) mini 10-year JGB Futures
Date launched
Feb. 16, 1996
Oct. 19, 1985
Jul. 8, 1988
Mar. 23, 2009
Trading hours
Pre-Open (Order Acceptance) : 8:00
Morning Session : 8:45-11:02
(Open: 8:45-11:00, Closing Auction: 11:02)
Pre-Open (Order Acceptance) : 12:05
Afternoon Session : 12:30-15:02
(Open: 12:30-15:00, Closing Auction: 15:02)
Evening Pre-Open (Order Acceptance) : 15:25
Evening Session : 15:30-23:30
(Open: 15:30-23:25, Closing Auction: 23:30)
Expansion of Trading Hours
Final Settlement Method
Delivery of JGBs
Cash Settlement based on Final Settlement Price
ContractStandardized 3%, 5-year JGB Standardized 6%, 10-year JGB Standardized 6%, 20-year JGB Price of standardized 6%, 10-year JGB
Deliverable grade (*1)Interest-bearing 5-year JGBs with 4 years or more but less than 5.25 years. Interest-bearing 10-year JGBs with 7 years or more but less than 11 years. Interest-bearing 20-year JGBs with 15 years or more but less than 21 years. -
Contract month March, June, September, December cycle (three contract months traded at any one time)
Final Settlement day 20th of each contract month 2nd business day following the last trading day
Last trading day7th business day prior to each delivery date. Trading for the new contract month begins on the business day following the last trading day.8th business day prior to each delivery date of the 10-year JGB Futures for the same contract month. Trading for the new contract month begins on the business day following the last trading day of 10-year JGB Futures.
Trading unit 100 million yen face valueMultiply 100 thousand yen by the price of 10-year JGB Futures
Dynamic Price Range Pre-Open: ±1.00 yen of the base price Pre-Open: ±1.50 yen of the base price Pre-Open: ±1.00 yen of the base price
Open and Closing Auction: ±0.20 yen of the base price
Function to Prevent Erroneous Order Placement
Daily price limit First price limit: ±1.00 yen of the base price
Second price limit: ±2.00 yen of the base price
Maximum price limit: ±3.00 yen of the base price
First price limit:±1.50 yen of the base price
Second price limit: ±3.00 yen of the base price
Maximum price limit:±4.50 yen of the base price
First price limit: ±1.00 yen of the base price
Second price limit: ±2.00 yen of the base price
Maximum price limit: ±3.00 yen of the base price
Circuit Brake (1) In cases where the central contract month (excluding mini-10 year JGB futures) is executed at the upper or lower limit of the price limit on a bid or offer, all contract months shall be suspended for 15 minutes. (*3)
(2) In cases where a transaction is not effected for 5 minutes after a bid or offer is placed to the central contract month (excluding mini-10 year JGB futures) at the upper or lower limit of the price limit, trading shall be suspended for 10 minutes. (*3)
Payment or Receipt as the result of offsetting
The next business day following the offsetting (T+1)
Delivery of BondsThe delivery of issues is at the discretion of the seller of the futures contract. -
Cancellation Policy TSE may apply the rules for canceling executed transactions in futures/options only when it deems that the market will be significantly disrupted due to smooth performance of settlement of executed transactions pertaining to the erroneous order being extremely difficult and/or other reasons.

  • (*1)The deliverable grade is limited to issues whose month of issue is at least 3 months before the month of delivery.
  • (*2)TSE has decided to halt trading on new contract months for 20-year JGB Futures beginning with the December 2002 contract.
  • (*3)In cases where circuit breaker criterion (1) is met within 25 minutes of the end of the afternoon or evening session, or where circuit breaker criterion (2) is met within 20 minutes of the end of the afternoon or evening session, neither a temporary trading suspension nor an expansion of daily price limits shall be enacted before the end of trading. Additionally, in cases where circuit breaker criterion (1) is met within 15 minutes of the end of the morning session, or where circuit breaker criterion (2) is met within 10 minutes of the end of the morning session, a temporary trading suspension shall be enacted until the end of such morning session.

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