Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To List and Trade Shares of the Teucrium Natural Gas Fund Under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, 78290-78295 [2010-31455]
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III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
The foregoing rule change has become
effective pursuant to Section
19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act.10 At any time
within 60 days of the filing of such
proposed rule change, the Commission
summarily may temporarily suspend
such rule change if it appears to the
Commission that such action is
necessary or appropriate in the public
interest, for the protection of investors,
or otherwise in furtherance of the
purposes of the Act. If the Commission
takes such action, the Commission shall
institute proceedings to determine
whether the proposed rule should be
approved or disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
printing in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, 100 F Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20549 on official
business days between the hours of
10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of such filing
also will be available for inspection and
copying at the principal office of the
ISE. All comments received will be
posted without change; the Commission
does not edit personal identifying
information from submissions. You
should submit only information that
you wish to make available publicly. All
submissions should refer to File
Number SR–ISE–2010–112 and should
be submitted by January 5, 2011.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and the
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
[FR Doc. 2010–31456 Filed 12–14–10; 8:45 am]
1. Purpose
BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200,
Commentary .02 permits the trading of
Trust Issued Receipts (‘‘TIRs’’) either by
listing or pursuant to unlisted trading
privileges (‘‘UTP’’).4 The Exchange
proposes to list and trade shares
(‘‘Shares’’) of the Teucrium Natural Gas
Fund (‘‘Fund’’) pursuant to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.200.
The Exchange notes that the
Commission has previously approved
the listing and trading of other issues of
Trust Issued Receipts on the American
Stock Exchange LLC,5 trading on NYSE
Arca pursuant to unlisted trading
privileges (‘‘UTP’’),6 and listing on NYSE
Arca.7 Among these is the Teucrium
Corn Fund, a series of the Teucrium
Commodity Trust (‘‘Trust’’).8 In addition,
the Commission has approved other
exchange-traded fund-like products
linked to the performance of underlying
commodities.9
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[Release No. 34–63493; File No. SR–
NYSEArca–2010–110]
• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml); or
• Send an E-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File
No. SR–ISE–2010–112 on the subject
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Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
Arca Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed
Rule Change To List and Trade Shares
of the Teucrium Natural Gas Fund
Under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200
December 9, 2010.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) 1 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
• Send paper comments in triplicate
‘‘Act’’) 2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3
to Elizabeth Murphy, Secretary,
notice is hereby given that, on December
Securities and Exchange Commission,
3, 2010, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the
100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC
‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) filed with
20549–1090.
the Securities and Exchange
All submissions should refer to File
Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) the
Number SR–ISE–2010–112. This file
proposed rule change as described in
number should be included on the
Items I and II below, which Items have
subject line if e-mail is used. To help the been prepared by the self-regulatory
Commission process and review your
organization. The Commission is
comments more efficiently, please use
publishing this notice to solicit
only one method. The Commission will comments on the proposed rule change
post all comments on the Commission’s from interested persons.
Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
submission, all subsequent
the Proposed Rule Change
amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule
The Exchange proposes to list and
change that are filed with the
trade shares of the Teucrium Natural
Commission, and all written
Gas Fund under NYSE Arca Equities
communications relating to the
Rule 8.200. The text of the proposed
proposed rule change between the
rule change is available at the Exchange,
Commission and any person, other than the Commission’s Public Reference
those that may be withheld from the
Room, and https://www.nyse.com.
public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
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In its filing with the Commission, the
self-regulatory organization included
statements concerning the purpose of,
and basis for, the proposed rule change
and discussed any comments it received
on the proposed rule change. The text
of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below.
The Exchange has prepared summaries,
set forth in sections A, B, and C below,
of the most significant parts of such
statements.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.11
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
Electronic Comments
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II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
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4 Commentary .02 to NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.200 applies to TIRs that invest in ‘‘Financial
Instruments’’. The term ‘‘Financial Instruments’’, as
defined in Commentary .02(b)(4) to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.200, means any combination of
investments, including cash; securities; options on
securities and indices; futures contracts; options on
futures contracts; forward contracts; equity caps,
collars and floors; and swap agreements.
5 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
58161 (July 15, 2008), 73 FR 42380 (July 21, 2008)
(SR–Amex–2008–39).
6 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
58163 (July 15, 2008), 73 FR 42391 (July 21, 2008)
(SR–NYSEArca–2008–73).
7 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
58457 (September 3, 2008), 73 FR 52711 (September
10, 2008) (SR–NYSEArca–2008–91).
8 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 62213
(June 3, 2010), 75 FR 32828 (June 9, 2010) (SR–
NYSEArca–2010–22) (order approving listing on the
Exchange of Teucrium Corn Fund).
9 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos.
57456 (March 7, 2008), 73 FR 13599 (March 13,
2008) (SR–NYSEArca–2007–91) (order granting
accelerated approval for NYSE Arca listing the
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The Shares represent beneficial
ownership interests in the Fund, as
described in the Registration
Statement.10 The Fund is a commodity
pool that is a series of the Trust, a
Delaware statutory trust. The Fund is
managed and controlled by Teucrium
Trading, LLC (‘‘Sponsor’’). The Sponsor
is a Delaware limited liability company
that is registered as a commodity pool
operator (‘‘CPO’’) with the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’)
and is a member of the National Futures
Association.
Teucrium Natural Gas Fund
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According to the Fund’s Registration
Statement, the investment objective of
the Fund is to have the daily changes in
percentage terms of the Shares’ net asset
value (‘‘NAV’’) reflect the daily changes
in percentage terms of a weighted
average of the following: the nearest to
spot month March, April, October and
November Henry Hub Natural Gas
Futures Contracts (‘‘Natural Gas Futures
Contracts’’) traded on the NYMEX,
weighted 25% equally in each contract
month, less the Fund’s expenses. (This
weighted average of the four referenced
Natural Gas Futures Contracts is
referred to herein as the ‘‘Gas
Benchmark,’’ and the four Natural Gas
Futures Contracts that at any given time
make up the Gas Benchmark are referred
to herein as the ‘‘Gas Benchmark
Component Futures Contracts.’’).11
iShares GS Commodity Trusts); 59781 (April 17,
2009), 74 FR 18771 (April 24, 2009) (SR–
NYSEArca–2009–28) (order granting accelerated
approval for NYSE Arca listing the ETFS Silver
Trust); 59895 (May 8, 2009), 74 FR 22993 (May 15,
2009) (SR–NYSEArca–2009–40) (order granting
accelerated approval for NYSE Arca listing the
ETFS Gold Trust); 61219 (December 22, 2009), 74
FR 68886 (December 29, 2009) (order approving
listing on NYSE Arca of the ETFS Platinum Trust).
10 See Amendment No. 1 to registration statement
on Form S–1 for Teucrium Commodity Trust, dated
September 7, 2010 (File No. 333–167593) relating
to the Teucrium Natural Gas Fund (‘‘Registration
Statement’’). The discussion herein relating to the
Trust and the Shares is based on the Registration
Statement.
11 Natural gas futures volume on NYMEX for 2009
and 2010 (through October 29, 2010) was
47,864,639 contracts and 52,490,180 contracts,
respectively. As of October 29, 2010, NYMEX open
interest for natural gas futures was 794,741
contracts, and open interest for near month futures
was 47,313 contracts. The contract price was
$40,380 ($4.038 per MMBtu and 10,000 MMBtu per
contract). The approximate value of all outstanding
contracts was $32.1 billion. The position limits for
all months is 12,000 contracts and the total value
of contracts if position limits were reached would
be approximately $484.56 million (based on the
$40,380 contract price). As of October 29, 2010,
open interest in natural gas swaps cleared on the
NYMEX was approximately 2,618,092 contracts,
with an approximate value of $26.4 billion ($4.038
per MMBtu and 2,500 MMBtu per contract). Natural
gas futures are also traded on ICE and the European
Energy Exchange.
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The Fund seeks to achieve its
investment objective by investing under
normal market conditions in Gas
Benchmark Component Futures
Contracts or, in certain circumstances,
in other Natural Gas Futures Contracts
traded on the New York Mercantile
Exchange (‘‘NYMEX’’), Intercontinental
Exchange (‘‘ICE’’), and other foreign
exchanges. In addition, and to a limited
extent, the Fund will invest in natural
gas-based swap agreements that are
cleared through the ICE or its affiliated
provider of clearing services (‘‘Cleared
Natural Gas Swaps’’) to the extent
permitted and appropriate in light of the
liquidity in the Cleared Natural Gas
Swap market. Once position limits in
Natural Gas Futures Contracts are
applicable, the Fund may also invest
first in Cleared Natural Gas Swaps to the
extent permitted by the position limits
applicable to Cleared Natural Gas Swaps
and appropriate in light of the liquidity
in the Cleared Natural Gas Swaps
market, and then in contracts and
instruments such as cash-settled options
on Natural Gas Futures Contracts and
forward contracts, swaps other than
Cleared Natural Gas Swaps, and other
over-the-counter transactions that are
based on the price of natural gas and
Natural Gas Futures Contracts
(collectively, ‘‘Other Natural Gas
Interests’’ and together with Natural Gas
Futures Contracts and Cleared Natural
Gas Swaps, ‘‘Natural Gas Interests’’). The
circumstances under which such
investments in Other Natural Gas
Interests may be utilized (e.g.,
imposition of position limits or
accountability limits) are discussed
below.
Natural Gas Futures Contracts traded
on the NYMEX are listed for the current
year and the next five years. However,
the nature of the Gas Benchmark is such
that the Fund will not hold futures
contracts beyond approximately the first
14 months of listed Natural Gas Futures
Contracts.
It is the intent of the Sponsor to never
hold a Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contract to spot. For example,
in terms of the Gas Benchmark, in
January of a given year, the Gas
Benchmark Component Futures
Contracts will be the contracts expiring
in March (the first-to-expire Gas
Benchmark Component Futures
Contract), April (the second-to-expire
Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contract), October (the third-to-expire
Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contract), and November (the fourth-toexpire Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contract). Because the next-toexpire Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contract (the March contract)
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will become spot on the third-to-last
trading day in January, the Sponsor will
‘‘roll’’ or change that contract prior to the
third-to-last trading day in January for a
position in the same month (March) of
the following year, never holding any
futures contract to spot.
According to the Registration
Statement, the Fund seeks to achieve its
investment objective primarily by
investing in Natural Gas Interests such
that daily changes in the Fund’s NAV
will be expected to closely track the
changes in the Gas Benchmark. The
Fund’s positions in Natural Gas
Interests will be changed or ‘‘rolled’’ on
a regular basis in order to track the
changing nature of the Gas Benchmark.
For example, four times a year in the
month in which a Gas Benchmark
Component Futures Contract is set to
become the first-to-expire-natural [sic]
Natural Gas Futures Contract traded on
NYMEX (commonly called the ‘‘spot’’
contract), the first-to-expire Gas
Benchmark Component Contract will
become the next-to-expire (spot) Natural
Gas Futures Contract and will no longer
be a Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contract, and the Fund’s investments
will have to be changed accordingly. In
order that the Fund’s trading does not
cause unwanted market movements and
to make it more difficult for third parties
to profit by trading based on such
expected market movements, the Fund’s
investments typically will not be rolled
entirely on that day, but will typically
be rolled over a period of several days.
Consistent with achieving the Fund’s
investment objective of closely tracking
the Gas Benchmark, the Sponsor may
for certain reasons cause the Fund to
enter into or hold Natural Gas Futures
Contracts other than the Gas Benchmark
Component Futures Contracts, Cleared
Natural Gas Swaps and/or Other Natural
Gas Interests. For example, certain
Cleared Natural Gas Swaps have
standardized terms similar to, and are
priced by reference to, a corresponding
Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contract. Additionally, Other Natural
Gas Interests that do not have
standardized terms and are not
exchange-traded can generally be
structured as the parties to the Natural
Gas Interest contract desire. Therefore,
the Fund might enter into multiple
Other Natural Gas Interests, including
Cleared Natural Gas Swaps, intended to
exactly replicate the performance of
each of the Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contracts, or a single Other
Natural Gas Interest designed to
replicate the performance of the Gas
Benchmark as a whole. According to the
Registration Statement, assuming that
there is no default by a counterparty to
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an Other Natural Gas Interest, the
performance of the Other Natural Gas
Interest will necessarily correlate
exactly with the performance of the Gas
Benchmark or the applicable Gas
Benchmark Component Futures
Contract. The Fund might also enter
into or hold Natural Gas Interests other
than Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contracts to facilitate effective
trading, consistent with the discussion
of the Fund’s ‘‘roll’’ strategy in the
preceding paragraph. In addition, the
Fund might enter into or hold Natural
Gas Interests that would be expected to
alleviate overall deviation between the
Fund’s performance and that of the Gas
Benchmark that may result from certain
market and trading inefficiencies or
other reasons.
The Fund invests in Natural Gas
Interests to the fullest extent possible
without being leveraged or unable to
satisfy its expected current or potential
margin or collateral obligations with
respect to its investments in Natural Gas
Interests.12 After fulfilling such margin
and collateral requirements, the Fund
will invest the remainder of its proceeds
from the sale of baskets in Treasury
Securities or cash equivalents, and/or
hold such assets in cash (generally in
interest-bearing accounts). Therefore,
the focus of the Sponsor in managing
the Fund is investing in Natural Gas
Interests and in Treasury Securities,
cash and/or cash equivalents. The Fund
will earn interest income from the
Treasury Securities and/or cash
equivalents that it purchases and on the
cash it holds through the Fund’s
Custodian.
The Sponsor endeavors to place the
Fund’s trades in Natural Gas Interests
and otherwise manage the Fund’s
investments so that the Fund’s average
daily tracking error against the Gas
Benchmark will be less than 10 percent
over any period of 30 trading days. More
specifically, the Sponsor will endeavor
to manage the Fund so that A will be
within plus/minus 10 percent of B,
where A is the average daily change in
the Fund’s NAV for any period of 30
successive valuation days, i.e., any
trading day as of which the Fund
calculates its NAV, and B is the average
daily change in the Gas Benchmark over
the same period.
The Sponsor employs a ‘‘neutral’’
investment strategy intended to track
the changes in the Gas Benchmark
regardless of whether the Gas
Benchmark goes up or down. The
12 The Sponsor represents that the Fund will
invest in Natural Gas Interests in a manner
consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and
not to achieve additional leverage.
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Fund’s ‘‘neutral’’ investment strategy is
designed to permit investors generally
to purchase and sell the Fund’s Shares
for the purpose of investing indirectly in
the natural gas market in a cost-effective
manner. Such investors may include
participants in the natural gas market
and other industries seeking to hedge
the risk of losses in their natural gasrelated transactions, as well as investors
seeking exposure to the natural gas
market. The Sponsor does not intend to
operate the Fund in a fashion such that
its per share NAV will equal, in dollar
terms, the spot price of British Thermal
Units (‘‘MMBtu’’) of natural gas or the
price of any particular Natural Gas
Futures Contract.
According to the Registration
Statement, the current accountability
level for investments at any one time in
Natural Gas Futures Contracts is 12,000
in any one month. While this is not a
fixed ceiling, it is a threshold above
which the NYMEX may exercise
scrutiny and control over an investor,
including limiting an investor to
holding no more than 12,000 Natural
Gas Futures Contracts.
Cleared Natural Gas Swaps are subject
to accountability levels that are
substantially identical to, but measured
separately from, the accountability
levels on Natural Gas Futures Contracts.
Accountability levels are imposed by
ICE of 48,000 contracts for all months
(12,000 NYMEX NG contract
equivalents); and 24,000 (6,000 NYMEX
NG contract equivalents) for any one
month. Exemptions may be obtained
from these accountability levels for bona
fide hedging, risk management and
spread positions.
In addition to accountability levels,
the NYMEX and ICE may impose
position limits on contracts held in the
last few days of trading in the near
month contract to expire. It is unlikely
that the Fund will be subject to such
position limits because of the Fund’s
investment strategy to ‘‘roll’’ from the
near month contract to expire to the
same month of the following year
during the period beginning two weeks
from the expiration of the contract. The
Fund, however, does not believe the
current position limits imposed by the
NYMEX and ICE will have any impact
on the Fund.13
13 As stated in the Fund’s Registration Statement,
on July 21, 2010, ‘‘The Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act’’ (‘‘DoddFrank Act’’) was signed into law. This new law
contains broad changes to the financial services
industry including provisions changing the
regulation of commodity interests. Such changes
include the requirement that position limits on
energy-based commodity futures contracts be
established; new registration, recordkeeping, capital
and margin requirements for ‘‘swap dealers’’ and
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The exchanges may also set price
fluctuation limits on futures contracts.
The Natural Gas Futures Contracts price
fluctuation limit establishes the
maximum amount that the price of
futures contracts may vary either up or
down from the previous day’s
settlement price or for the price at
which the limit was last imposed. When
a price fluctuation limit is in effect for
a particular futures contract, no trades
may be made at a price beyond that
limit.14
The Fund does not intend to limit the
size of the offering and will attempt to
expose substantially all of its proceeds
to the natural gas market utilizing
Natural Gas Interests. If the Fund
encounters position limits,
accountability levels, or price
fluctuation limits for Natural Gas
Futures Contracts on the NYMEX or
Cleared Natural Gas Swaps on the ICE,
it may then, if permitted under
applicable regulatory requirements,
purchase Natural Gas Interests,
including Natural Gas Futures Contracts
listed on foreign exchanges. However,
the Natural Gas Futures Contracts
available on such foreign exchanges
may have different underlying sizes,
deliveries, and prices. The Natural Gas
Futures Contracts available on such
foreign exchanges may be subject to
their own position limits and
accountability levels. In any case,
notwithstanding the potential
availability of these instruments in
certain circumstances, position limits
could force the Fund to limit the
‘‘major swap participants’’; the forced use of
clearinghouse mechanisms for most over-thecounter transactions; and the aggregation, for
purposes of position limits, of all positions in
energy futures held by a single entity and its
affiliates, whether such positions exist on U.S.
futures exchanges, non-U.S. futures exchanges, or
in over-the-counter contracts. The CFTC has
announced that in accord with the significant
amendments introduced to the Commodity
Exchange Act of 1936 (‘‘CEA’’) (7 U.S.C. 1) by the
Dodd-Frank Act, the CFTC plans to issue a notice
of rulemaking proposing position limits for
regulated exempt commodity contracts, including
energy commodity contracts, as directed by the
CEA. See Federal Speculative Position Limits for
Referenced Energy Contracts and Associated
Regulations, 75 FR 50950 (August 18, 2010).
14 For example, the NYMEX imposes a $3.00 per
MMBtu ($30,000 per contract) price fluctuation
limit for Natural Gas Futures Contracts. This limit
is initially based off of the previous NYMEX trading
day’s settlement price. If any Natural Gas Futures
Contract is traded, bid or offered at the limit for five
minutes, trading is halted for five minutes. When
trading resumes it begins at the point where the
limit was imposed and the limit is reset to be $3.00
per MMBtu in either direction of that point. If
another halt were triggered, the market would
continue to be expanded by $3.00 per MMBtu in
either direction after each successive five-minute
trading halt. There is not a maximum price
fluctuation limit during any one trading session.
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number of Creation Baskets (as defined
below) that it sells.
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Creation and Redemption of Shares
The Fund creates and redeems Shares
only in blocks called Creation Baskets
and Redemption Baskets, respectively,
each consisting of 50,000 Shares for the
Fund. Only Authorized Purchasers may
purchase or redeem Creation Baskets or
Redemption Baskets. An Authorized
Purchaser is under no obligation to
create or redeem baskets, and an
Authorized Purchaser is under no
obligation to offer to the public Shares
of any baskets it does create. Baskets are
generally created when there is a
demand for Shares, including, but not
limited to, when the market price per
share is at (or perceived to be at) a
premium to the NAV per share.
Similarly, baskets are generally
redeemed when the market price per
share is at (or perceived to be at) a
discount to the NAV per share. Retail
investors seeking to purchase or sell
Shares on any day are expected to effect
such transactions in the secondary
market, on the NYSE Arca, at the market
price per share, rather than in
connection with the creation or
redemption of baskets.
The total deposit required to create
each basket (‘‘Creation Basket Deposit’’)
is the amount of Treasury Securities
and/or cash that is in the same
proportion to the total assets of each
Fund (net of estimated accrued but
unpaid fees, expenses and other
liabilities) on the purchase order date as
the number of Shares to be created
under the purchase order is in
proportion to the total number of Shares
outstanding on the purchase order date.
The redemption distribution from the
Fund will consist of a transfer to the
redeeming Authorized Purchaser of an
amount of Treasury Securities and/or
cash that is in the same proportion to
the total assets of the Fund (net of
estimated accrued but unpaid fees,
expenses and other liabilities) on the
date the order to redeem is properly
received as the number of Shares to be
redeemed under the redemption order is
in proportion to the total number of
Shares outstanding on the date the order
is received.
Purchase or redemption orders for
Creation and Redemption Baskets must
be placed by 12 p.m. E.T. or the close
of regular trading on the New York
Stock Exchange, whichever is earlier.
The Fund will meet the initial and
continued listing requirements
applicable to Trust Issued Receipts in
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 and
Commentary .02 thereto. With respect to
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application of Rule 10A–3 15 under the
Act, the Trust relies on the exception
contained in Rule 10A–3(c)(7).16 A
minimum of 100,000 Shares for the
Fund will be outstanding as of the start
of trading on the Exchange.
A more detailed description of
Natural Gas Interests as well as
investment risks, are set forth in the
Registration Statement for the Fund. All
terms relating to the Fund that are
referred to, but not defined in, this
proposed rule change are defined in the
Registration Statement.
Net Asset Value
The NAV for the Fund will be
calculated by the Administrator once a
day and will be disseminated daily to
all market participants at the same
time.17 In determining the value of
Natural Gas Futures Contracts, the
Administrator will use the NYMEX
closing price (usually determined as of
2:30 p.m. E.T.). The value of Cleared
Natural Gas Swaps and over-the-counter
Natural Gas Interests will be determined
based on the value of the commodity or
futures contract underlying such
Natural Gas Interest, except that a fair
value may be determined if the Sponsor
believes that the Fund is subject to
significant credit risk relating to the
counterparty to such Natural Gas
Interest.
Treasury Securities held by the Fund
will be valued by the Administrator
using values received from recognized
third-party vendors and dealer quotes.
NAV will include any unrealized profit
or loss on open Natural Gas Interests
and any other credit or debit accruing to
the Fund but unpaid or not received by
the Fund.
The Exchange also will disseminate
on a daily basis via the Consolidated
Tape Association (‘‘CTA’’) information
with respect to recent NAV, and shares
outstanding. The Exchange will also
make available on its Web site daily
trading volume of the Shares, closing
prices of such Shares, and the
corresponding NAV.
15 17
CFR 240.10A–3.
CFR 240.10A–3(c)(7).
17 The NAV will be calculated by taking the
current market value of the Fund’s total assets and
subtracting any liabilities. Under the Funds’ current
operational procedures, the Administrator, will
calculate the NAV of the Fund’s Shares as of the
earlier of 4 p.m. Eastern Time (‘‘E.T.’’) or the close
of the New York Stock Exchange (ordinarily, 4 p.m.
E.T.) each day. NYSE Arca will calculate an
approximate net asset value every 15 seconds
throughout each day that the Fund’s Shares are
traded on the NYSE Arca for as long as NYMEX’s
main pricing mechanism is open.
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Availability of Information Regarding
the Shares
The Web site for the Fund (https://
www.teucriumnaturalgasfund.com)
and/or the Exchange, which are publicly
accessible at no charge, will contain the
following information: (a) The current
NAV per share daily and the prior
business day’s NAV and the reported
closing price; (b) the midpoint of the
bid-ask price in relation to the NAV as
of the time the NAV is calculated (the
‘‘Bid-Ask Price’’); (c) calculation of the
premium or discount of such price
against such NAV; (d) the bid-ask price
of Shares determined using the highest
bid and lowest offer as of the time of
calculation of the NAV; (e) data in chart
form displaying the frequency
distribution of discounts and premiums
of the Bid-Ask Price against the NAV,
within appropriate ranges for each of
the four (4) previous calendar quarters;
(f) the prospectus; and (g) other
applicable quantitative information. The
Fund will also disseminate its holdings
on a daily basis on the Fund’s Web site.
The Gas Benchmark will be
disseminated by one or more major
market data vendors every 15 seconds
during the NYSE Arca Core Trading
Session of 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. E.T.
Quotation and last-sale information
regarding the Shares will be
disseminated through the facilities of
the CTA. In addition, the Exchange will
provide a hyperlink on its Web site at
https://www.nyse.com to the Fund’s Web
site, which will display all intraday and
closing Gas Benchmark levels, the
intraday Indicative Trust Value (see
below), and NAV.
The daily settlement prices for the
Natural Gas Futures Contracts held by
the Fund are publicly available on the
Web site of the NYMEX. In addition,
various data vendors and news
publications publish futures prices and
data. The Exchange represents that
quotation and last sale information for
the Natural Gas Futures Contracts are
widely disseminated through a variety
of major market data vendors
worldwide, including Bloomberg and
Reuters. In addition, the Exchange
further represents that complete realtime data for the Natural Gas Futures
Contracts is available by subscription
from Reuters and Bloomberg. The
NYMEX and ICE also provide delayed
futures information on current and past
trading sessions and market news free of
charge on their Web sites. The specific
contract specifications for the futures
contracts are also available at the
NYMEX and ICE Web sites, as well as
other financial informational sources.
The spot price of natural gas also is
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available on a 24-hour basis from major
market data vendors. Price and volume
information for cleared swaps is
available from major market data
vendors and on the NYMEX Web site.
The Fund will provide Web site
disclosure of portfolio holdings daily
and will include, as applicable, the
names, quantities, prices and market
values of Financial Instruments held by
the Fund and the characteristics of such
instruments and cash equivalents, and
amount of cash held in the portfolio of
the Fund. This Web site disclosure of
the portfolio composition of the Fund
will occur at the same time as the
disclosure by the Sponsor of the
portfolio composition to Authorized
Purchasers so that all market
participants are provided portfolio
composition information at the same
time. Therefore, the same portfolio
information will be provided on the
public Web site as well as in electronic
files provided to Authorized Purchasers.
Accordingly, each investor will have
access to the current portfolio
composition of the Fund through the
Fund’s Web site.
Dissemination of Indicative Trust Value
In addition, in order to provide
updated information relating to the
Fund for use by investors and market
professionals, an updated Indicative
Trust Value (‘‘ITV’’) will be calculated.
The ITV is calculated by using the prior
day’s closing NAV per Share of the
Fund as a base and updating that value
throughout the trading day to reflect
changes in the value of the Gas
Benchmark Component Futures
Contracts. As stated in the Registration
Statement, changes in the value of overthe-counter Natural Gas Interests,
Treasury Securities and cash
equivalents will not be included in the
calculation of the ITV. The ITV
disseminated during NYSE Arca trading
hours should not be viewed as an actual
real time update of the NAV, which is
calculated only once a day.
The ITV will be disseminated on a per
Share basis by one or more major market
data vendors every 15 seconds during
the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session.
The normal trading hours for Natural
Gas Futures Contracts on NYMEX are
9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. E.T. The ITV will
not be updated, and, therefore, a static
ITV will be disseminated, between the
close of trading on NYMEX of Natural
Gas Futures Contracts and the close of
the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session.
The value of a Share may be influenced
by non-concurrent trading hours
between NYSE Arca and the NYMEX
and ICE when the Shares are traded on
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Natural Gas Futures Contracts on
NYMEX.
The Exchange believes that
dissemination of the ITV provides
additional information regarding the
Fund that is not otherwise available to
the public and is useful to professionals
and investors in connection with the
related Shares trading on the Exchange
or the creation or redemption of such
Shares.
futures contracts persists past the
trading day in which it occurred, the
Exchange will halt trading no later than
the beginning of the trading day
following the interruption. In addition,
if the Exchange becomes aware that the
NAV with respect to the Shares is not
disseminated to all market participants
at the same time, it will halt trading in
the Shares until such time as the NAV
is available to all market participants.
Trading Rules
The Exchange deems the Shares to be
equity securities, thus rendering trading
in the Shares subject to the Exchange’s
existing rules governing the trading of
equity securities. Shares will trade on
the NYSE Arca Marketplace from 4 a.m.
to 8 p.m. E.T. The Exchange has
appropriate rules to facilitate
transactions in the Shares during all
trading sessions. As provided in NYSE
Arca Equities Rule 7.6, Commentary .03,
the minimum price variation (‘‘MPV’’)
for quoting and entry of orders in equity
securities traded on the NYSE Arca
Marketplace is $0.01, with the exception
of securities that are priced less than
$1.00 for which the MPV for order entry
is $0.0001.
The trading of the Shares will be
subject to NYSE Arca Equities Rule
8.200, Commentary .02(e), which sets
forth certain restrictions on ETP Holders
acting as registered Market Makers in
Trust Issued Receipts to facilitate
surveillance. See ‘‘Surveillance’’ below
for more information.
With respect to trading halts, the
Exchange may consider all relevant
factors in exercising its discretion to
halt or suspend trading in the Shares.
Trading may be halted because of
market conditions or for reasons that, in
the view of the Exchange, make trading
in the Shares inadvisable. These may
include: (1) The extent to which trading
is not occurring in the underlying
futures contracts, or (2) whether other
unusual conditions or circumstances
detrimental to the maintenance of a fair
and orderly market are present. In
addition, trading in Shares will be
subject to trading halts caused by
extraordinary market volatility pursuant
to the Exchange’s ‘‘circuit breaker’’
rule 18 or by the halt or suspension of
trading of the underlying futures
contracts.
The Exchange represents that the
Exchange may halt trading during the
day in which the interruption to the
dissemination of the ITV or the value of
the underlying futures contracts occurs.
If the interruption to the dissemination
of the ITV or the value of the underlying
Surveillance
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The Exchange intends to utilize its
existing surveillance procedures
applicable to derivative products,
including Trust Issued Receipts, to
monitor trading in the Shares. The
Exchange represents that these
procedures are adequate to properly
monitor Exchange trading of the Shares
in all trading sessions and to deter and
detect violations of Exchange rules and
applicable Federal securities laws.
The Exchange’s current trading
surveillances focus on detecting
securities trading outside their normal
patterns. When such situations are
detected, surveillance analysis follows
and investigations are opened, where
appropriate, to review the behavior of
all relevant parties for all relevant
trading violations. The Exchange is able
to obtain information regarding trading
in the Shares, the physical commodities
included in, or options, futures or
options on futures on, Shares through
ETP Holders, in connection with such
ETP Holders’ proprietary or customer
trades through ETP Holders which they
effect on any relevant market. The
Exchange can obtain market
surveillance information, including
customer identity information, with
respect to transactions occurring on the
NYMEX or ICE, which are members of
the Intermarket Surveillance Group
(‘‘ISG’’). A list of ISG members is
available at https://www.isgportal.org. 19
In addition, with respect to the Fund’s
futures contracts traded on exchanges,
not more than 10% of the weight of
such futures contracts in the aggregate
shall consist of components whose
principal trading market is not a
member of ISG or is a market with
which the Exchange does not have a
comprehensive surveillance sharing
agreement.
The Exchange also has a general
policy prohibiting the distribution of
material, non-public information by its
employees.
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Interests may trade on markets that are members of
ISG or with which the Exchange has in place a
comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
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Information Bulletin
Prior to the commencement of
trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin
of the special characteristics and risks
associated with trading the Shares.
Specifically, the Information Bulletin
will discuss the following: (1) The risks
involved in trading the Shares during
the Opening and Late Trading Sessions
when an updated ITV will not be
calculated or publicly disseminated; (2)
the procedures for purchases and
redemptions of Shares in Creation
Baskets and Redemption Baskets (and
that Shares are not individually
redeemable); (3) NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 9.2(a), which imposes a duty of
due diligence on its ETP Holders to
learn the essential facts relating to every
customer prior to trading the Shares; (4)
how information regarding the ITV is
disseminated; (5) the requirement that
ETP Holders deliver a prospectus to
investors purchasing newly issued
Shares prior to or concurrently with the
confirmation of a transaction; and (6)
trading information.
In addition, the Information Bulletin
will advise ETP Holders, prior to the
commencement of trading, of the
prospectus delivery requirements
applicable to the Fund. The Exchange
notes that investors purchasing Shares
directly from the Fund will receive a
prospectus. ETP Holders purchasing
Shares from the Fund for resale to
investors will deliver a prospectus to
such investors. The Information Bulletin
will also discuss any exemptive, noaction and interpretive relief granted by
the Commission from any rules under
the Act.
In addition, the Information Bulletin
will reference that the Fund is subject
to various fees and expenses described
in the Registration Statement. The
Information Bulletin will also reference
that the CFTC has regulatory
jurisdiction over the trading of Natural
Gas Futures Contracts traded on U.S.
markets.
The Information Bulletin will also
disclose the trading hours of the Shares
of the Fund and that the NAV for the
Shares is calculated after 4 p.m. E.T.
each trading day. The Bulletin will
disclose that information about the
Shares of the Fund is publicly available
on the Fund’s Web site.
2. Statutory Basis
The proposed rule change is
consistent with Section 6(b) of the
Act,20 in general, and furthers the
objectives of Section 6(b)(5),21 in
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particular, in that it is designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative
acts and practices, to promote just and
equitable principles of trade, to foster
cooperation and coordination with
persons engaged in facilitating
transactions in securities, and to remove
impediments to and perfect the
mechanism of a free and open market
and a national market system. The
Exchange believes that the proposed
rule change will facilitate the listing and
trading of an additional type of
exchange-traded product that will
enhance competition among market
participants, to the benefit of investors
and the marketplace. In addition, the
listing and trading criteria set forth in
NYSE Equities Rule 8.200 are intended
to protect investors and the public
interest.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Burden on Competition
The Exchange does not believe that
the proposed rule change will impose
any burden on competition that is not
necessary or appropriate in furtherance
of the purposes of the Act.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Comments on the
Proposed Rule Change Received From
Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited
or received with respect to the proposed
rule change.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 45 days of the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register or Within such longer period (i)
as the Commission may designate up to
90 days of such date if it finds such
longer period to be appropriate and
publishes its reasons for so finding or
(ii) as to which the self-regulatory
organization consents, the Commission
will:
(A) By order approve or disapprove
the proposed rule change, or
(B) Institute proceedings to determine
whether the proposed rule change
should be disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
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• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml); or
• Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File
Number SR–NYSEArca–2010–110 on
the subject line.
Paper Comments
• Send paper comments in triplicate
to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC
20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File
Number SR–NYSEArca–2010–110. This
file number should be included on the
subject line if e-mail is used. To help the
Commission process and review your
comments more efficiently, please use
only one method. The Commission will
post all comments on the Commission’s
Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
submission, all subsequent
amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule
change that are filed with the
Commission, and all written
communications relating to the
proposed rule change between the
Commission and any person, other than
those that may be withheld from the
public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for Web site viewing and
printing in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, 100 F Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20549, on official
business days between the hours of 10
a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of such filing
also will be available for inspection and
copying at the principal office of the
Exchange. All comments received will
be posted without change; the
Commission does not edit personal
identifying information from
submissions. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. All submissions
should refer to File Number SR–
NYSEArca–2010–110 and should be
submitted on or before January 5, 2011.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.22
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-63493; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2010-110]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca Inc.; Notice of Filing
of Proposed Rule Change To List and Trade Shares of the Teucrium
Natural Gas Fund Under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200
December 9, 2010.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) \1\ of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (the ``Act'') \2\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\3\ notice is hereby
given that, on December 3, 2010, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the ``Exchange'' or
``NYSE Arca'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I and II
below, which Items have been prepared by the self-regulatory
organization. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 15 U.S.C. 78a.
\3\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to list and trade shares of the Teucrium
Natural Gas Fund under NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200. The text of the
proposed rule change is available at the Exchange, the Commission's
Public Reference Room, and https://www.nyse.com.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization
included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared
summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most
significant parts of such statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and the
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
1. Purpose
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200, Commentary .02 permits the trading
of Trust Issued Receipts (``TIRs'') either by listing or pursuant to
unlisted trading privileges (``UTP'').\4\ The Exchange proposes to list
and trade shares (``Shares'') of the Teucrium Natural Gas Fund
(``Fund'') pursuant to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200.
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\4\ Commentary .02 to NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200 applies to
TIRs that invest in ``Financial Instruments''. The term ``Financial
Instruments'', as defined in Commentary .02(b)(4) to NYSE Arca
Equities Rule 8.200, means any combination of investments, including
cash; securities; options on securities and indices; futures
contracts; options on futures contracts; forward contracts; equity
caps, collars and floors; and swap agreements.
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The Exchange notes that the Commission has previously approved the
listing and trading of other issues of Trust Issued Receipts on the
American Stock Exchange LLC,\5\ trading on NYSE Arca pursuant to
unlisted trading privileges (``UTP''),\6\ and listing on NYSE Arca.\7\
Among these is the Teucrium Corn Fund, a series of the Teucrium
Commodity Trust (``Trust'').\8\ In addition, the Commission has
approved other exchange-traded fund-like products linked to the
performance of underlying commodities.\9\
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\5\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 58161 (July
15, 2008), 73 FR 42380 (July 21, 2008) (SR-Amex-2008-39).
\6\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 58163 (July
15, 2008), 73 FR 42391 (July 21, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-2008-73).
\7\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 58457
(September 3, 2008), 73 FR 52711 (September 10, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-
2008-91).
\8\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 62213 (June 3,
2010), 75 FR 32828 (June 9, 2010) (SR-NYSEArca-2010-22) (order
approving listing on the Exchange of Teucrium Corn Fund).
\9\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 57456 (March
7, 2008), 73 FR 13599 (March 13, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-2007-91) (order
granting accelerated approval for NYSE Arca listing the iShares GS
Commodity Trusts); 59781 (April 17, 2009), 74 FR 18771 (April 24,
2009) (SR-NYSEArca-2009-28) (order granting accelerated approval for
NYSE Arca listing the ETFS Silver Trust); 59895 (May 8, 2009), 74 FR
22993 (May 15, 2009) (SR-NYSEArca-2009-40) (order granting
accelerated approval for NYSE Arca listing the ETFS Gold Trust);
61219 (December 22, 2009), 74 FR 68886 (December 29, 2009) (order
approving listing on NYSE Arca of the ETFS Platinum Trust).
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The Shares represent beneficial ownership interests in the Fund, as
described in the Registration Statement.\10\ The Fund is a commodity
pool that is a series of the Trust, a Delaware statutory trust. The
Fund is managed and controlled by Teucrium Trading, LLC (``Sponsor'').
The Sponsor is a Delaware limited liability company that is registered
as a commodity pool operator (``CPO'') with the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (``CFTC'') and is a member of the National Futures
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\10\ See Amendment No. 1 to registration statement on Form S-1
for Teucrium Commodity Trust, dated September 7, 2010 (File No. 333-
167593) relating to the Teucrium Natural Gas Fund (``Registration
Statement''). The discussion herein relating to the Trust and the
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Teucrium Natural Gas Fund
According to the Fund's Registration Statement, the investment
objective of the Fund is to have the daily changes in percentage terms
of the Shares' net asset value (``NAV'') reflect the daily changes in
percentage terms of a weighted average of the following: the nearest to
spot month March, April, October and November Henry Hub Natural Gas
Futures Contracts (``Natural Gas Futures Contracts'') traded on the
NYMEX, weighted 25% equally in each contract month, less the Fund's
expenses. (This weighted average of the four referenced Natural Gas
Futures Contracts is referred to herein as the ``Gas Benchmark,'' and
the four Natural Gas Futures Contracts that at any given time make up
the Gas Benchmark are referred to herein as the ``Gas Benchmark
Component Futures Contracts.'').\11\
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\11\ Natural gas futures volume on NYMEX for 2009 and 2010
(through October 29, 2010) was 47,864,639 contracts and 52,490,180
contracts, respectively. As of October 29, 2010, NYMEX open interest
for natural gas futures was 794,741 contracts, and open interest for
near month futures was 47,313 contracts. The contract price was
$40,380 ($4.038 per MMBtu and 10,000 MMBtu per contract). The
approximate value of all outstanding contracts was $32.1 billion.
The position limits for all months is 12,000 contracts and the total
value of contracts if position limits were reached would be
approximately $484.56 million (based on the $40,380 contract price).
As of October 29, 2010, open interest in natural gas swaps cleared
on the NYMEX was approximately 2,618,092 contracts, with an
approximate value of $26.4 billion ($4.038 per MMBtu and 2,500 MMBtu
per contract). Natural gas futures are also traded on ICE and the
European Energy Exchange.
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The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing
under normal market conditions in Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contracts or, in certain circumstances, in other Natural Gas Futures
Contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (``NYMEX''),
Intercontinental Exchange (``ICE''), and other foreign exchanges. In
addition, and to a limited extent, the Fund will invest in natural gas-
based swap agreements that are cleared through the ICE or its
affiliated provider of clearing services (``Cleared Natural Gas
Swaps'') to the extent permitted and appropriate in light of the
liquidity in the Cleared Natural Gas Swap market. Once position limits
in Natural Gas Futures Contracts are applicable, the Fund may also
invest first in Cleared Natural Gas Swaps to the extent permitted by
the position limits applicable to Cleared Natural Gas Swaps and
appropriate in light of the liquidity in the Cleared Natural Gas Swaps
market, and then in contracts and instruments such as cash-settled
options on Natural Gas Futures Contracts and forward contracts, swaps
other than Cleared Natural Gas Swaps, and other over-the-counter
transactions that are based on the price of natural gas and Natural Gas
Futures Contracts (collectively, ``Other Natural Gas Interests'' and
together with Natural Gas Futures Contracts and Cleared Natural Gas
Swaps, ``Natural Gas Interests''). The circumstances under which such
investments in Other Natural Gas Interests may be utilized (e.g.,
imposition of position limits or accountability limits) are discussed
below.
Natural Gas Futures Contracts traded on the NYMEX are listed for
the current year and the next five years. However, the nature of the
Gas Benchmark is such that the Fund will not hold futures contracts
beyond approximately the first 14 months of listed Natural Gas Futures
Contracts.
It is the intent of the Sponsor to never hold a Gas Benchmark
Component Futures Contract to spot. For example, in terms of the Gas
Benchmark, in January of a given year, the Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contracts will be the contracts expiring in March (the first-
to-expire Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contract), April (the second-
to-expire Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contract), October (the
third-to-expire Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contract), and November
(the fourth-to-expire Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contract).
Because the next-to-expire Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contract
(the March contract) will become spot on the third-to-last trading day
in January, the Sponsor will ``roll'' or change that contract prior to
the third-to-last trading day in January for a position in the same
month (March) of the following year, never holding any futures contract
to spot.
According to the Registration Statement, the Fund seeks to achieve
its investment objective primarily by investing in Natural Gas
Interests such that daily changes in the Fund's NAV will be expected to
closely track the changes in the Gas Benchmark. The Fund's positions in
Natural Gas Interests will be changed or ``rolled'' on a regular basis
in order to track the changing nature of the Gas Benchmark. For
example, four times a year in the month in which a Gas Benchmark
Component Futures Contract is set to become the first-to-expire-natural
[sic] Natural Gas Futures Contract traded on NYMEX (commonly called the
``spot'' contract), the first-to-expire Gas Benchmark Component
Contract will become the next-to-expire (spot) Natural Gas Futures
Contract and will no longer be a Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contract, and the Fund's investments will have to be changed
accordingly. In order that the Fund's trading does not cause unwanted
market movements and to make it more difficult for third parties to
profit by trading based on such expected market movements, the Fund's
investments typically will not be rolled entirely on that day, but will
typically be rolled over a period of several days.
Consistent with achieving the Fund's investment objective of
closely tracking the Gas Benchmark, the Sponsor may for certain reasons
cause the Fund to enter into or hold Natural Gas Futures Contracts
other than the Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contracts, Cleared
Natural Gas Swaps and/or Other Natural Gas Interests. For example,
certain Cleared Natural Gas Swaps have standardized terms similar to,
and are priced by reference to, a corresponding Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contract. Additionally, Other Natural Gas Interests that do not
have standardized terms and are not exchange-traded can generally be
structured as the parties to the Natural Gas Interest contract desire.
Therefore, the Fund might enter into multiple Other Natural Gas
Interests, including Cleared Natural Gas Swaps, intended to exactly
replicate the performance of each of the Gas Benchmark Component
Futures Contracts, or a single Other Natural Gas Interest designed to
replicate the performance of the Gas Benchmark as a whole. According to
the Registration Statement, assuming that there is no default by a
counterparty to
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an Other Natural Gas Interest, the performance of the Other Natural Gas
Interest will necessarily correlate exactly with the performance of the
Gas Benchmark or the applicable Gas Benchmark Component Futures
Contract. The Fund might also enter into or hold Natural Gas Interests
other than Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contracts to facilitate
effective trading, consistent with the discussion of the Fund's
``roll'' strategy in the preceding paragraph. In addition, the Fund
might enter into or hold Natural Gas Interests that would be expected
to alleviate overall deviation between the Fund's performance and that
of the Gas Benchmark that may result from certain market and trading
inefficiencies or other reasons.
The Fund invests in Natural Gas Interests to the fullest extent
possible without being leveraged or unable to satisfy its expected
current or potential margin or collateral obligations with respect to
its investments in Natural Gas Interests.\12\ After fulfilling such
margin and collateral requirements, the Fund will invest the remainder
of its proceeds from the sale of baskets in Treasury Securities or cash
equivalents, and/or hold such assets in cash (generally in interest-
bearing accounts). Therefore, the focus of the Sponsor in managing the
Fund is investing in Natural Gas Interests and in Treasury Securities,
cash and/or cash equivalents. The Fund will earn interest income from
the Treasury Securities and/or cash equivalents that it purchases and
on the cash it holds through the Fund's Custodian.
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\12\ The Sponsor represents that the Fund will invest in Natural
Gas Interests in a manner consistent with the Fund's investment
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The Sponsor endeavors to place the Fund's trades in Natural Gas
Interests and otherwise manage the Fund's investments so that the
Fund's average daily tracking error against the Gas Benchmark will be
less than 10 percent over any period of 30 trading days. More
specifically, the Sponsor will endeavor to manage the Fund so that A
will be within plus/minus 10 percent of B, where A is the average daily
change in the Fund's NAV for any period of 30 successive valuation
days, i.e., any trading day as of which the Fund calculates its NAV,
and B is the average daily change in the Gas Benchmark over the same
period.
The Sponsor employs a ``neutral'' investment strategy intended to
track the changes in the Gas Benchmark regardless of whether the Gas
Benchmark goes up or down. The Fund's ``neutral'' investment strategy
is designed to permit investors generally to purchase and sell the
Fund's Shares for the purpose of investing indirectly in the natural
gas market in a cost-effective manner. Such investors may include
participants in the natural gas market and other industries seeking to
hedge the risk of losses in their natural gas-related transactions, as
well as investors seeking exposure to the natural gas market. The
Sponsor does not intend to operate the Fund in a fashion such that its
per share NAV will equal, in dollar terms, the spot price of British
Thermal Units (``MMBtu'') of natural gas or the price of any particular
Natural Gas Futures Contract.
According to the Registration Statement, the current accountability
level for investments at any one time in Natural Gas Futures Contracts
is 12,000 in any one month. While this is not a fixed ceiling, it is a
threshold above which the NYMEX may exercise scrutiny and control over
an investor, including limiting an investor to holding no more than
12,000 Natural Gas Futures Contracts.
Cleared Natural Gas Swaps are subject to accountability levels that
are substantially identical to, but measured separately from, the
accountability levels on Natural Gas Futures Contracts. Accountability
levels are imposed by ICE of 48,000 contracts for all months (12,000
NYMEX NG contract equivalents); and 24,000 (6,000 NYMEX NG contract
equivalents) for any one month. Exemptions may be obtained from these
accountability levels for bona fide hedging, risk management and spread
positions.
In addition to accountability levels, the NYMEX and ICE may impose
position limits on contracts held in the last few days of trading in
the near month contract to expire. It is unlikely that the Fund will be
subject to such position limits because of the Fund's investment
strategy to ``roll'' from the near month contract to expire to the same
month of the following year during the period beginning two weeks from
the expiration of the contract. The Fund, however, does not believe the
current position limits imposed by the NYMEX and ICE will have any
impact on the Fund.\13\
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\13\ As stated in the Fund's Registration Statement, on July 21,
2010, ``The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act'' (``Dodd-Frank Act'') was signed into law. This new law
contains broad changes to the financial services industry including
provisions changing the regulation of commodity interests. Such
changes include the requirement that position limits on energy-based
commodity futures contracts be established; new registration,
recordkeeping, capital and margin requirements for ``swap dealers''
and ``major swap participants''; the forced use of clearinghouse
mechanisms for most over-the-counter transactions; and the
aggregation, for purposes of position limits, of all positions in
energy futures held by a single entity and its affiliates, whether
such positions exist on U.S. futures exchanges, non-U.S. futures
exchanges, or in over-the-counter contracts. The CFTC has announced
that in accord with the significant amendments introduced to the
Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (``CEA'') (7 U.S.C. 1) by the Dodd-
Frank Act, the CFTC plans to issue a notice of rulemaking proposing
position limits for regulated exempt commodity contracts, including
energy commodity contracts, as directed by the CEA. See Federal
Speculative Position Limits for Referenced Energy Contracts and
Associated Regulations, 75 FR 50950 (August 18, 2010).
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The exchanges may also set price fluctuation limits on futures
contracts. The Natural Gas Futures Contracts price fluctuation limit
establishes the maximum amount that the price of futures contracts may
vary either up or down from the previous day's settlement price or for
the price at which the limit was last imposed. When a price fluctuation
limit is in effect for a particular futures contract, no trades may be
made at a price beyond that limit.\14\
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\14\ For example, the NYMEX imposes a $3.00 per MMBtu ($30,000
per contract) price fluctuation limit for Natural Gas Futures
Contracts. This limit is initially based off of the previous NYMEX
trading day's settlement price. If any Natural Gas Futures Contract
is traded, bid or offered at the limit for five minutes, trading is
halted for five minutes. When trading resumes it begins at the point
where the limit was imposed and the limit is reset to be $3.00 per
MMBtu in either direction of that point. If another halt were
triggered, the market would continue to be expanded by $3.00 per
MMBtu in either direction after each successive five-minute trading
halt. There is not a maximum price fluctuation limit during any one
trading session.
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The Fund does not intend to limit the size of the offering and will
attempt to expose substantially all of its proceeds to the natural gas
market utilizing Natural Gas Interests. If the Fund encounters position
limits, accountability levels, or price fluctuation limits for Natural
Gas Futures Contracts on the NYMEX or Cleared Natural Gas Swaps on the
ICE, it may then, if permitted under applicable regulatory
requirements, purchase Natural Gas Interests, including Natural Gas
Futures Contracts listed on foreign exchanges. However, the Natural Gas
Futures Contracts available on such foreign exchanges may have
different underlying sizes, deliveries, and prices. The Natural Gas
Futures Contracts available on such foreign exchanges may be subject to
their own position limits and accountability levels. In any case,
notwithstanding the potential availability of these instruments in
certain circumstances, position limits could force the Fund to limit
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number of Creation Baskets (as defined below) that it sells.
Creation and Redemption of Shares
The Fund creates and redeems Shares only in blocks called Creation
Baskets and Redemption Baskets, respectively, each consisting of 50,000
Shares for the Fund. Only Authorized Purchasers may purchase or redeem
Creation Baskets or Redemption Baskets. An Authorized Purchaser is
under no obligation to create or redeem baskets, and an Authorized
Purchaser is under no obligation to offer to the public Shares of any
baskets it does create. Baskets are generally created when there is a
demand for Shares, including, but not limited to, when the market price
per share is at (or perceived to be at) a premium to the NAV per share.
Similarly, baskets are generally redeemed when the market price per
share is at (or perceived to be at) a discount to the NAV per share.
Retail investors seeking to purchase or sell Shares on any day are
expected to effect such transactions in the secondary market, on the
NYSE Arca, at the market price per share, rather than in connection
with the creation or redemption of baskets.
The total deposit required to create each basket (``Creation Basket
Deposit'') is the amount of Treasury Securities and/or cash that is in
the same proportion to the total assets of each Fund (net of estimated
accrued but unpaid fees, expenses and other liabilities) on the
purchase order date as the number of Shares to be created under the
purchase order is in proportion to the total number of Shares
outstanding on the purchase order date. The redemption distribution
from the Fund will consist of a transfer to the redeeming Authorized
Purchaser of an amount of Treasury Securities and/or cash that is in
the same proportion to the total assets of the Fund (net of estimated
accrued but unpaid fees, expenses and other liabilities) on the date
the order to redeem is properly received as the number of Shares to be
redeemed under the redemption order is in proportion to the total
number of Shares outstanding on the date the order is received.
Purchase or redemption orders for Creation and Redemption Baskets
must be placed by 12 p.m. E.T. or the close of regular trading on the
New York Stock Exchange, whichever is earlier.
The Fund will meet the initial and continued listing requirements
applicable to Trust Issued Receipts in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 8.200
and Commentary .02 thereto. With respect to application of Rule 10A-3
\15\ under the Act, the Trust relies on the exception contained in Rule
10A-3(c)(7).\16\ A minimum of 100,000 Shares for the Fund will be
outstanding as of the start of trading on the Exchange.
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\15\ 17 CFR 240.10A-3.
\16\ 17 CFR 240.10A-3(c)(7).
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A more detailed description of Natural Gas Interests as well as
investment risks, are set forth in the Registration Statement for the
Fund. All terms relating to the Fund that are referred to, but not
defined in, this proposed rule change are defined in the Registration
Statement.
Net Asset Value
The NAV for the Fund will be calculated by the Administrator once a
day and will be disseminated daily to all market participants at the
same time.\17\ In determining the value of Natural Gas Futures
Contracts, the Administrator will use the NYMEX closing price (usually
determined as of 2:30 p.m. E.T.). The value of Cleared Natural Gas
Swaps and over-the-counter Natural Gas Interests will be determined
based on the value of the commodity or futures contract underlying such
Natural Gas Interest, except that a fair value may be determined if the
Sponsor believes that the Fund is subject to significant credit risk
relating to the counterparty to such Natural Gas Interest.
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\17\ The NAV will be calculated by taking the current market
value of the Fund's total assets and subtracting any liabilities.
Under the Funds' current operational procedures, the Administrator,
will calculate the NAV of the Fund's Shares as of the earlier of 4
p.m. Eastern Time (``E.T.'') or the close of the New York Stock
Exchange (ordinarily, 4 p.m. E.T.) each day. NYSE Arca will
calculate an approximate net asset value every 15 seconds throughout
each day that the Fund's Shares are traded on the NYSE Arca for as
long as NYMEX's main pricing mechanism is open.
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Treasury Securities held by the Fund will be valued by the
Administrator using values received from recognized third-party vendors
and dealer quotes. NAV will include any unrealized profit or loss on
open Natural Gas Interests and any other credit or debit accruing to
the Fund but unpaid or not received by the Fund.
The Exchange also will disseminate on a daily basis via the
Consolidated Tape Association (``CTA'') information with respect to
recent NAV, and shares outstanding. The Exchange will also make
available on its Web site daily trading volume of the Shares, closing
prices of such Shares, and the corresponding NAV.
Availability of Information Regarding the Shares
The Web site for the Fund (https://www.teucriumnaturalgasfund.com)
and/or the Exchange, which are publicly accessible at no charge, will
contain the following information: (a) The current NAV per share daily
and the prior business day's NAV and the reported closing price; (b)
the midpoint of the bid-ask price in relation to the NAV as of the time
the NAV is calculated (the ``Bid-Ask Price''); (c) calculation of the
premium or discount of such price against such NAV; (d) the bid-ask
price of Shares determined using the highest bid and lowest offer as of
the time of calculation of the NAV; (e) data in chart form displaying
the frequency distribution of discounts and premiums of the Bid-Ask
Price against the NAV, within appropriate ranges for each of the four
(4) previous calendar quarters; (f) the prospectus; and (g) other
applicable quantitative information. The Fund will also disseminate its
holdings on a daily basis on the Fund's Web site.
The Gas Benchmark will be disseminated by one or more major market
data vendors every 15 seconds during the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session
of 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. E.T. Quotation and last-sale information
regarding the Shares will be disseminated through the facilities of the
CTA. In addition, the Exchange will provide a hyperlink on its Web site
at https://www.nyse.com to the Fund's Web site, which will display all
intraday and closing Gas Benchmark levels, the intraday Indicative
Trust Value (see below), and NAV.
The daily settlement prices for the Natural Gas Futures Contracts
held by the Fund are publicly available on the Web site of the NYMEX.
In addition, various data vendors and news publications publish futures
prices and data. The Exchange represents that quotation and last sale
information for the Natural Gas Futures Contracts are widely
disseminated through a variety of major market data vendors worldwide,
including Bloomberg and Reuters. In addition, the Exchange further
represents that complete real-time data for the Natural Gas Futures
Contracts is available by subscription from Reuters and Bloomberg. The
NYMEX and ICE also provide delayed futures information on current and
past trading sessions and market news free of charge on their Web
sites. The specific contract specifications for the futures contracts
are also available at the NYMEX and ICE Web sites, as well as other
financial informational sources. The spot price of natural gas also is
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available on a 24-hour basis from major market data vendors. Price and
volume information for cleared swaps is available from major market
data vendors and on the NYMEX Web site.
The Fund will provide Web site disclosure of portfolio holdings
daily and will include, as applicable, the names, quantities, prices
and market values of Financial Instruments held by the Fund and the
characteristics of such instruments and cash equivalents, and amount of
cash held in the portfolio of the Fund. This Web site disclosure of the
portfolio composition of the Fund will occur at the same time as the
disclosure by the Sponsor of the portfolio composition to Authorized
Purchasers so that all market participants are provided portfolio
composition information at the same time. Therefore, the same portfolio
information will be provided on the public Web site as well as in
electronic files provided to Authorized Purchasers. Accordingly, each
investor will have access to the current portfolio composition of the
Fund through the Fund's Web site.
Dissemination of Indicative Trust Value
In addition, in order to provide updated information relating to
the Fund for use by investors and market professionals, an updated
Indicative Trust Value (``ITV'') will be calculated. The ITV is
calculated by using the prior day's closing NAV per Share of the Fund
as a base and updating that value throughout the trading day to reflect
changes in the value of the Gas Benchmark Component Futures Contracts.
As stated in the Registration Statement, changes in the value of over-
the-counter Natural Gas Interests, Treasury Securities and cash
equivalents will not be included in the calculation of the ITV. The ITV
disseminated during NYSE Arca trading hours should not be viewed as an
actual real time update of the NAV, which is calculated only once a
day.
The ITV will be disseminated on a per Share basis by one or more
major market data vendors every 15 seconds during the NYSE Arca Core
Trading Session. The normal trading hours for Natural Gas Futures
Contracts on NYMEX are 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. E.T. The ITV will not be
updated, and, therefore, a static ITV will be disseminated, between the
close of trading on NYMEX of Natural Gas Futures Contracts and the
close of the NYSE Arca Core Trading Session. The value of a Share may
be influenced by non-concurrent trading hours between NYSE Arca and the
NYMEX and ICE when the Shares are traded on NYSE Arca after normal
trading hours of Natural Gas Futures Contracts on NYMEX.
The Exchange believes that dissemination of the ITV provides
additional information regarding the Fund that is not otherwise
available to the public and is useful to professionals and investors in
connection with the related Shares trading on the Exchange or the
creation or redemption of such Shares.
Trading Rules
The Exchange deems the Shares to be equity securities, thus
rendering trading in the Shares subject to the Exchange's existing
rules governing the trading of equity securities. Shares will trade on
the NYSE Arca Marketplace from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. E.T. The Exchange has
appropriate rules to facilitate transactions in the Shares during all
trading sessions. As provided in NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.6,
Commentary .03, the minimum price variation (``MPV'') for quoting and
entry of orders in equity securities traded on the NYSE Arca
Marketplace is $0.01, with the exception of securities that are priced
less than $1.00 for which the MPV for order entry is $0.0001.
The trading of the Shares will be subject to NYSE Arca Equities
Rule 8.200, Commentary .02(e), which sets forth certain restrictions on
ETP Holders acting as registered Market Makers in Trust Issued Receipts
to facilitate surveillance. See ``Surveillance'' below for more
information.
With respect to trading halts, the Exchange may consider all
relevant factors in exercising its discretion to halt or suspend
trading in the Shares. Trading may be halted because of market
conditions or for reasons that, in the view of the Exchange, make
trading in the Shares inadvisable. These may include: (1) The extent to
which trading is not occurring in the underlying futures contracts, or
(2) whether other unusual conditions or circumstances detrimental to
the maintenance of a fair and orderly market are present. In addition,
trading in Shares will be subject to trading halts caused by
extraordinary market volatility pursuant to the Exchange's ``circuit
breaker'' rule \18\ or by the halt or suspension of trading of the
underlying futures contracts.
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The Exchange represents that the Exchange may halt trading during
the day in which the interruption to the dissemination of the ITV or
the value of the underlying futures contracts occurs. If the
interruption to the dissemination of the ITV or the value of the
underlying futures contracts persists past the trading day in which it
occurred, the Exchange will halt trading no later than the beginning of
the trading day following the interruption. In addition, if the
Exchange becomes aware that the NAV with respect to the Shares is not
disseminated to all market participants at the same time, it will halt
trading in the Shares until such time as the NAV is available to all
market participants.
Surveillance
The Exchange intends to utilize its existing surveillance
procedures applicable to derivative products, including Trust Issued
Receipts, to monitor trading in the Shares. The Exchange represents
that these procedures are adequate to properly monitor Exchange trading
of the Shares in all trading sessions and to deter and detect
violations of Exchange rules and applicable Federal securities laws.
The Exchange's current trading surveillances focus on detecting
securities trading outside their normal patterns. When such situations
are detected, surveillance analysis follows and investigations are
opened, where appropriate, to review the behavior of all relevant
parties for all relevant trading violations. The Exchange is able to
obtain information regarding trading in the Shares, the physical
commodities included in, or options, futures or options on futures on,
Shares through ETP Holders, in connection with such ETP Holders'
proprietary or customer trades through ETP Holders which they effect on
any relevant market. The Exchange can obtain market surveillance
information, including customer identity information, with respect to
transactions occurring on the NYMEX or ICE, which are members of the
Intermarket Surveillance Group (``ISG''). A list of ISG members is
available at https://www.isgportal.org. \19\
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\19\ The Exchange notes that not all Natural Gas Interests may
trade on markets that are members of ISG or with which the Exchange
has in place a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
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In addition, with respect to the Fund's futures contracts traded on
exchanges, not more than 10% of the weight of such futures contracts in
the aggregate shall consist of components whose principal trading
market is not a member of ISG or is a market with which the Exchange
does not have a comprehensive surveillance sharing agreement.
The Exchange also has a general policy prohibiting the distribution
of material, non-public information by its employees.
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Information Bulletin
Prior to the commencement of trading, the Exchange will inform its
ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin of the special characteristics
and risks associated with trading the Shares. Specifically, the
Information Bulletin will discuss the following: (1) The risks involved
in trading the Shares during the Opening and Late Trading Sessions when
an updated ITV will not be calculated or publicly disseminated; (2) the
procedures for purchases and redemptions of Shares in Creation Baskets
and Redemption Baskets (and that Shares are not individually
redeemable); (3) NYSE Arca Equities Rule 9.2(a), which imposes a duty
of due diligence on its ETP Holders to learn the essential facts
relating to every customer prior to trading the Shares; (4) how
information regarding the ITV is disseminated; (5) the requirement that
ETP Holders deliver a prospectus to investors purchasing newly issued
Shares prior to or concurrently with the confirmation of a transaction;
and (6) trading information.
In addition, the Information Bulletin will advise ETP Holders,
prior to the commencement of trading, of the prospectus delivery
requirements applicable to the Fund. The Exchange notes that investors
purchasing Shares directly from the Fund will receive a prospectus. ETP
Holders purchasing Shares from the Fund for resale to investors will
deliver a prospectus to such investors. The Information Bulletin will
also discuss any exemptive, no-action and interpretive relief granted
by the Commission from any rules under the Act.
In addition, the Information Bulletin will reference that the Fund
is subject to various fees and expenses described in the Registration
Statement. The Information Bulletin will also reference that the CFTC
has regulatory jurisdiction over the trading of Natural Gas Futures
Contracts traded on U.S. markets.
The Information Bulletin will also disclose the trading hours of
the Shares of the Fund and that the NAV for the Shares is calculated
after 4 p.m. E.T. each trading day. The Bulletin will disclose that
information about the Shares of the Fund is publicly available on the
Fund's Web site.
2. Statutory Basis
The proposed rule change is consistent with Section 6(b) of the
Act,\20\ in general, and furthers the objectives of Section
6(b)(5),\21\ in particular, in that it is designed to prevent
fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and
equitable principles of trade, to foster cooperation and coordination
with persons engaged in facilitating transactions in securities, and to
remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open
market and a national market system. The Exchange believes that the
proposed rule change will facilitate the listing and trading of an
additional type of exchange-traded product that will enhance
competition among market participants, to the benefit of investors and
the marketplace. In addition, the listing and trading criteria set
forth in NYSE Equities Rule 8.200 are intended to protect investors and
the public interest.
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\20\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
\21\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the
proposed rule change.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register or Within such longer period (i) as the Commission may
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to
which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission will:
(A) By order approve or disapprove the proposed rule change, or
(B) Institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule
change should be disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
Electronic Comments
Use the Commission's Internet comment form (https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
Send an e-mail to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include
File Number SR-NYSEArca-2010-110 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
Send paper comments in triplicate to Elizabeth M. Murphy,
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20549-1090.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSEArca-2010-110. This
file number should be included on the subject line if e-mail is used.
To help the Commission process and review your comments more
efficiently, please use only one method. The Commission will post all
comments on the Commission's Internet Web site (https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments,
all written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that
are filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating
to the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person,
other than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance
with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site
viewing and printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of such filing also will be
available for inspection and copying at the principal office of the
Exchange. All comments received will be posted without change; the
Commission does not edit personal identifying information from
submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make
available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number SR-
NYSEArca-2010-110 and should be submitted on or before January 5, 2011.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\22\
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\22\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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