LMEprecious is the initiative created by the London Metal Exchange (LME), the World Gold Council and a group of leading industry players to introduce exchange-traded, loco London precious metals products. LME Gold and LME Silver futures provide new opportunities for trading, price discovery and risk management creating an enhanced market structure for the precious metals community.
LMEprecious was developed in response to market demand and in close consultation with key precious metals stakeholders. Offering daily and monthly futures for both gold and silver, LMEprecious delivers greater choice for market participants, modernising the gold and silver markets to better reflect the needs of global players in precious metals markets.
LMEprecious provides a real-time five-year forward curve and intra-day reference prices for the market, which can be accessed free via LMElive.
This notice confirms the renewal of the New Market Participant Programme for the LMEprecious market (“LMEprecious NMP”).
The LMEprecious NMP is a one-year programme for trading participants who have not traded LMEprecious contracts previously. It offers eligible participants a rebate of a set percentage of trading and clearing fees across all contracts.
Rebates offered:
Application documentation
On 12 November 2019 the LME announced its intention to launch a liquidity provider programme for LMEprecious. Subject to regulatory non-objection and internal review, the LP Programme will commence on 2 December 2019 and terminate on 30 November 2020.The programme covers LME Gold and LME Silver from 8am – 6.30pm.
For full details of the LMEprecious liquidity provider programme, please refer to LME notice 19/365.
LME incentive programmes are governed by the Incentive Programme General Terms (PDF).
If you have any questions, please email.
LMEprecious fee schedules
LMEselect - gold and silver futures (per leg, per side, per lot) | ||||
Contract Type | Prompt date | Trading (USD) | Clearing1 (USD) | Total (USD) |
House2 | TOM or Spot | 0.28 | 0.12 | 0.40 |
TOM/next or Spot/T+3 carry | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.01 | |
Monthlies, all other dailies and quarterlies | 0.35 | 0.15 | 0.50 | |
Client | TOM or Spot | 0.62 | 0.28 | 0.90 |
TOM/next or Spot/T+3 carry | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.01 | |
Monthlies, all other dailies and quarterlies | 0.62 | 0.28 | 0.90 |
Inter-office market - gold and silver futures (per leg, per side, per lot) | ||||
Contract Type | Prompt date | Trading (USD) | Clearing1 (USD) | Total (USD) |
House2 | TOM or Spot | 0.21 | 0.09 | 0.30 |
TOM/next or Spot/T+3 carry | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.01 | |
Monthlies, all other dailies and quarterlies | 0.26 | 0.12 | 0.38 | |
Give up clearer post-trade function | 0.31 | 0.14 | 0.45 | |
All other post-trade functions3 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.05 | |
Client | TOM or Spot | 0.47 | 0.21 | 0.68 |
TOM/next or Spot/T+3 carry | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.01 | |
Monthlies, all other dailies and quarterlies |
0.47 | 0.21 | 0.68 | |
All other post-trade functions3 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
LMEprecious service subscriptions4 | Fees (USD) | |||
LMEprecious General Clearing Member | 20,000 | |||
LMEprecious Individual Clearing Member | 10,000 | |||
LMEprecious Non-Clearing Member | - |
1 Clearing fees are payable to LME Clear.
2 House fees apply to the house business for all LMEprecious memberships which includes LMEprecious General Clearing Memberships (GCMs), LMEprecious Individual Clearing Membership (ICMs) and LMEprecious Non-Clearing Memberships (NCMs). House fees also apply to trading in LMEprecious Contracts undertaken by affiliates of LMEprecious clearing members (GCMs and ICMs). An “affiliate” shall mean, in relation to an entity, any subsidiary or ultimate holding company of that entity and any other subsidiary of that ultimate holding company. A company is a “subsidiary” of another company, its “holding company”, if that other company holds directly or indirectly 50% more of the voting rights in the company and / or exercises effective control over it. Affiliates of LMEprecious GCMs or ICMs wishing to benefit from House fees must contact Relationship Management at rm@lme.com to demonstrate the entity meets the definition of an affiliate as set out above.
3 Including give-up executor trades, reversal / corrections, OTC bring ons and position transfers.
4 LMEprecious subscription fees have been waived until end December 2018.
Resources:
LMEprecious membership and trading the contracts:
Pricing information:
For further information please email our LMEprecious team.