For the month of January, price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via the Boston Options Exchange’s (“BOX”) price improvement auction (‘PIP’*) averaged $2.60 per contract, up from $2.40 in December. An average of 41,695 contracts per day received price improvement during the month, which is 19% higher than the 34,989 registered in December. Total savings to investors this month reached $2.1M. Average daily trading volume on BOX for the month of January 2010 was 324,181 contracts, or 41% higher than December.
* Patent application pending for BOX Price Improvement Process auction