Boston Options Exchange Celebrates Six Month Anniversary With Record Trading Volume On QQQs

Today was the six month anniversary of the opening of trading on BOX. BOX initially listed six options classes on the morning of Friday, February 6, 2004; a total of 4,433 contracts were traded that day. Six months later, BOX lists 248 options classes and is averaging roughly 100,000 contracts per day.

37,215 QQQs contracts were traded today on BOX, a new volume record for trading on a single class in a single session. The volume included a PIP for 5,000 contracts and four PIPs for 1,000 contracts each.