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Boston Options Exchange Group Price Improvement Activity Increases In February

Date 02/03/2012

In the month of February, price improved contracts on BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) averaged 345,744 per day, which represented a 5% increase over the same period last year.  Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via BOX’s price improvement auction (“PIP”) averaged $185,040 per day, while total savings to investors this month were $3.7 MM.  With this, BOX has saved investors over $377 MM since its inception in 2004.  Overall average daily trading volume on BOX in the month of February was 655,526 contracts, which represented a 29% increase over the same period last year.

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