In the month of December, price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via the Boston Options Exchange’s (“BOX”) price improvement auction (‘PIP’*) averaged $3.23 per contract. An average of 89,842 contracts per day received price improvement during the month. This represented savings to investors of $5.8 million. With this amount, BOX surpassed $100 million in savings to investors since inception. On a yearly basis, average price improvement per contract for 2006 set a new record high at $3.09.
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* Patent application pending for BOX Price Improvement Process auction