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BOX’s Average Price Improvement Remains At Near-Record Level, ‘Make or Take’ Is Expanded

Date 07/11/2007

In the month of October, price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via the Boston Options Exchange’s (“BOX”) price improvement auction (‘PIP’*) averaged $3.92 per contract, just slightly shy of the all-time record set last August. An average of 64,403 contracts per day received price improvement during the month. This represented savings to investors of $5.8 million. With this amount, BOX has reached $153 million in savings to investors since inception.

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