The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that trading volume in S&P 500 Index options (SPX) today, Friday, February 17th set a new single-day record with 982,337 contracts reported. The previous record for cleared volume in SPX options is 922,876 contracts, set during last month's expiration, on Friday, January 20, 2006. Average daily volume in SPX options in January was 355,534 contracts. Open interest in SPX options was over 7 million contracts at the start of trading on Friday morning.
Total reported volume at CBOE on Friday was 3,606,586 contracts-- the fifth busiest day in CBOE's history. Exchange-wide open interest stood at 169,979,742 contracts at today's open.
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