The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that trading volume reached a new all-time high for the second consecutive day.The 9,998,529 contracts reported traded on Thursday, September 18 was the busiest single trading day in CBOE's 35-year history, surpassing the 9,745,622 contracts traded on Wednesday, September 17.
The week of September 15 through 19 is poised to stand as the busiest trading week in CBOE history.The 8,529,348 contracts traded at the Exchange on Tuesday, September 16 rank as the fourth busiest single trading day, while the 6,734,257 contracts traded on Monday, September 15 stand as the sixteenth busiest day in CBOE history.With one trading day still left this week, volume for the first four days has already totaled more than 34.8 million contracts.The previous record for weekly trading volume at the Exchange was the 36,355,230 contracts during the week of July 14 through 18, 2008.
