The International Securities Exchange (ISE) today reported that in February 2009, its options exchange traded an average daily volume of 3.8 million contracts.
Average daily trading volume for all options contracts increased 4.1% to 3.8 million contracts in February as compared to 3.7 million contracts during the same period in 2008. Total options volume for the month decreased 1.1% to 72.5 million contracts from 73.3 million contracts in the same year-ago period.
On a year-to-date basis, average daily trading volume of all options decreased 12.4% to 3.7 million contracts traded as compared to 4.3 million contracts traded in the prior year. Total year-to-date options volume through February 2009 decreased 16.7% to 145.7 million contracts from 174.9 million contracts in the same period last year.
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