The top five security futures contracts by volume in August were:
Tickers | Stocks | Number of Contracts |
IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | 36,102 |
QQQ | NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock | 1,651 |
EBAY | eBay Inc. | 1,053 |
KLAC | KLA-Tencor Corporation | 1,002 |
QLGC | QLogic Corporation | 842 |
Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 94 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) and a suite of Russell iShares. NQLX also has three cash-settled futures on a suite of Russell 1000 products.
- Open interest was at 47,661 contracts on August 29, 2003.
- The most active day was August 4, 2003 when 6,414 contracts traded. On that day, 5,481 of the iShares Russell 2000 traded, an IWM ETF future daily record.
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