The top five security futures contracts by volume in December were:
Tickers | Stocks | Number of Contracts |
MSFT | Microsoft Corp. | 14,704 |
SBC | SBC Communications, Inc. | 8,477 |
VZ | Verizon Communications | 4,504 |
C | Citigroup, Inc. | 4,370 |
JPM | J P Morgan Chase & Co. | 4,205 |
Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 70 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ -100 Index Tracking StockSM (QQQSM) and a suite of Russell iSharesSM.
- Open interest was at 43,951 contracts on December 31, 2003.
- The most active day of the month was on December 16, when 15,263 contracts traded.
Tickers | Stocks | Number of Contracts |
IWM | Russell 2000 | 226,409 |
MSFT | Microsoft Corp. | 72,574 |
SBC | SBC Communications, Inc. | 29,736 |
- The Russell 2000 ETF future, listed exclusively on NQLX, was the most traded security future on any US market in 2003 with 226,409 contracts.
- In 2003, NQLX traded more than 850,000 contracts, equivalent to 85 million contracts.