NQLX December 2003 Volume

NQLX LLC announced today that 72,893 contracts were traded on its market in December.

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 (QQQ^SM) and a suite of Russell iShares^SM.

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.

NQLX is a fully electronic, federally regulated exchange and a wholly owned company of Euronext.liffe. NQLX lists single stock futures and futures on broad based indices through Euronext.liffe's electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT®, the world's most advanced derivatives trading system. For more information on NQLX visit: www.nqlx.com