The top three security futures contracts by volume in February were:
Tickers | Stocks | Number of Contracts |
CSCO | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1,556 |
INTC | Intel Corp. | 1,350 |
IWM | iSharesSM Russell® 2000 | 1,203 |
Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 65 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ -100 Index Tracking StockSM (QQQSM) and the iSharesSM Russell® 2000 (IWM).
- Open interest was at 41,861 contracts on February 27, 2004.
- On January 26, NQLX's parent company, The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), announced plans to launch a Eurodollar futures contract. In the coming months, NQLX, working in partnership with LIFFE, will explore whether there is sufficient customer demand for this contract to be made available through NQLX, subject to the approval of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).