The top five security futures contracts by volume in June were:
Tickers | Stocks | Number of Contracts |
IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | 47,418 |
CMV | Comverse Technology, Inc. | 9,725 |
SBC | SBC Communications Inc. | 6,658 |
VZ | Verizon Communications | 4,454 |
CMC | Comcast Corporation | 4,333 |
Each contract represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. NQLX has a total of 95 security futures products, including futures on the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) and a suite of Russell iShares. NQLX also has three cashsettled futures on a suite of Russell 1000 products.
Open interest was at 51,763 contracts on June 30, 2003. That is a 9.65% increase from May 30, 2003.
The most active day was June 5th when 16,685 contracts traded. 5,340 NQLX Exchange Traded Funds futures contracts were traded on Friday, June 27th, setting a new industry record for single day volume of ETF futures.
NQLX is a fully electronic, federally regulated exchange and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Euronext.liffe. It lists financial and security futures through Euronext.liffe's electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT®. For more information on NQLX visit: www.nqlx.com.