OCC Announces Total Cleared Volume Rose 14% In October

OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume reached 393,461,669 contracts in October, representing a 14 percent increase over the October 2010 volume of 344,148,365 contracts. OCC year-to-date total contract volume is up 22 percent with 3,931,963,023 contracts in 2011.

Options: Exchange-listed options trading for the month of October was up 14 percent from the previous year. Equity options trading volume in October reached 360,081,121 contracts, a 13 percent increase over October 2010. Total options volume year-to-date through October was 3,898,045,930 contracts, 22 percent higher than at the same point last year.

Futures: Futures cleared by OCC reached 2,479,233 contracts in October, up 16 percent from October 2010. Index and other futures volume reached 2,308,363 contracts in October, a 16 percent increase over October 2010. OCC year-to-date futures volume is more than double that of 2010 with 33,917,093 contracts cleared in 2011.

Securities Lending: OCC's stock loan program, including OTC and AQS, saw new loan activity fall 7 percent compared to October 2010 with 59,034 new loan transactions in October. Despite this decline, year-to-date securities lending activity is up 23 percent from 2010 with 645,759 new loan transactions in 2011. OCC's stock loan program had an average daily notional value of 15,701,330,407.