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OneChicago Announces Trading Volume For April 2017 - Weekly Futures Propel Year-To-Date Volume To 4.6 Million, An Increase Of 18% Over Prior Year

Date 01/05/2017

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), a securities finance exchange, today announced its April 2017 volume of 1,504,746 an increase of 88% year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a delta one product, on approximately 1,800 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.

April 2017 highlights include:

  • April 2017 volume was 1,504,746, up 88% year over year.
  • April 2017 saw notional value of trading increase 114% to $8.9 billion year over year.  The growth was propelled by equity finance participants utilizing spread transactions to transfer relatively expensive equity positions and replace them with delta one equivalent Security Futures
  • April 2017 saw continued use of the expiring weekly contracts to take advantage of the T+1 settlement characteristic of the Security Futures.