OneChicago Announces Trading Volume For January 2013 - Security Futures Volume At The Exchange In January 2013 Was Up 78% Year-Over-Year, Compared With January 2012

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced January 2013 volume of 537,739.

January 2013 highlights include: 

• 517.866 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. January 2013 EFPs and blocks activity represented $1.9 billion in notional value.

• 55% of January 2013 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk for customers carrying equity delta exposure.

• Open interest stood at 587,894 contracts on the equity finance exchange at the end of January 2013, up 55% from January 2012.