OneChicago Announces Trading Volumes For January 2012 - Security Futures Volume At The Exchange In January 2012 Was Up 82% Year-Over-Year, Compared To January 2011

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 301,804 security futures contracts were traded in the month of January 2012.

January 2012 Highlights

• 262,532 EFPs and blocks were traded. January 2012 EFPs and Blocks activity represented more than $1.6 billion in notional value
• 34% of January 2012 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool which removes dividend risk from the security futures
• 100,505 January 2012 futures valued at more than $540 million were taken to delivery, emphasizing the use of single stock futures as an equity finance product
• Open interest stood at 379,950 contracts on the equity finance exchange at the end of January 2012.