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- First quarter volume increased 49%, year-over-year, to more than 1.2 million contracts
- Blocks in March 2012 were up a strong 70% year-over-year, compared to March 2011
OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 688,098 security futures contracts were traded in the month of March 2012.
March 2012 Highlights
- 662,710 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. March 2012 EFPs and blocks activity represented more than $3.2 billion in notional value.
- 39% of March 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.
- 82,532 March 2012 futures valued at more than $477 million were taken to delivery, emphasizing the use of single stock futures as an equity finance product.
- Open interest stood at 407,212 contracts on the equity finance exchange at the end of March 2012.
