OneChicago January Volume Increases 343% - Twelfth Consecutive Month Of Year-Over-Year Increase - New Open Interest Record

OneChicago, LLC today reported that 822,700 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in January, 343% more than in January 2005. Average daily volume was 41,135. Open interest reached a record, standing at 1.63 million contracts on January 31.

OneChicago President Marty Doyle said, “January marks the twelfth consecutive month that we have reported a year-over-year volume increase. We are off to a great start in the New Year. We look forward to continuing our rate of growth by reaching out to new customers and expanding our menu of security futures products to include additional ETF futures.”

Each single stock futures contract is equivalent to 100 shares of the underlying stock or exchange-traded fund. The top five single stock futures contracts by volume in January were:

• Pfizer (PFE1C)
• Citigroup Inc. (C1C)
• Procter & Gamble Co. (PG1C)
• Intel Corp. (INTC1C)
• AT&T Corp. (T1C)

The Exchange lists 208 futures on single stocks, including futures on the DIAMONDS® Trust, as well as four OneChicago Select Indexes, a series of customer-designed narrow-based security index futures.

OneChicago is a joint venture of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Incorporated® (CBOE®), Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®). All products are electronically traded on the CBOEdirect® match engine and accessible through the CBOEdirect and GLOBEX® platforms. Security futures can be traded out of either securities or futures accounts. For more information about OneChicago and its products, please access the OneChicago Web site.

Click here to view the January 2006 OneChicago Volume Report.