OneChicago Reports 180% Increase For April 2005 Volume

OneChicago, LLC today reported that 290,034 contracts traded at the Exchange in April, an increase of 180% over April 2004 trading volume. Average daily volume was 13,811 contracts. Year-to-date 2005 volume is 81% ahead of the same period in 2004.

Marty Doyle, President of OneChicago, said, “We continue to see increases in our trading volume. OneChicago expects to maintain this upward trend as we move ahead with our education efforts on the benefits of single stock 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 April were:

• Pfizer (PFE1C)
• Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM1C)
• Citigroup Inc. (C1C)
• JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM1C)
• US Bancorp (USB1C)

Beginning today, the Exchange listed 13 new futures on stocks bringing the total to 175 single stock futures, including futures on the DIAMONDS Trust.

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. All security futures can be traded out of either a securities or a futures account. For more information about OneChicago and its products, please access the OneChicago Web site at www.OneChicago.com.

Click here to download the April 2005 OneChicago Volume Report.