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OneChicago Reports Record Volume For June 2003

Date 01/07/2003

OneChicago, LLC today announced that it traded 218,730 contracts in June, which is more than double the 101,689 contracts traded in May and an Exchange monthly record. June included a record-high daily volume of 101,087 June 5.

Open interest stood at 108,787 contracts June 30 after reaching 172,919 prior to June expiration. Average daily trading volume was 10,416 contracts.

OneChicago Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William J. Rainer said, "We are very pleased with the quarter-end monthly volume as well as the healthy trend in open interest."

The top five security futures products by volume in June were: Amgen Inc. (AMG) with 10,208 contracts traded, DIAMONDS® (DIA) 9,441, Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) 8,158, Dell (DELL) 6,904 and Nokia Corp. (NOK) 6,821. Each contract is equivalent to 100 shares of the underlying stock or exchange-traded fund.

The Exchange has a total of 106 products: 15 futures on the Dow Jones MicroSector Indexessm as well as 91 single stock futures, including futures on the DIAMONDS Trust.

OneChicago is a joint venture of the Chicago Board Options Exchange® (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

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