Open interest stood at 130,152 contracts July 31. Average daily trading volume was 5,603 contracts.
The top five security futures products by volume in July were DIAMONDS® (DIA1C) with 19,212 contracts traded, Amgen Inc. (AMGN1C) 11,428, eBay Inc. (EBAY1C) 10,628, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT1C) 4,856 and Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT1C) 4,677. Each contract is equivalent to 100 shares of the underlying stock or exchange-traded fund.
The Exchange has a total of 106 products: 91 single stock futures, including futures on the DIAMONDS Trust, and 15 futures on the Dow Jones MicroSector IndexesSM.
OneChicago also is pleased to announce that this morning the one-millionth contract was traded since the Exchange's Nov. 8, 2002, launch.
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.
Click here to view the July 2003 OneChicago Volume Report.
