For the second consecutive week, OneChicago is experiencing superb volume. With only 10 trading days completed in November - a non-roll month - so far, November 2004 trading volume is already 80% greater than all of November 2003. Average daily volume in November has been 13,200 contracts. Open interest has surpassed 272,000 contracts.
Each single stock futures contract is equal to 100 shares of the
underlying stock or Exchange Traded Fund (ETF).
The most popular contracts by volume so far in November have been futures on Microsoft (MSFT1C), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD1C), Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL1C), Amgen Inc. (AMGN1C) and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY1C).