BOX Sets Trading Volume Records In July 2007, Price Improvement Also At Record Rate

The month of July 2007 proved to be the best month in Boston Options Exchange’s (“BOX”) history, witnessing new daily, weekly, and monthly volume records as follows:

• Best single day in BOX history: July 26, with 1,223,666 contracts executed. First time BOX surpasses the 1 million mark.
• Best week in BOX history: July 23 through 27, with an average daily volume of 882,400 contracts executed.
• Best month in BOX history: July, with an average daily volume of 636,550 contracts executed, which represents a 65% increase over the same period last year as well as a 45% increase on a month-to-month basis. In addition, this represented a 6.00% market share in classes traded.

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