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International Securities Exchange Reports Monthly Volume For November 2003

Date 03/12/2003

The International Securities Exchange (ISE), the world's largest equity options exchange, reported an increase in November trading volume compared to the same year-ago period.

Volume Statistics

  • ISE's equity options market share was 30% in November, a 36% increase compared to 22% for the same year-ago period.

  • Overall, in its listings, ISE traded more volume in 403 of its 584 issues than any other options exchange.

  • In November, ISE traded 21.6 million equity options contracts, up 67.4% from 12.9 million equity options contracts in the same year-ago period. Average daily volume (ADV) in November was 1,138,170 contracts, up 76.1% from 646,211 contracts in the same year-ago period.

  • ISE executed more customer volume in its own listings than any other exchange in November.

Monthly Highlights

  • ISE was the lead market in November for options on 19 of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which represented 65% of the index's total weighting. ISE was the lead market for options on 219 of the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, which represented 63% of the index's total weighting. ISE was the lead market for options on 291 stocks of the 1000 stocks in the Russell 1000 Index, which represented 59% of the index's total weighting.