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  • OneChicago Announces Trading Volumes For March 2012

    Date 02/04/2012

    • First quarter volume increased 49%, year-over-year, to more than 1.2 million contracts
    • Blocks in March 2012 were up a strong 70% year-over-year, compared to March 2011

  • BOX Options Exchange Price Improvement Activity Increases In March

    Date 02/04/2012

    In the month of March, price improved contracts on BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) averaged 310,495 per day, which represented a 12% increase over the same period last year.  Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via BOX’s price improvement auction (“PIP”) averaged $145,529 per day, while total savings to investors this month were $3.2 MM.  With this, BOX has saved investors over $380 MM since its inception in 2004.  Overall average daily trading volume on BOX in the month of March was 636,391 contracts, which represented a 47% increase over the same period last year. 

  • OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Declined 10% In March While Securities Lending Volume Rose 18%

    Date 02/04/2012

    OCC announced that cleared contract volume reached 379,763,970 contracts in March, representing a 10 percent decrease from the March 2011 volume of 421,466,054 contracts. OCC ended the first quarter with total volume reaching 1,068,689,268 contracts, exceeding 1 billion contracts in the first quarter for the second time in history.

  • ISE Reports Business Activity For March 2012

    Date 02/04/2012

    • ISE was the second largest equity options exchange in March with market share of 18.3%, excluding dividend trades.
    • Dividend trades made up 7.8% of industry volume in March 2012.

  • MGEX Reports Open Interest Growth - March Futures And Options Trading Volume

    Date 02/04/2012

    MGEX, a Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization, today announced month over month open interest growth of eight percent in March. Total Exchange volume for Hard Red Spring Wheat (HRSW) futures and options contracts was 81,091 contracts traded in March. Volume of HRSW futures accounted for 80,154 contracts traded while options trading totaled 937.