OneChicago Announces June 2014 Trading Volume Up 63% Compared To June 2013 - Year-To-Date Volume Outpacing Record Breaking Year Of 2013 By 10% - Average June Block Trade Size Was 680 (68.000 Share Equivalent)

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced its June 2014 volume of 1,269,074, a 63% increase year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,500 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.   

June 2014 highlights include:

• OCX.Weekly products with 1 day delivery cycle were launched on June 20.  The OCX.Weekly product lists each day of the week, expiring one week later.  Critically, they settle to stock on expiration +1, in contrast to our monthly expirations which settles to stock on expiration +3.
• Open interest increased 8% year-over-year to 633,251 contracts on the equity finance exchange at close-of-market, June 30, 2014.
• 1,254,954 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. June 2014 EFP and block activity represented $6.7 billion in notional value.
• 56% of June 2014 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk for customers carrying equity delta exposure through derivatives.