- Block volume in the first seven months of 2012 surpassed more than 2.5 million contracts, exceeding all blocks activity in 2011
- July 2012 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) were up 55% from June 2012
- Open interest steadily increasing in 2012, up 28% as compared to December 2011
OneChicago, an equity finance exchange, today announced that July 2012 volume of 369,694 was up 219% percent year-over-year compared with July 2011.
July 2012 highlights include:
- 352,479 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. July 2012 EFPs and blocks activity represented $2.1 billion in notional value.
- 45% of July 2012 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk from the security futures.
- 87,920 of July 2012 futures valued at more than $558 million were taken to delivery, emphasizing the use of single stock futures as an equity finance product.
- Open interest stood at 449,284 contracts on the equity finance exchange at the end of July 2012.
