OneChicago Equity Futures Volume Jumps Again Year-Over-Year - Volume Up 49% Month-Over-Month Driven By Managed Futures Community Diversifying Holdings Using Single Stock Futures - Volume Of 6,963,257 Million In The First Nine Months Of 2013, An Increase Of 64% As Compared To The Same Period Last Year

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced September 2013 volume of 1,264,283.

 “It is a truism in the markets that volume begets volume. Our year over year volume trends have caught the attention of not only commodity traders looking for synthetic access to the equity markets without any dividend risk but also to equity participants looking to reduce balance sheet prior to Basel III implementation.” said David Downey, CEO of OneChicago.

September 2013 highlights include: 

• Open interest stood at 669,479 contracts on the equity finance exchange at close-of-market, September 30, 2013, up 36% year-over-year.

• Year-to-date volume, as of September represents a record for the exchange, insofar that the volume of 6.9 million has surpassed all of 2012.

• 1,224,885 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. September 2013 EFPs and blocks activity represented $5.6 billion in notional value.

• 59% of September 2013 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.