Options Industry Sets New Daily Volume Record With 39,530,495 Contracts Traded on Friday, August 5, 2011
(firmenpresse) - CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 08/08/11 -- OCC announced that a new daily options trading volume record was set on Friday, August 5, 2011 when 39,530,495 contracts were traded. This is 9.41 percent higher than the previous record of 36,132,133 contracts set on August 4, 2011.
Equity options trading also set a new record with 35,817,166 contracts, an 8.42 percent increase over the previous record of 33,036,121 contracts traded on August 4, 2011.
Total volume for the first week of August was 145,178,304 contracts, equal to 51 percent of the total volume recorded in August 2010. A total of 2,187,211 transactions took place on August 5, resulting in $16.2 billion in premium changing hands.
OCC is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC operates under the jurisdiction of both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a Registered Clearing Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Derivatives Clearing Organization. OCC now provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 15 exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial and commodity futures, security futures and securities lending transactions. More information about OCC is available at .
Jim Binder
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Angela Kotso
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