The CBOE Stock Exchange, LLC (CBSX) today reported that trading volume on Thursday, August 12 was a record for any day at CBSX. More than 63.7 million shares changed hands, surpassing the previous daily record of 59.8 million shares traded on July 23, 2010.
CBSX, which posted an all-time monthly high volume in July with 598.0 million shares traded, launched in 2007 as a multi-asset trading model for traders looking to reduce transaction costs and latency related to the hedging of options and futures market-making. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and CBSX offer fully automated executions for combined option and stock trades through a single electronic platform.