The International Securities Exchange (ISE) today reported average daily volume of 3.1 million contracts in November 2009.
Average daily trading volume for all options contracts decreased 11.0% to 3.1 million contracts in November as compared to 3.4 million contracts during the same period in 2008. Total options volume for the month decreased 6.3% to 61.1 million contracts from 65.2 million contracts in the same year-ago period.
On a year-to-date basis, average daily trading volume of all options decreased 4.7% to 3.9 million contracts traded. Total year-to-date options volume through November 2009 decreased 5.1% to 900.4 million contracts from 949.1 million contracts in the same period last year.
Total Options Volume (Equity, ETF, Index and FX
Options)
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Equity and ETF Options Volume Statistics
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Index Options Volume Statistics
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ISE FX OptionsĀ® Volume Statistics
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ISE's market share statistics continue to be negatively impacted by trading strategies that are permitted based on a non-economic rationale. These strategies include dividend trades and synthetic short interest trades. These trades temporarily inflate and distort trading volume and market share when transacted.
Monthly Highlights
- On November 6, 2009, ISE co-sponsored NYU's 2009 derivatives conference,
Derivatives 2009: Looking Towards the Future. This important conference
brought together leading academics and industry practitioners to discuss the
changing derivatives environment and the lessons learned from the financial
crisis.
- ISE traded more volume than any other options exchange in 990 of 2,215 issues in its listings.