On Friday, the International Securities Exchange (ISE) reported average daily January volume of 2.8 million contracts. This represented a 3.1% increase as compared to January 2012.
Total options volume for the month was 58.3 million contracts, an 8.3% rise from the previous January.
ISE was the second largest U.S. equity options exchange in January with its 18.2%* market share (*this does?not include dividend trade volume in market share statistics).?
January business highlights for the exchange included the following:
- ISE was the second largest equity options exchange in January with market share of 18.2%, excluding dividend trades.
- Dividend trades made up 3.0% of industry volume in January 2013.
- On January 30, 2013, ISE announced its new product development group will now be called?ISE ETF Ventures. The new name reflects the group’s evolving focus and expanded capabilities in the ETF business.
- For January, implied order functionality accounted for 7.0% of all non-crossing, multi-legged contract volume executed on ISE.
Total Options Volume (Equity, ETF, Index and FX Options)?(000s)?
January ISE Average Daily Volume (2013) 2,775.1 vs. (2012) 2,691.5 (+3.1%)?
ISE Total Volume (2013) 58,276.1 vs (2012) 53,830.7 (+8.3%)
Equity and ETF Options Volume Statistics (000s)
January ISE Average Daily Volume (2013) 2,743.4 vs. (2012) 2,670.9 (+2.7%)
ISE Total Volume (2013) 57,612.1 vs. (2012) 53,417.5 (+7.9%)
Market Share (2013) 18.2% vs. (2012) 18.7% (-0.5%)
Index Options Volume Statistics (000s)
January ISE Average Daily Volume (2013) 31.4 vs. (2012) 20.4 (+54.3%)
ISE Total Volume (2013) 660.3 vs. (2012) 407.5 (+62.0%)
ISE FX Options? Volume Statistics (000s)
January ISE Average Daily Volume (2013) 0.2 vs. (2012) 0.3 (-33.3%)
ISE Total Volume (2013) 3.6 vs. (2012) 5.7 (-36.8%)