On Thursday, the Options Industry Council (OIC) announced that 355,803,000 total options contracts traded in April, a 4.13 percent decline from last April when 371,147,433 contracts traded.
With one less trading day in the month, average daily volume was up 0.43 percent with 16,943,000 contracts as compared to April 2013’s 16,870,338 contracts. Year-to-date volume stood at 1,446,102,568 contracts, 5.96 percent more than April of last year when 1,364,727,666 contracts traded.
Additional volume information included the following:
- Equity options volume (options on individual stocks and ETPs) was 324,070,049 contracts, down 4.05 percent compared to last April when 337,754,380 contracts were exchanged.
- April average daily volume for equity options came in at 15,431,907 contracts, more than last year?s 15,352,472 contracts by 0.52 percent.
- Year-to-date equity options volume stood at 1,304,547,081 contracts, which is 5.49 percent greater than the 1,236,639,821 contracts traded at the same point last year.