An update on Options activity from ISE:
- ISE and ISE Gemini combined represent 16.8% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
- ISE and ISE Gemini reported a combined ADV of 2.6 million contracts.
- Dividend trades made up 0.4% of industry volume in July 2015.
Business highlights for the month of July include:
- On July 16, ISE ETF Ventures launched the ISE Mobile Payments? Index (index ticker: IPY) and the ISE Big Data? Index (index ticker: BGD). These indexes are licensed to PureFunds? to serve as the underlying for two recently launched exchange-traded funds.
- Trading of multi-legged strategy orders on ISE through Implied Order functionality approached 39 million contracts since launch and accounted for 4.8% of all non-crossing, multi-legged contract volume executed on ISE during the month of July.