OCC announced today that cleared contract volume in 2015 was its third-highest total ever at 4,210,542,258 contracts. This represents however a three percent decrease from 2014 volume of 4,333,019,384 contracts.
OCC ended the year with 345,836,508 cleared contracts in December, down four percent from December 2014.
Options: Exchange-listed options volume was down three percent in 2015 with 4,143,637,271 contracts. Total options volume in December was 338,822,054 contracts, down four percent from December 2014. Average daily options volume in 2015 was down three percent with 16,443,005 contracts.
Futures: OCC cleared 66,904,987 futures contracts in 2015, a one percent decrease from 2014. OCC ended the year with 7,014,454 cleared futures contracts in December, up 15 percent from December 2014. OCC’s average daily cleared futures volume was down one percent in 2015 with 265,496 contracts.
