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OCC announced today that cleared contract volume in April was 339,522,257 contracts.? This is up two percent from April 2015 monthly volume of 331,552,965 contracts. Average daily volume at OCC is up five percent in 2016 with 17,123,650 contracts.
Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 331,842,870 contracts in April, a one percent increase from April 2015. Year-to-date average daily options volume is up four percent from 2015 with 16,774,405 contracts.
Equity options volume last month was 300,607,713 contracts, a slight increase of 0.09 percent from April 2015. This includes cleared ETF options volume of 124,959,215 contracts last month, a 13 percent increase over April 2015 volume of 110,418,502 contracts. Index options volume in April was up 15 percent with 31,235,157 contracts.
Futures: Cleared futures volume at OCC in April was 7,679,387 contracts, a 94 percent increase from April 2015. OCC?s year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is up 62 percent with 349,245 contracts.
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