An update on Options activity from ISE:

  • ISE’s options exchanges combined to represent 15.5% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
  • ISE’s options exchanges reported a combined ADV of 2.1 million contracts.
  • Dividend trades made up 0.5% of industry volume in May 2016.

 

Business highlights for the month of May include:

  • ISE was the host exchange for the annual Options Industry Conference, which took place from May 11 – 13 and was attended by over 425 participants.

  • Trading of multi-legged strategy orders on ISE through Implied Order functionality surpassed 49 million contracts since launch and accounted for 6.0% of all non-crossing, multi-legged contract volume executed on ISE during the month of May.