CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) reported that total trading volume during April for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange? (CBOE?) and C2 Options Exchange (C2) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE?) was 91.4 million contracts, a decrease of four percent versus March 2015 and a decrease of 15 percent from April 2014.???
Total options and futures average daily volume (ADV) at CBOE Holdings during April was 4.4 million contracts, an increase of one percent from March 2015 and a decrease of 15 percent from April 2014.?
CBOE Volume: April??
- CBOE’s ADV during the month was 3.9 million contracts, up one percent from March 2015 and down 16 percent from April 2014.? Exchange-wide trading volume totaled 81.1 million contracts, a decrease of four percent from the previous month and a decrease of 16 percent from a year ago.
- During April 2015, ADV in equity options rose five percent and index options rose one percent over the previous month, while ADV in exchange-traded product (ETP) options declined six percent from March 2015.???????
CBOE Market Share: April ???
- CBOE’s market share of total U.S. options industry volume was 24.7 percent in April 2015, a decrease of 0.4 of a percentage point from March 2015 and a decrease of 2.5 percentage points from April 2014.
C2 Volume: April
- C2’s April trading volume totaled 7.0 million contracts, an increase of two percent from March 2015 and an increase of six percent from April 2014.? ADV was 332,036 contracts, a seven-percent increase from March 2015 and a six-percent increase from April 2014.???????????????????????????
C2 Market Share: April
- C2 market share of total industry volume in April 2015 was 2.1 percent, up 0.1 of a percentage point from March 2015 and up 0.3 of a percentage point from April 2014.
CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) Trading Volume and Highlights: April
- April exchange-wide ADV at CFE was 161,235 contracts, a four-percent decrease from March 2015 and a 10-percent decrease from April 2014. Exchange-wide total volume during the month was 3.4 million contracts, an eight-percent decrease from the previous month and a 10-percent decrease from a year ago.???
- April ADV in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index? (VIX? Index) was 161,157 contracts, a decrease of four percent from March 2015 and a decrease of ten percent from April 2014. Total volume in VIX futures for April was 3.4 million contracts, down eight percent from the previous month and down 10 percent from a year ago.????