An update on Options activity from ISE for April, 2016
- ISE’s options exchanges combined to represent 16.1% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
- ISE’s options exchanges reported a combined ADV of 2.3 million contracts.
- Dividend trades made up 0.7% of industry volume in April 2016.
Business highlights for the month of April include:
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On April 25, ISE ETF Ventures announced that it earned the “Most Proactive Exchange for ETF Options/Derivatives” at the 12th Annual Global ETF Awards?. This represented ISE ETF Ventures’ sixth consecutive year receiving this award.?
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Trading of multi-legged strategy orders on ISE through Implied Order functionality surpassed 48 million contracts since launch and accounted for 5.4% of all non-crossing, multi-legged contract volume executed on ISE during the month of April.?