An update on Options activity from ISE:
- ISE and ISE Gemini combined represent 14.9% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
- ISE and ISE Gemini reported a combined ADV of 2.1 million contracts.
- Dividend trades made up 3.0% of industry volume in November 2014.
- International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. (ISE Holdings) today reported a combined average daily volume (ADV) of 2.1 million contracts in November 2014 for its two exchanges, ISE and ISE Gemini. This represents 14.9% of U.S. equity options market share.
Business highlights for the month of November include:
- On November 11, ISE ETF Ventures launched the ISE Cyber SecurityTM Index (ticker: HXR), the first index that allows investors to quickly take advantage of both event-driven news and long term economic trends in the cyber security and information technology space.
- Trading of multi-legged strategy orders on ISE through Implied Order functionality surpassed 32 million contracts since launch and accounted for 5.6% of all non-crossing, multi-legged contract volume executed on ISE during the month of November.
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