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OCC announced today that cleared contract volume in July was 317,045,566 contracts.? This is down 18? percent from July 2015 volume of 385,404,937. ?Average daily volume at OCC is?is up three percent with 16,687,086 contracts in 2016.
Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 308,897,552 contracts in July, a 19 percent decrease from July 2015 volume of 379,194,963 contracts. Year-to-date average daily options volume is up two percent from 2015 with 16,297,482 contracts in 2016.
Equity options volume in July was 274,773,760 contracts, a 19 percent decrease from July 2015. This includes cleared ETF options volume of 122,362,162 contracts last month, an 11 percent decrease over July 2015 volume of 137,697,836 contracts.? Index options volume in July was down 13 percent with 34,123,792 contracts.
Futures: OCC cleared futures volume in July reached 8,148,014 contracts, a 31 percent increase from the July 2015 volume of 6,209,974 contracts. OCC?s year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is up 64 percent from 2015 with 389,604 contracts in 2016.
