On Tuesday, the OIC announced that 15,245,495 contracts were traded on average each day in August, a 4.17 percent increase compared to the 14,635,274 contracts in August of last year.
Total options trading for the month was 320,155,407 contracts. This is in comparison to?? last August?s volume of 321,976,044 when there was one more trading day.
Trading volume so far for 2014 stands at 2,758,678,957 contracts, slightly lower by 0.01 percent than the 2,758,963,425 contracts traded throughout the same period last year.
The average number of equity options contracts that changed hands each day this August was 13,674,353. ?
The equity options volume for August was 287,161,404 contracts. This is down 1.39 percent compared to August 2013 when 291,214,395 contracts were traded.
The total number of equity options traded so far this year is 2,486,517,289 contracts.? This is in comparison to the 2,501,420,249 contracts traded in the same period last year.