OneChicago, an equity finance exchange, today announced that June 2012 volume of 868,512, was up 334% percent from May 2012, and up 121% percent year-over-year compared with June 2011.
June 2012 highlights include:
- 848,441 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. June 2012 EFPs and blocks activity represented $4.0 billion in notional value.
- 43% of June 2012 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk® products. The OCX.NoDivRisk® product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk from the security futures.
- 161,476 of June 2012 futures valued at more than $804 million were taken to delivery, emphasizing the use of single stock futures as an equity finance product.
- Open interest stood at 437,025 contracts on the equity finance exchange at the end of June 2012.