OneChicago reports January volume 03 February 2011Chicago Reporter: Ben Wilkie
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OneChicago has reported that 166,145 security futures contracts traded at the exchange in January 2011.
Open interest stood at 322,295 contracts at the end of January 2011.
• 104,738 January futures valued at $358 million were taken to delivery. The January open interest represented 24 per cent of all existing open interest on expiration day.
• 141,667 EFPs and blocks were traded, representing more than $540 million in notional value.
• 30 per cent of January 2011 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDiv products. The OCX.NoDiv product suite was launched in October 2010 as an equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk from the security futures.
o Customer demand has driven the listing of more than 475 OCX.NoDiv products.
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