(Source: PRNewswire)
CHICAGO, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- OneChicago, LLC today reported that 188,218 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in August 2008. YTD volume stands at 3,066,664.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020911/ONECHICAGOLOGO) Open interest stood at 313,409 contracts in August 2008.
Each single stock futures (SSF) contract is equivalent to 100 shares of the underlying stock. The top five SSF contracts by volume in August were:
Kraft Foods, Inc. KFT1C 19,627 ChevronTexaco Corp. CVX1C 13,058 The Dow Chemical Company DOW1C 11,916 Wyeth WYE1C 9,002 Apple Computer Inc. AAPL1C 8,733 About OneChicago:
The Exchange lists nearly 800 futures on single stocks and 36 Exchange Traded Funds. OneChicago is a joint venture of IB Exchange Corp., the Chicago Board Options Exchange Incorporated(R) (CBOE(R)), and CME Group. All products are electronically traded on the CBOEdirect(R) match engine and accessible through the CBOEdirect(R) and CME Globex(R) platforms. Security futures can be traded out of either securities or futures accounts.
For more information about OneChicago and its products, and to view the August 2008 Volume Report, please access the OneChicago Web site at http://www.onechicago.com/
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