OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume reached 360,585,699 in July, a 10 percent increase from the July 2013 volume of 328,899,421 contracts. This represents the second highest July volume on record following the July 2008 volume of 366,783,829 contracts. OCC's year-to-date cleared contract volume is up 0.26 percent from 2013 with 2,477,587,106 contracts.
Options: Exchange-listed options trading volume in July was up 9 percent from July 2013 with 355,432,350 contracts. Average daily options trading volume last month was 16,156,016 contracts, 9 percent higher than the same time last year. Year-to-date total options volume is up .06 percent from 2013 with 2,438,523,550 contracts.
Futures: OCC cleared 5,153,349 futures contracts in July, representing a 21 percent increase from July 2013. OCC's average daily cleared futures volume in July was 234,243 contracts, a 21 percent increase from July 2013. OCC's year-to-date total cleared futures volume is up 14 percent from 2013 with 39,063,556 contracts.
Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity was down 14 percent in new loans from July 2013 with 105,610 transactions last month. Year-to-date stock loan activity is down 10 percent from 2013 with 691,990 new loan transactions in 2014. The average daily loan value at OCC in July was $143,470,330,135.
| July 2014 Total Contract Volume | July 2013 Total Contract Volume | July Total Contract % Change vs. 2013 | YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2014 | YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2013 | Avg. Daily Contract % Change vs. 2013 | |
| Equity Options | 322,425,332 | 295,059,480 | 9.27% | 15,064,081 | 15,138,396 | -0.49% |
| Index Options | 33,007,018 | 29,591,723 | 11.54% | 1,638,135 | 1,553,297 | 5.46% |
| Debt Options | 0 | 0 | n/a | 0 | 1 | n/a |
| Total Options | 355,432,350 | 324,651,203 | 9.48% | 16,702,216 | 16,691,695 | 0.06% |
| Equity Futures | 811,260 | 582,681 | 39.23% | 39,511 | 34,734 | 13.75% |
| Index / Other Futures | 4,342,089 | 3,665,537 | 18.46% | 228,047 | 199,560 | 14.27% |
| Total Futures | 5,153,349 | 4,248,218 | 21.31% | 267,559 | 234,294 | 14.20% |
| Total Volume | 360,585,699 | 328,899,421 | 9.63% | 16,969,775 | 16,925,989 | 0.26% |