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OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Declined 13% in February

March 02, 2015
Chicago -

OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume in February was 306,531,839 contracts, a 13 percent decrease from the February 2014 volume of 350,507,077 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is down 9 percent from 2014 with 17,049,163 contracts.

Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 302,527,974 contracts in February, a 12 percent decrease from February 2014. Equity options volume for the month was 275,262,981 contracts, a 10 percent decrease from February 2014. Average daily options volume this year is down 8 percent from 2014 with 16,815,203 contracts.

Futures: OCC cleared futures volume in February was 4,003,865 contracts, a 28 percent decrease from February 2014. Equity futures volume at OCC last month was 837,327 contracts, up 14 percent from February 2014. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is down 18 percent from 2014 with 233,960 contracts.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity was down 9 percent in new loans from February 2014 with 97,356 transactions last month. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 4 percent from 2014 with 203,122 new loan transactions in 2015. The average daily loan value cleared by OCC in February was $165,142,278,709.

 
Feb 2015 Total Contract Volume
Feb 2014 Total Contract Volume
Feb Total Contract % Change vs. 2014
YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2015
YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2014
Avg. Daily Contract % Change vs. 2014
Equity Options
275,262,981
307,184,466
-10.39%
15,280,815
16,470,886
-7.23%
Index Options
27,264,993
37,723,568
-27.72%
1,534,387
1,897,343
-19.13%
Total Options
302,527,974
344,908,034
-12.29%
16,815,203
18,368,229
-8.45%
Equity Futures
837,327
735,214
13.89%
35,494
33,721
5.26%
Index / Other Futures
3,166,538
4,863,829
-34.90%
198,466
250,617
-20.81%
Total Futures
4,003,865
5,599,043
-28.49%
233,960
284,338
-17.72%
Total Volume
306,531,839
350,507,077
-12.55%
17,049,163
18,652,567
-8.60%
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