OCC April 2020 Total Volume Up 42.9 Percent from a Year Ago
CHICAGO (May 1, 2020) – OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that April 2020 total cleared contract volume was 551,538,080 contracts, up 42.9 percent from April 2019. OCC’s year-to-date average daily total cleared contract volume is 27,865,203 contracts.
Options: Total exchange-listed options cleared contract volume was 548,883,225, up 44.3 percent from 380,420,404 in April 2019. Equity options volume was 515,812,617 contracts, up 49.6 percent from April 2019. This includes ETF option cleared contract volume of 238,710,718, a 91.9 percent increase compared to April 2019. Index options volume was 33,070,608, a seven percent decrease from April 2019.
Futures: Futures cleared contract volume was 2,654,855, a 52.1 percent decrease from April 2019. OCC’s year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is 325,834 contracts.
Securities Lending: The average daily loan value at OCC in April 2020 was $72,649,346,808 a 4.02 percent increase compared to April 2019. Securities lending CCP activity increased by 2.51 percent in new loans from April 2019 with 111,877 transactions last month.
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April 2020 Total Contract Volume |
April 2019 Total Contract Volume |
April Total Contract % Change vs 2019 |
YTD Avg Daily Contract 2020 |
YTD Avg Daily Contract 2019 |
% Change vs 2019 |
|
Equity Options |
515,812,617 |
344,847,772 |
49.6% |
25,136,665 |
17,098,135 |
47.0% |
|
Index Options |
33,070,608 |
35,572,632 |
-7.0% |
2,402,704 |
1,818,555 |
32.1% |
|
Total Options |
548,883,225 |
380,420,404 |
44.3% |
27,539,369 |
18,916,690 |
45.6% |
|
Futures |
2,654,855 |
5,542,302 |
-52.1% |
325,834 |
283,660 |
14.9% |
|
Total Volume |
551,538,080 |
385,962,706 |
42.9% |
27,865,203 |
19,200,350 |
45.1% |
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