CBOE Holdings reported total trading volume in January for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange and C2 Options Exchange and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange was 103.0 million contracts, with an average daily volume (ADV) of 5.4 million contracts, increases of 14 percent and 32 percent, respectively, from December 2015.
When compared to January 2015's 107.2 million total options and futures contracts, total volume for January 2016 decreased 4 percent. ADV during January 2016 slightly increased by 1 percent over January 2015's ADV of 5.4 million contracts.
Average daily trading volume in the U.S. of 125 million shares versus 190 million shares in the fourth quarter of 2014. POSIT average daily U.S. volume was 49 million shares compared to 90 million shares in the fourth quarter of 2014. Total average daily U.S. volume traded through POSIT Alert was 8 million shares, compared to 16 million in the fourth quarter of 2014.
CBOE Futures Exchange reported that January average daily volume (ADV) was up 19 percent from January 2015 and 32 percent higher than in December 2015. Exchangewide total volume also rose in January, up 13 percent compared with January 2015 and up 14 percent from December 2015.
VIX Futures: Total January volume in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index was 5.2 million contracts, up 13 percent from January 2015, and up 14 percent from December 2015. January VIX futures' ADV was 271,994 contracts, up 19 percent from a year ago and 32 percent from the previous month.
MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, announced total monthly trading volume for January 2016 of $93.9 billion, consisting of $55.1 billion in U.S. high-grade volume, $34.1 billion in other credit volume, and $4.8 billion in liquid products volume.
Last month saw 76.0 million contracts across Nasdaq's US equities derivatives concern, which was the exact same figure in December 2015. But it is down 16.5% from January 2015. On the bright side, Nasdaqs US Fixed income volume (in $billion ) yielded $2,061 for January 2016. This is a sharp increase of 22.6% from $1,681 in December 2015
