OneChicago Announces November 2014 Trading Volume Resulting in Record Breaking Year-to-Date Totals

- Year-to-Date 2014 Trading Volume jumps 18% as Compared to the First 11 Months of 2013

- Average November Block Trade Size was 457 (45,700 share equivalent)

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Dec 01, 2014, 02:22 ET

CHICAGO, Dec. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced its November 2014 volume of 1,121,688, an increase of 78% year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,500 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.

November 2014 highlights include:

Year-to-date volume through November 28, 2014, was 9,820,721 up 18% compared to the first eleven months of 2013.
Open interest increased 11% year-over-year to 705,542 contracts on the equity finance exchange at close-of-market, November 28, 2014.
1,117,914 blocks and EFPs were traded on OCXdelta1. November 2014 EFP and block activity represented $5.7 billion in notional value.
61% of November 2014 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk for customers carrying equity delta exposure through derivatives.

Month End Volume and Open Interest - Summary
For 11/2014
Type	11/2014 Avg Daily Volume	11/2014 Total Volume	Previous Year Monthly Volume	% Change	YTD Total Volume	Month End Open Interest
ETF	10,847	206,086	229,907	-10%	2,681,171	102,661
SSF	48,190	915,602	400,028	129%	7,139,550	602,881
Exchange Total	59,036	1,121,688	629,935	78%	9,820,721	705,542

ABOUT ONECHICAGO

OneChicago (OCX) is the only US equity finance exchange for trading single stock futures and the related EFP. Regulated by the SEC and CFTC, OCX lists approximately 2,800 products, including ADRs, ETFs and OCX.NoDivRisk™ contracts, which include the OCX.Weekly. Contracts are cleared through the centralized counterparty, "AA+"-rated OCC. Security futures, a Delta One product, are utilized for synthetic equity strategies including equity swaps, equity repos and stock loan/borrow transactions. The OneChicago OCX.NoDivRisk, Exchange Futures for Physical transaction is economically equivalent to a Securities Lending Transaction.

OCX.NoDivRisk contracts are single stock futures with dividends removed from the pricing as the future's price is adjusted down by the value of the dividend on Ex-date. For more information, please visit our Website at: http://www.OneChicago.com or contact us at 312-424-8520.

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