OneChicago Announces September 2014 Trading Volume Increase of 7% Year-Over-Year

- Third Quarter 2014 Trading Volume Increases 21% as Compared with Third Quarter 2013

- Average September Block Trade Size was 755 (75,500 share equivalent)

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Oct 01, 2014, 01:30 ET

CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced its September 2014 volume of 1,357,848, a 7% increase 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.

September 2014 highlights include:

Year-to-date volume through September 30, 2014, was 7,952,933 up 14% compared to the first nine months of 2013.
Open interest increased 3% year-over-year to 678,148 contracts on the equity finance exchange at close-of-market, September 30, 2014.
1,347,696 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. September 2014 EFP and block activity represented $6.6 billion in notional value.
59% of September 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 09/2014
Type	09/2014 Avg Daily Volume	09/2014 Total Volume	Previous Year Monthly Volume	% Change	YTD Total Volume	Month End Open Interest
ETF	15,481	325,107	297,698	9%	2,213,443	132,636
SSF	49,178	1,032,741	966,585	7%	5,739,490	545,512
Exchange Total	64,659	1,357,848	1,264,283	7%	7,952,933	678,148

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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