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| TIME (ET) | REPORT | PERIOD | PREVIOUS | | TUESDAY, NOV. 7 | | 6:00 AM | NFIB small-business index | Oct. | 103 | | 10:00 AM | Job openings | Sept. | 6.1 mln | | 3:00 PM | Consumer credit | Sept. | $13 bln | | THURSDAY, NOV. 9 | | 8:30 AM | Weekly jobless claims | 4-Nov | 229,000 | | 10:00 AM | Â Wholesale inventories | Sept. | 0.90% | | FRIDAY, NOV. 10 | | 10:00 AM | Consumer sentiment | Nov. | 100.7 |
  October Options Volume & Market Share Options volume rises 20% year-over-year On November 1, OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced that cleared contract volume in October was 381,467,272 contracts, a 20 percent increase from October 2016 monthly volume of 318,439,491 contracts. Average daily volume at OCC is up four percent year-to-date in 2017 with 17,070,435 contracts. OCC's stock loan program reported that securities lending activity was up 30 percent in October and 21 percent year-to-date. Exchange-listed options volume reached 371,038,407 contracts in October, a 20 percent increase from October 2016. Year-to-date average daily options volume is up three percent from 2016 with 16,512,838 contracts. Equity options volume last month was 326,672,894 contracts, a 17 percent increase from October 2016. This includes cleared ETF options volume of 125,932,951 contracts last month, up five percent from October 2016 volume of 120,263,018 contracts. Index options volume in October was up 46 percent from last year with 44,365,513 contracts.
Here are the market share details:
| Exchange | Equity | Index/Other | Exchange Total | | Â | Volume | Market Share | Volume | Market Share | Volume | Market Share | | AMEX | 27,790,929 | 8.51% | 622 | 0.00% | 27,791,551 | 7.49% | | ARCA | 30,245,091 | 9.26% | 4,709 | 0.01% | 30,249,800 | 8.15% | | BATS | 33,004,430 | 10.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 33,004,430 | 8.90% | | BOX | 7,847,543 | 2.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,847,543 | 2.12% | | C2 | 12,426,924 | 3.80% | 184,793 | 0.42% | 12,611,717 | 3.40% | | CBOE | 56,957,884 | 17.44% | 43,834,913 | 98.80% | 100,792,797 | 27.17% | | EDGX | 4,758,079 | 1.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,758,079 | 1.28% | | GEM | 15,863,798 | 4.86% | 17,707 | 0.04% | 15,881,505 | 4.28% | | ISE | 28,087,879 | 8.60% | 88,125 | 0.20% | 28,176,004 | 7.59% | | MCRY | 582,248 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 582,248 | 0.16% | | MIAX | 14,541,275 | 4.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 14,541,275 | 3.92% | | MPRL | 6,119,221 | 1.87% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,119,221 | 1.65% | | NOBO | 2,127,314 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,127,314 | 0.57% | | NSDQ | 28,011,913 | 8.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 28,011,913 | 7.55% | | PHLX | 58,308,366 | 17.85% | 234,644 | 0.53% | 58,543,010 | 15.78% | | OCC Totals | 326,672,894 | 100.00% | 44,365,513 | 100.00% | 371,038,407 | 100.00% |
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