ISE Reports Monthly Volume for November 2008

by International Securities Exchange 01 Dec 14:41

NEW YORK, December 1, 2008 – The International Securities Exchange (ISE) today reported that in November 2008, its options exchange traded an average daily volume of 3.4 million contracts. The ISE Stock Exchange traded an average daily volume of 135.6 million shares in the same period.

Average daily trading volume for all options contracts decreased 20.0% to 3.4 million contracts in November as compared to 4.3 million contracts during the same period in 2007. Total options volume for the month decreased 27.6% to 65.2 million contracts from 90.1 million contracts in the same year-ago period.

On a year-to-date basis, average daily trading volume of all options increased 28.0% to 4.1 million contracts traded as compared to 3.2 million contracts traded in the prior year. Total year-to-date options volume through November 2008 increased 28.0% to 949.1 million contracts from 741.6 million contracts in the same period last yea