The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has announced that August trading volume at CBOE was 41,245,104 contracts, setting a new CBOE all-time trading record for total monthly volume, surpassing the previous record of 40,713,355 contract traded in April 2005.
The 41.2 million contracts traded in August 2005 was 53% higher than the 26,894,775 contracts traded in August 2004. Additionally, CBOE’s August volume in index options was up 56% over August 2004, and the 17,789,760 contracts traded set a new all-time record for total monthly index option volume, besting the previous high of 17,118,799 contracts from April 2005.