Cleared contract volume at the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is down 12% since July 2011, and year-to-date contract volume is down 7%, although securities lending is up 19%.
The amount of cleared contracts went down year-over-year from 351,117,113 in July 2011 to 309,599,417. Total year-to-date contract totaled 2,410,587,457.
There were 539,252 new stock loan transactions in 2012, marking a 16% year-to-date increase. The average daily loan value in July was $33,573,733,743.
Volumes of exchange-traded options decreased 12% year-over-year to 306,817,994. Average daily trading volume was 14,610,380 contracts, down 16% from 17,410,909 in July 2011.
Cleared futures were down 4% year-over-year, reaching 2,781,423 in July. Index and other futures were down 13% at 2,411,729 contracts. Equity futures reached 369,694, up 219% from last year. Average daily cleared futures contracts in 2012 were 134,702.
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