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The International Securities Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ISE)
today reported that average daily trading volume for equity and index
options contracts for February 2006 increased 37.9% to 2.4 million
contracts as compared to 1.7 million contracts during the same period
in 2005. Total equity and index options volume for the month increased
37.9% to 44.8 million contracts from 32.5 million contracts in the
same year-ago period.
On a year-to-date basis, average daily trading volume of equity
and index options increased 44.0% to 2.5 million contracts traded as
compared to 1.8 million contracts traded in the prior year. Total
equity and index volume through February 2006 increased 44.0% to 98.6
million contracts from 68.5 million contracts in the same period last
year.
As was the case in prior months, we witnessed trading activity
among options market makers on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and
Pacific Exchange related to dividend trades whereby traders continued
to profit at the expense of investors who failed to exercise their
call options immediately prior to a stock going ex-dividend. If the
volume from the largest dividend trades were excluded from the data,
our market share of equity options for the month of February would
increase to 34.9% from 33.8%, an increase of 1.1 market share points.
On a year-to-date basis, our market share would increase to 34.7% from
32.9%, an increase of 1.8 market share points, when the volume from
the largest dividend trades was excluded. The exclusion of dividend
trades from total industry volume data presents a more relevant
measure of the relative trends in our business.
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Equity and Index Options Volume Statistics
Current Month Year-to-Date
% %
(000s) Feb-06 Feb-05 Change Feb-06 Feb-05 Change
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ISE Average
Daily Volume 2,356.3 1,709.2 37.9% 2,528.5 1,756.2 44.0%
ISE Total
Volume 44,770.2 32,474.5 37.9% 98,612.8 68,493.7 44.0%
Industry
Average
Daily Volume 7,525.1 5,593.7 34.5% 8,234.8 5,736.4 43.6%
Market Share 31.3% 30.6% 0.7 pts 30.7% 30.6% 0.1 pts
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ISE Market
Share:
Customer 32.4% 31.0% 1.4 pts 32.3% 30.9% 1.4 pts
ISE Market
Share: Firm 27.1% 21.8% 5.3 pts 25.4% 20.4% 5.0 pts
ISE Market
Share:
Market Maker 31.5% 32.4% (0.9) pts 30.8% 33.0% (2.2)pts
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Equity Options Volume Statistics
Current Month Year-to-Date
% %
(000s) Feb-06 Feb-05 Change Feb-06 Feb-05 Change
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ISE Average
Daily Volume 2,329.3 1,705.6 36.6% 2,498.7 1,754.3 42.4%
ISE Total
Volume 44,257.1 32,406.8 36.6% 97,448.8 68,417.7 42.4%
Industry
Average
Daily Volume 6,900.9 5,130.8 34.5% 7,587.4 5,275.5 43.8%
Market Share 33.8% 33.2% 0.5 pts 32.9% 33.3% (0.3)pts
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ISE Market
Share:
Customer 34.7% 33.3% 1.4 pts 34.4% 33.2% 1.2 pts
ISE Market
Share: Firm 30.2% 24.6% 5.6 pts 28.1% 22.9% 5.2 pts
ISE Market
Share:
Market Maker 33.9% 35.3% (1.4) pts 33.0% 35.8% (2.8)pts
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Index Options Volume Statistics
Current Month Year-to-Date
% %
(000s) Feb-06 Feb-05 Change Feb-06 Feb-05 Change
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ISE Average
Daily Volume 27.0 3.6 N/M 29.8 1.9 N/M
ISE Total
Volume 513.1 67.7 N/M 1,164.0 76.0 N/M
Industry
Average
Daily Volume 624.3 462.9 34.8% 647.5 461.0 40.5%
Market Share 4.3% 0.8% 3.5 pts 4.6% 0.4% 4.2 pts
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Monthly Highlights
-- ISE was the largest U.S. equity options exchange in February.
-- ISE set a new record for the single largest equity options
transaction at the exchange when 165,000 Microsoft October 30
calls traded at $0.40 on February 23, 2006 by one of its
Electronic Access Members (EAM).
-- ISE traded more volume in 629 of 847 issues in its listings
than any other options exchange.
ISE Background
The International Securities Exchange, the world's largest equity
options exchange, was founded on the principle that technology fosters
and infuses new efficiencies and operational innovations into
securities trading. After developing an innovative market structure
that integrated auction market principles into an advanced
screen-based trading system, ISE launched the first fully electronic
US options exchange in May 2000. ISE continually enhances its trading
systems to provide investors with the best marketplace to execute
their options orders.
For more information about ISE, its products and its technology,
visit www.iseoptions.com.
This press release contains "forward looking statements." These
statements relate to future events or our future financial
performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements to be materially different from those
contemplated by the forward looking statements. We undertake no
ongoing obligation, other than that imposed by law, to update these
statements. Factors that could affect our results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements and cause them to materially differ from
those contained in the forward looking statements can be found in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our
registration statements on Form S-1, current reports on Form 8-K and
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as amended.