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CBOE WINS INDEX OPTIONS LITIGATION AGAINST ISE

07.08.2010

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that the Circuit Court of Cook County has ruled in favor of CBOE...

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CBOE FIRST HALF 2010 ADV UP 7 PERCENT

07.01.2010

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today reported that average daily volume (ADV) year to date through June 2010 was 4.9 million contracts...

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CBOE FUTURES EXCHANGE, LLC EXPERIENCES NINTH CONSECUTIVE MONTH OF YEAR-OVER-YEAR VOLUME INCREASES

07.01.2010

The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) today...

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CBOE EXPANDS WEEKLY OPTIONS BY ONE DAY

06.30.2010

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that as of Thursday, July 1, all new Weekly options series listed at CBOE will begin trading on Thursdays...

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CBOE 2009 ANNUAL REPORT AVAILABLE

06.24.2010

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Options Institute Plus - Level 1 Beginner Launching 10.21.2010

The Options Institute Plus - Level 1 Beginner session combines live seminars, online courses, webcasts and chat sessions for a unique, guided learning experience developed by respected market educators. http://www.cboe.com/LearnCenter/Beg.aspx

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The Options Intensive

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Designed for sophisticated options investors, CBOE's Options Intensive seminar is presented in a "group-live" format which explores advanced concepts including spread trading strategies and implied volatility.

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Real Trading with Dan Sheridan

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Dan will be doing a special segment in this seminar to discuss our current market and appropriate strategies. Join Dan Sheridan and Peter Lusk, Jim Bittman or Marty Kearney, Instructors for CBOE's Options Institute...

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Quarterly Options on the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)

Quarterly options are designed to provide market participants with options that expire on the last trading day of each quarter to coincide with end-of-quarter accounting practices.

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Market Data Express

Market Data Express (MDX) gives users quick and easy access to more than 16 years of historical options data.

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S&P 500^® Dividend Index & CBOE Options on the DVS Index

The S&P 500 Dividend Index is designed to track the total cash dividends from the constituents of the S&P 500 Index over a specified quarterly accrual period.

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Latest on SEC Short Sale Orders

To keep options traders, customers, and CBOE Members fully informed on recent restrictions on short sale activities, CBOE has created this page which provides links to relevant SEC and CBOE information documenting the various short sale restrictions.

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CBOE Volatility Index^® (VIX^®)

VIX is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices. Since 1993, VIX has been considered by many to be the world's premier barometer of investor sentiment and market volatility.

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Flex Options/CFLEX^SM

CFLEX is CBOE's new low-cost, internet-based FLEX system. CFLEX retains the existing advantages of exchange-traded FLEX options while providing a substantial improvement in operational efficiency.

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Quarterly Options on the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)

Quarterly options are designed to provide market participants with options that expire on the last trading day of each quarter to coincide with end-of-quarter accounting practices.

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S&P 500^® Dividend Index & CBOE Options on the DVS Index

The S&P 500 Dividend Index is designed to track the total cash dividends from the constituents of the S&P 500 Index over a specified quarterly accrual period.

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CBOE S&P 500® Implied Correlation Index

Option prices reflect the risk of a stock or stock index. The level of risk conveyed by option prices is often referred to as implied volatility.

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SPX & VIX Binary Options

CBOE Binary Options are a pure and simple way to trade based on your opinion of where a market is headed over a certain period of time. They are contracts that, at expiration, pay out a pre-determined, fixed amount or nothing at all.

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DOOM(SM) Put Options

For years, sophisticated investors have used listed options as alternatives to OTC-traded credit derivatives such as credit default swaps (CDS). CBOE is now highlighting "DOOM"or "Deep Out-Of-the Money" put options.

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CBOE Volatility Index Suite

The Chicago Board Options Exchange� (CBOE�) calculates and updates the prices of a number of volatility-related indexes including those based upon Standard and Poor's, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, Russell products and more.

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