Cboe Global Markets Reports September 2026 Trading Volume and Performance Highlights

Key statistics from the report include average daily trading volume (ADV) and percentage changes compared to previous periods:

- **Multi-listed options**: 15,382 thousand contracts, up 0.7% year-over-year from 15,273 thousand contracts in September 2025, and up 3.9% from August 2026.

- **Index options**: 6,422 thousand contracts, showing a significant increase of 22.3% from 5,250 thousand contracts in September 2025 and rising 11.8% from the previous month.

- **Futures**: 191 thousand contracts, reflecting a 7.6% decrease year-over-year but a 17.3% increase from August 2026.

- **U.S. Equities - On-Exchange**: 1,453 million matched shares, down 14.7% from 1,703 million in September 2025, and a slight decrease from August's 1,481 million shares.

- **U.S. Equities - Off-Exchange**: 222 million matched shares, down 7.5% from the prior year, but up 5.0% from August.

- **Canadian Equities**: 165,156 thousand matched shares, down 14.2% from 192,599 thousand in September 2025.

- **European Equities**: €11,922 million in volume, a 1.1% increase year-over-year.

- **Global FX**: $66,363 million traded, representing a 26.6% increase from September 2025.

Notably, Cboe completed the sale of Cboe Australia to TMX Group Limited on July 31, 2026, resulting in the removal of Australian Equities metrics from this report.

Quarterly highlights include:

- A quarterly multi-listed ADV of 15.3 million contracts, marking Cboe's second-best multi-list quarter.

- Monthly ADV for proprietary index options reached 6.4 million contracts, the second highest on record.

- A quarterly ADV record for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) options was reported at 4.9 million contracts.

- Records were also set for zero-days-to-expiry (0DTE) SPX options, with a quarterly ADV of 3.2 million contracts.

For the third quarter of 2026, Cboe projected the following RPC/net capture metrics:

- **Multi-Listed Options**: $0.052 per contract.

- **Index Options**: $0.952 per contract.

- **Total Options**: $0.307 per contract.

- **Futures**: $1.712 per contract.

- **U.S. Equities - Exchange**: $0.023 per 100 touched shares.

- **Global FX**: $2.916 per million dollars traded.

Cboe noted that these metrics are subject to change.

With a long history of market innovation, Cboe has established itself as a key player in equity and index derivatives, originally launching the world's first listed options exchange in 1973. The company currently operates a variety of trading and investment solutions for customers worldwide.