Media Contact: Mary Chung
ELX Futures, L.P.
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ELX FUTURES REPORTS RECORD TOTAL VOLUME TRADING DAY
New York, February 5, 2010 – ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX Futures) announced today it has set a record total volume trading day for the combined five U.S. Treasury futures products. At approximately 1:40 pm (EST), ELX Futures traded over 77,000 contracts, surpassing the previous trading record volume day on October 30th, 2009 with 76,462 contracts traded.
Neal Wolkoff, Chief Executive Officer of ELX Futures, said, “We are pleased to report record trading volumes today in our Treasury products. This is a remarkable accomplishment and shows the great strides that we have made since our launch. We expect to continue to build on our volume figures to achieve new records in the months ahead.”
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