Miami International Holdings Reports October 2018 Trading Activity; MIAX Exchange Group Sets New Daily and Monthly Records

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Nov. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) today reported the October 2018 trading activity for its two fully electronic options exchanges – MIAX Options^® and MIAX PEARL^™ (together, the MIAX Exchange Group^™). The MIAX Exchange Group collectively executed over 47.3 million contracts in October 2018 for a combined average daily volume (ADV) of 2,057,973 contracts, representing a total U.S. equity options market share of 9.62%.

Detailed volume statistics are as follows:

Other news and achievements include:  

• MIAX Exchange Group
• New daily record for contracts executed during October 2018
• 2,783,973 contracts executed on October 11, 2018
• New monthly record for contracts executed during October 2018
• 47,333,382 contracts executed jointly on MIAX Options and MIAX PEARL
  
  
• MIAX PEARL
• New daily record for contracts executed during October 2018
• 1,693,277 contracts executed on October 11, 2018
• New monthly record for contracts executed during October 2018
• 26,638,243 contracts executed
  
  
• MIAX Options
• Received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list and trade cash-settled options on the SPIKES™ Index (Ticker: SPIKE), a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY). SPIKES was created by T3 Index, a research-driven financial indexing firm, as part of a partnership with MIH.
• For further information on SPIKES, visit: https://www.miaxoptions.com/spikes.
  
  
• MIH  
• Announced that a Notice of the Form 1 Application for its newest options exchange, MIAX Emerald, was published in the Federal Register by the SEC following MIH's formal application submission. MIAX Emerald is expected to join the MIAX Exchange Group in Q1 2019, pending SEC approval.   
• Announced that five petitions for review of the patents asserted in a complaint filed by Nasdaq et al. against MIAX were granted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The PTAB has now granted all five of the MIAX petitions that it has reviewed to date, finding that it is more likely than not that the claims of these five patents are unpatentable under current law. One final petition for review remains pending before the PTAB. 

For further information regarding the MIAX Exchange Group, please visit www.MIAXOptions.com or contact MIAX Trading Operations at TradingOperations@MIAXOptions.com.

About MIH and the MIAX Exchange Group

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is the parent holding company of Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX Options) and MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX PEARL and together with MIAX Options, the MIAX Exchange Group), two fully electronic options trading exchanges.

MIAX Options currently lists and trades options on approximately 2,800 multi-listed classes. MIAX Options' unparalleled system throughput is approximately 38 million quotes per second. The average latency for a single quote on MIAX Options is approximately 17.56 microseconds for a full round trip. At the 99^th and 99.9^th percentiles, the latency on MIAX Options is approximately 25.69 and 57.67 microseconds, respectively.

MIAX PEARL launched trading operations on February 6, 2017 and currently lists and trades options on approximately 2,800 multi-listed classes. The average latency for a single order on MIAX PEARL is approximately 24.42 microseconds for a round trip. At the 99^th and 99.9^th percentiles, the latency on MIAX PEARL is approximately 32.35 and 60.38 microseconds, respectively.

The MIAX Exchange Group has assembled a team with deep rooted experience in developing, operating and trading on options exchanges, and its trading platforms have been developed in-house and designed from the ground up for the unique functional and performance demands of derivatives trading. MIAX Options and MIAX PEARL leverage the MIAX Exchange Group's industry leading technology and infrastructure to provide their member firms with both traditional (MIAX Options) and maker-taker (MIAX PEARL) pricing structures. The MIAX Exchange Group's executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, New Jersey. The MIAX Exchange Group also maintains a Miami Operations Center in Miami, Florida, which contains the Miami Annual Meeting and Conference Center and the offices of MIAX Technologies and MIAX Global.

In addition to MIAX PEARL and MIAX Options, MIH is the parent holding company of Miami International Technologies, LLC (MIAX Technologies), MIAX Global, LLC (MIAX Global) and MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald). MIAX Technologies is MIH's technology subsidiary for the sale and/or license of the trading technology developed by the MIAX Exchange Group. MIAX Global focuses on merger, acquisition and joint venture activities of MIH. MIAX Global also provides technology and other services outside of North America, with its initial concentration being on Europe and Latin America. MIAX Emerald is MIH's third options exchange and is expected to launch in Q1 2019, pending SEC approval.  

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