Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) - the third largest exchange in the U.S. and the most powerful in terms of trading volume outside of New York City.

Officially, the date of foundation Chicago Stock Exchange is considered the date of March 21, 1882. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the institution was known as the Midwestern Stock Exchange, which included the New Orleans, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland exchanges in addition to the Chicago one. The original name was returned to the exchange in 1993.

Chicago Stock Exchange - a non-listed exchange

The CHX is currently the largest options trading institution in the United States. The exchange does not have its own index, as it does not conduct its own listing of companies, but provides access to issuers who have placed their stock on the NYSE, NASDAQ и AMEX. But among the minor 22 indices calculated in Chicago, there are VIX - stock volatility index, which helps to assess the degree of uncertainty among investors in the stock market.

The Chicago Stock Exchange is a pioneer in automated trading

CHX is also a joint-stock company. The relevant decision was made in 2005, when about 200 brokerage companies, which are members of the exchange, created the holding CHX Holding, Inc. Trading on the Chicago floor is done through the trading system CHX Matching System. By the way, the exchange was one of the first to switch to an automated trading system in 1982.