Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.52 billion contracts in the month of August, up 18.6% from the previous month and up 12.4% from August 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first eight months of the year was 19.53 billion contracts, up 17.6% from the first eight months of 2017. Total open interest at the end of August was 909.8 million contracts, up 1.3% from a year ago.
The report includes statistics from three exchanges recently added to the FIA database: the International Energy Exchange, a commodity exchange in China, LedgerX, a cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., and Asia Pacific Exchange, a commodity exchange in Singapore. The report also includes statistics for the bitcoin futures contracts that began trading on the Cboe Futures Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last December.
| Futures | Options | Total | M/M | Y/Y | |
| Asia-Pacific | 631,687,807 | 380,526,263 | 1,012,214,070 | 13.5% | 19.9% |
| North America | 329,272,998 | 507,918,072 | 837,191,070 | 21.8% | 4.7% |
| Europe | 313,444,696 | 78,597,577 | 392,042,273 | 16.0% | 3.0% |
| Latin America | 156,979,201 | 83,203,025 | 240,182,226 | 39.3% | 31.1% |
| Other | 26,900,199 | 10,615,690 | 37,515,889 | 8.6% | 10.9% |
| Grand Total | 1,458,284,901 | 1,060,860,627 | 2,519,145,528 | 18.6% | 12.4% |
| M/M | 22.2% | 14.0% | 18.6% | ||
| Y/Y | 11.9% | 13.1% | 12.4% |
