Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.12 billion contracts in the month of July, down 16.4% from the previous month but up 10.2% from July 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first seven months of the year was 17.02 billion contracts, up 18.4% from the first seven months of 2017. Total open interest at the end of July was 864.7 million contracts, up 2.4% 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 | 532,384,282 | 359,310,996 | 891,695,278 | -3.7% | 16.2% |
| North America | 253,744,823 | 433,724,952 | 687,469,775 | -16.6% | 8.1% |
| Europe | 265,275,102 | 72,811,130 | 338,086,232 | -29.4% | -6.0% |
| Latin America | 113,730,345 | 58,634,179 | 172,364,524 | -33.0% | 22.4% |
| Other | 28,226,987 | 6,304,537 | 34,531,524 | -38.5% | 49.6% |
| Grand Total | 1,193,361,539 | 930,785,794 | 2,124,147,333 | -16.4% | 10.2% |
| M/M | -20.8% | -10.0% | -16.4% | ||
| Y/Y | 4.6% | 18.4% | 10.2% |
