Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.54 billion contracts in the month of June, down 5% from the previous month but up 9.3% from June 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first half of the year was 14.89 billion contracts, up 19.7% from the first half of 2017. Total open interest at the end of June was 851.5 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 | 564,150,602 | 361,380,247 | 925,530,849 | -3.3% | 20.9% |
| North America | 340,771,470 | 483,115,971 | 823,887,441 | -7.7% | 3.0% |
| Europe | 388,495,978 | 90,579,086 | 479,075,064 | -0.1% | -5.5% |
| Latin America | 165,147,167 | 92,063,585 | 257,210,752 | -15.3% | 66.5% |
| Other | 48,740,321 | 7,430,146 | 56,170,467 | 30.7% | -43.0% |
| Grand Total | 1,507,305,538 | 1,034,569,035 | 2,541,874,573 | -5.0% | 9.3% |
| M/M | -4.1% | -6.3% | -5.0% | ||
| Y/Y | 4.7% | 16.9% | 9.3% |
