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ETD Volume - April 2018

1 May 2018

Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.307 billion contracts in the month of April, down 9.9% from the previous month but up 20.5% from April 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first four months of the year was 9.674 billion contracts, up 22.7% from the first four months of 2017. Total open interest at the end of April was 865.9 million contracts, up 3.3% from a year ago.

The report includes statistics from two exchanges recently added to the FIA database: the International Energy Exchange, a commodity exchange in China, and LedgerX, a cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. 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              500,619,105          319,478,436              820,097,541 -6.2% 21.4%
North America              320,263,404          477,931,818              798,195,222 -13.0% 19.4%
Europe              367,543,824            83,742,331              451,286,155 -5.8% 16.7%
Latin America              127,850,909            74,370,385              202,221,294 -13.3% 41.3%
Other                29,114,961               6,410,637                35,525,598 -36.1% -14.4%
Grand Total          1,345,392,203          961,933,607          2,307,325,810 -9.9% 20.5%
M/M -10.2% -9.3% -9.9%    
Y/Y 22.5% 17.7% 20.5%    
  • FIA
  • ETD