CME Group Averaged 17.8 Million Contracts Per Day in January 2019
CHICAGO, Feb. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, reached average daily volume (ADV) of 17.8 million contracts per day in January 2019, down 6 percent from January 2018. Open interest at the end of January was 122 million contracts, down 1 percent from January 2018 and up 5 percent from year-end 2018.
Equity Index volume averaged 3.3 million contracts per day in January 2019, up 7 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 17 percent to 1.6 million contracts
-- E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures and options ADV grew 51 percent to 530,000
contracts
-- E-mini Dow futures and options ADV rose 35 percent to 234,000 contracts
-- E-mini Russell 2000 futures and options ADV grew 29 percent to 139,000
contracts
-- E-mini S&P Select Sector Index futures and options ADV increased 53
percent to 10,000 contracts
-- S&P 500 Wednesday Weekly options ADV rose 56 percent to 4,000 contracts
Interest Rate volume averaged 9.6 million contracts per day in January 2019, down 1 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV increased 4 percent to 4.6 million
contracts, including U.S. Treasury futures ADV, up 5 percent to 3.6
million contracts, and U.S. Treasury options ADV, up 2 percent to
959,000 contracts
-- 2-year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 23 percent to 483,000
contracts
-- Fed Fund futures ADV rose 61 percent to 314,000 contracts
-- Weekly Treasury options ADV grew 21 percent to 170,000 contracts
-- Ultra 10-year U.S. Treasury Note futures and options ADV grew 1 percent
to 152,000 contracts
-- Ultra U.S. Treasury Bond futures and options ADV increased 3 percent to
135,000 contracts
-- SOFR futures ADV grew to 18,400 contracts, the highest since their May
2018 launch
Options volume averaged 4 million contracts per day in January 2019, down 12 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- Metals options ADV increased 9 percent to 62,000 contracts
Agricultural volume averaged 1.1 million contracts per day in January 2019, down 15 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- Livestock futures ADV grew 11 percent to 144,000 contracts
-- Live Cattle futures and options ADV increased 4 percent to 87,000
contracts
-- Lean Hog futures and options ADV rose 20 percent to 65,000 contracts
Energy volume averaged 2.5 million contracts per day in January 2019, down 20 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- Record WTI Houston Crude Oil futures daily volume of 2,232 contracts on
January 31
-- WTI Houston Crude Oil futures ADV grew to 1,000 contracts, the highest
since their November 2018 launch
Foreign Exchange volume averaged 838,000 contracts per day in January 2019, down 23 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- Russian ruble futures and options ADV grew 120 percent to 2,800
contracts
-- South African rand futures and options ADV rose 4 percent to 2,000
contracts
Metals volume averaged 564,000 contracts per day in January 2019, down 26 percent from January 2018. Highlights include:
-- Record Copper options ADV, up 152 percent to 2,400 contracts
-- Precious Metals options grew 7 percent to 59,000 contracts
-- Gold options ADV increased 8 percent to 51,000 contracts
-- Silver options ADV rose 2 percent to 7,700 contracts
-- Palladium futures and options increased 6 percent to 5,200 contracts
BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange trading activity highlights, in terms of average daily notional value, include:
-- European Repo average daily notional value increased 6 percent to
EUR257.6 billion
-- U.S. Repo average daily notional value increased 4 percent to $261.3
billion
-- U.S. Treasury average daily notional value decreased 1 percent to $183.5
billion
-- Spot FX average daily notional value decreased 17 percent to $87.1
billion
Footnote: To see CME Group daily over-the-counter (OTC) notional cleared volumes and open interest, monthly OTC notional cleared volumes and monthly total trade count, go to http://www.cmegroup.com/education/cme-volume-oi-records.html
MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME (ADV)
Total Exchange ADV
(in thousands)
Jan 2019 Jan 2018
Trading Days 21 21
PRODUCT LINE Jan 2019 Jan 2018 Percent Change
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Interest Rates 9,586 9,684 -1%
Equity Indexes 3,260 3,048 7%
Foreign Exchange
(FX) 838 1,093 -23%
Energy 2,491 3,108 -20%
Agricultural
Commodities 1,095 1,283 -15%
Metals 564 763 -26%
Total 17,832 18,979 -6%
VEN
UE Jan 2019 Jan 2018 Percent Change
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Open outcry 1,322 1,343 -2%
CME Globex 15,735 16,797 -6%
Privately
negotiated 775 839 -8%
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Average Rate Per Contract
(In dollars)
3-Month Period Ending
PRODUCT
LINE Nov-18 Oct-18 Sep-18 Aug-18
Interest
Rates 0.476 0.480 0.493 0.491
Equity
Indexes 0.723 0.731 0.761 0.780
Foreign
Exchange
(FX) 0.711 0.719 0.743 0.738
Energy 1.143 1.157 1.187 1.181
Agricultural
Commodities 1.248 1.244 1.258 1.269
Metals 1.394 1.374 1.379 1.398
Total 0.705 0.714 0.753 0.767
BrokerTec Fixed Income and EBS Foreign Exchange Average Daily Notional Value
(in billion USD unless otherwise stated, single count)
PRODUCT LINE Jan 2018 Jan 2019 YoY % Dec 2018 MoM %
Change Change
---
U.S.
Treasury(1) 185.2 183.5 -1% 200.8 -9%
U.S. Repo 252.0 261.3 4% 255.8 2%
European Repo
(in EUR
billions) 244.2 257.6 6% 254.5 1%
Spot FX 104.9 87.1 -17% 76.2 14%
12 Month ended January 31
PRODUCT LINE 2018 2019 % Change
U.S. Treasury 161.3 172.8 7%
U.S. Repo 232.0 239.0 3%
European Repo (in EUR
billions) 228.8 261.1 14%
Spot FX 83.7 88.9 6%
[1] Volume information includes
UST Benchmarks and Agencies.
Off-the-Run securities,
including T-Bills, are
provided pursuant to an
agreement with ICAP Securities
USA LLC.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data - empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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