CME Trade is Booming
CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its May 2023 market statistics, showing average daily volume (ADV) increased 3% to 25 million contracts during the month, the highest May ADV in company history. Market statistics are available in greater detail at https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.
Highest-ever May ADV of 25M contracts
Double-digit volume increases in interest rates, energy, agricultural and metals, as well as many individual products
SOFR futures and options continue ADV growth
May 2023 ADV across asset classes includes:
Interest Rate ADV of 13.9 million contracts
Equity Index ADV of 6.0 million contracts
Options ADV of 4.9 million contracts
Energy ADV of 2.0 million contracts
Agricultural ADV of 1.5 million contracts
Foreign Exchange ADV of 825,000 contracts
Metals ADV of 650,000 contracts
Additional May 2023 product highlights compared to May 2022 include:
Interest Rate ADV increased 20% Record U.S. Treasury futures open interest of 17,856,235 contracts on May 23 SOFR futures ADV increased 126% to 3.4 million contracts SOFR options ADV increased 935% to 1.8 million contracts 30 Day Fed Funds futures ADV increased 112% to 544,000 contracts
Options ADV increased 29% Interest Rate options ADV increased to 50% to 2.9 million contracts Agricultural options ADV increased 24% to 342,000 contracts Energy options ADV increased 33% to 282,000 contracts Metals options ADV increased 39% to 85,000 contracts
Energy ADV increased 12% Natural Gas options ADV increased 32% to 136,000 contracts
Agricultural ADV increased 38% Record Soybean Oil options ADV of 22,633 contracts Soybean Oil futures ADV increased 78% to 150,000 contracts KC HRW Wheat futures ADV increased 108% to 68,000 contracts
Metals ADV increased 30% Aluminum futures ADV increased 120% to 4,500 contracts
Micro Products ADV Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV of 2.1 million contracts represented 34% of overall Equity Index ADV, Micro WTI Crude Oil futures accounted for 5.2% of overall Energy ADV, Micro Ether futures accounted for 0.2% of overall Equity Index ADV and Micro Bitcoin futures accounted for 0.2% of overall Equity Index ADV
BrokerTec U.S. Repo average daily notional value (ADNV) increased 8% to $292B
About CME Group
As the world's leading 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.
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