CME Group reports 19.2 million contracts in January

Options ADV reached 3.3 million contracts up by 65% MoM and Energy ADV was 2.2 million contracts, with a 11% MoM increase compared to previous month.

Agricultural ADV for the company was 1.7 million contracts, up by 30.8% MoM. Foreign Exchange ADV registered 781,000 contracts and Metals ADV of 719,000 contracts.

Additional highlights from January include:

• Record ADV of 189,000 in Micro E-mini Russell 2000 futures
• Micro E-mini Equity Index futures ADV of 2.3M. Micro E-mini futures and options represented 41% of overall Equity Index ADV during January 2020
• Record Bitcoin futures ADV of 17,500 contracts
• Record SOFR futures ADV of 98,000 contracts, including a single-day open interest record of 726,000 contracts on Jan. 27
• Ultra 10-Year Treasury Note futures ADV grew 49% from January 2020, including a single-day open interest record of 1.14 million contracts on Jan. 29
• BrokerTec European Repo average daily notional volume (ADNV) grew 8% from January 2020
• EBS Spot FX ADNV grew 2% from January 2020

Earlier in January, CME Group announced four new Japanese electricity futures contracts and two new LNG futures contracts will be available for trading on 8 February, 2021.