During the month of March, Direct Market Access (DMA) trading at BM&FBOVESPAs derivatives market segment reached a historic record of 18,404,891 contracts traded, in 1,93,044 trades, in contrast to the records registered in the previous month of 12,537,023 contracts traded, in 1,485,032 trades.
During the same period, DMA trading via order routing with CME Groups Globex also reached a record 3,931,514 contracts traded, in 1,039,213 trades. The previous trading records were 3,246,598 contracts traded (set in October 2009) and 816,205 trades (set on February 2010).
The volumes registered by access modality in March in comparison to the previous month are as follows:
Traditional DMA 9,245,230 contracts traded, in 669,288 trades, in comparison to 5,807,581 contracts traded and 505,698 trades;
Via DMA Provider 4,646,935 contracts traded, in 91,217 trades, in comparison to 3,200,086 contracts traded and 75,421 trades;
DMA via order routing with CME Globex (CME Group’s electronic trading platform) 3,931,514 contracts traded, in 1,039,213 trades, in comparison to 3,171,892 contracts and 816,205 trades;
DMA via co-location 581,212 contracts traded, in 183,326 trades, in comparison to 357,464 contracts traded, in 87,708 trades.
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