CME has announced that trading volume exceeded 7.5 million contracts on Wednesday, June 1, surpassing the previous CME record of 7.0 million contracts traded set on Friday, April 15.
Also, the CME Globex electronic trading platform set a new single-day record with 5.1 million contracts trading, overtaking the prior record of 4.9 million contracts traded on Friday, April 15.
CME also set a one-day open interest record of 33.6 positions, breaking the previous mark of 33.4 million positions set on March 10. For the second consecutive day, CME Euro FX futures hit a new record with 209,765 contracts traded on CME Globex, up from the 206,465 contracts traded on Tuesday, May 31. Total CME Euro FX volume reached a new trading high of 233,181 contracts. This represents notional value of $32 billion and $36 billion respectively. New open interest records were also achieved yesterday in CME’s new Euro FX and Japanese yen options contracts. Open interest in the Yen options was 8,339 positions and 6,484 for the Euro FX options.