CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, experienced another record trading day for FX products on Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
Trading volume for FX futures and options combined reached 1,553,919 contracts with a notional value of $198.2 billion, surpassing the previous record set on April 28, 2010, of 1,476,662 contracts with $193.3 billion in notional value. FX options also set a record trading 174,941 contracts with $26.1 billion in notional, beating the mark set on May 4, 2010, of 159,824 contracts with notional value of $24.9 billion.
For more information about the recent FX futures and options records, visit: www.cmegroup.com/fxrecords.
To view a video of Derek Sammann, CME Group’s Managing Director of FX and Interest Rate Products, talking about the recent FX futures and options records, visit: http://cmegroup.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=67.