This set the total for the first ten months at 269 million contracts, or nearly 35% more than the 199 million traded in the same period of 2000.
At the end of October, total open interest was 66.9 million, 30.3% above the figure for September.
Equity and index futures also set new records, with the average daily trade volume for the month up 89.5% on October 2000, and the figure for the first ten months of 2001 up 56.23%. Short and long-term equity options reached new highs for both trading volumes and open interest during the month.
In fixed-income derivatives, 110,883 futures were traded, with open interest totalling 42,425 lots at month end.
Average daily trading in commodity contracts was up 119.5% from September 2001, while the year-on-year rise for the first ten months of the year was 44.17%.