CHICAGO, March 21,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's
leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that E-mini
S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq-100 and E-mini Russell 2000 options have
reached record volumes in 2024.
Year-to-date volume records (through March 20) include:
- E-mini S&P 500 options average daily volume (ADV) of 1.63
million contracts, up 23% year-over-year.
- E-mini Nasdaq-100 options ADV of more than 84,000 contracts, up
30% year-over-year.
- E-mini Russell 2000 options ADV of more than 15,300 contracts,
up 83% year-over-year.
"Despite lower volatility in today's equity markets, global
investors are increasingly turning to CME Group's equity options
products to express their views and manage risk," said Paul Woolman, Global Head of Equity Products at
CME Group. "Our leading suite of benchmark E-mini options allow
market participants to hedge their portfolios and pursue
opportunities around potentially market-moving events, all while
benefiting from capital efficiencies by trading alongside our other
industry-leading equity index products."
In addition, E-mini S&P 500 options blocks achieved a record
trading day of 558,000 contracts on March
15, surpassing the prior record of 235,000 contracts. E-mini
S&P 500 options blocks ADV stands at 134,000 contracts for
2024, up a record 40% year-over-year.
For more information on these products, please visit
www.cmegroup.com/equityoptions.
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range
of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals.
The company offers futures and options on futures trading through
the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and
foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it
operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing
providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board
of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of
BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The
S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC
("S&P DJI"). "S&P®", "S&P 500®", "SPY®", "SPX®", US 500
and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial
Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average
are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC.
These trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are
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S&P DJI makes no representation regarding the advisability of
investing in such products. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.
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