Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.307 billion contracts in the month of April, down 9.9% from the previous month but up 20.5% from April 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first four months of the year was 9.674 billion contracts, up 22.7% from the first four months of 2017. Total open interest at the end of April was 865.9 million contracts, up 3.3% from a year ago.
The report includes statistics from two exchanges recently added to the FIA database: the International Energy Exchange, a commodity exchange in China, and LedgerX, a cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. The report also includes statistics for the bitcoin futures contracts that began trading on the Cboe Futures Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last December.
| Futures | Options | Total | M/M | Y/Y | |
| Asia-Pacific | 500,619,105 | 319,478,436 | 820,097,541 | -6.2% | 21.4% |
| North America | 320,263,404 | 477,931,818 | 798,195,222 | -13.0% | 19.4% |
| Europe | 367,543,824 | 83,742,331 | 451,286,155 | -5.8% | 16.7% |
| Latin America | 127,850,909 | 74,370,385 | 202,221,294 | -13.3% | 41.3% |
| Other | 29,114,961 | 6,410,637 | 35,525,598 | -36.1% | -14.4% |
| Grand Total | 1,345,392,203 | 961,933,607 | 2,307,325,810 | -9.9% | 20.5% |
| M/M | -10.2% | -9.3% | -9.9% | ||
| Y/Y | 22.5% | 17.7% | 20.5% |
