Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.56 billion contracts in the month of March, up 4.6% from the previous month and up 10.7% from March 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first three months of the year was 7.367 billion contracts, up 23.4% from the first three months of 2017. Total open interest at the end of March was 854.1 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 | |
| North America | 388,335,016 | 529,394,451 | 917,729,467 | -11.5% | 11.4% |
| Asia-Pacific | 546,241,743 | 327,666,507 | 873,908,250 | 21.0% | 17.7% |
| Europe | 381,743,668 | 97,425,530 | 479,169,198 | 7.6% | -7.3% |
| Latin America | 135,146,237 | 98,130,027 | 233,276,264 | 13.8% | 34.6% |
| Other | 47,570,820 | 8,021,180 | 55,592,000 | 49.5% | -1.6% |
| Grand Total | 1,499,037,484 | 1,060,637,695 | 2,559,675,179 | 4.6% | 10.7% |
| M/M | 13.7% | -6.0% | 4.6% | ||
| Y/Y | 6.5% | 17.2% | 10.7% |
