Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 4.45 billion contracts in the month of November, up 11% from the previous month and up 57.1% from November 2019. This was the second highest amount recorded for any month, after March 2020’s record setting level.
On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first eleven months of the year was 42.13 billion contracts, up 33.1% from the first eleven months of 2019.
Total open interest at the end of November was 1.06 billion contracts, up 3.9% from the previous month and up 3.4% from a year ago.
Note: Changes to the data for historical contracts can be found in the tabs named Volume Revision and Correction, OI Revision and Correction, and Additions to Historical Data.
| Futures | Options | Total | M/M | Y/Y | |
| Asia-Pacific | 1,000,219,190 | 973,601,483 | 1,973,820,673 | 11.1% | 58.1% |
| North America | 366,579,889 | 733,708,941 | 1,100,288,830 | 8.6% | 38.2% |
| Latin America | 415,844,504 | 223,149,573 | 638,994,077 | 3.5% | 71.0% |
| Europe | 356,263,030 | 97,135,943 | 453,398,973 | 5.2% | 24.4% |
| Other | 273,847,724 | 6,781,731 | 280,629,455 | 66.2% | 491.3% |
| Grand Total | 2,412,754,337 | 2,034,377,671 | 4,447,132,008 | 11.0% | 57.1% |
| M/M | 19.3% | 2.5% | 11.0% | ||
| Y/Y | 53.2% | 62.1% | 57.1% |
