- U.S. Treasury ADV up 15% from last August
- Metals ADV grew 48%
CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, reported its second-highest August average daily volume (ADV) on record at 29.7 million contracts, an increase of 6% from August 2025. Market statistics are available in greater detail at https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.
August 2026 ADV across asset classes includes:
- Interest Rate ADV of 16.7 million contracts
- Equity Index ADV of 6.8 million contracts
- Energy ADV of 2.3 million contracts
- Agricultural ADV of 2.2 million contracts
- Metals ADV of 1 million contracts
- Foreign Exchange ADV of 730,000 contracts
- Cryptocurrency ADV of 175,000 contracts ($12 billion notional)
Additional August 2026 product highlights compared to August 2025:
- Interest Rate ADV increased 3%
- U.S Treasury futures and options ADV increased 15% to 11.8 million contracts
- Record Ultra U.S. Treasury Bond futures ADV of 791,000 contracts
- 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 20% to 3.1 million contracts
- 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 25% to 1.9 million contracts
- 30-Year U.S. Treasury Bond futures ADV increased 37% to 852,000 contracts
- U.S Treasury futures and options ADV increased 15% to 11.8 million contracts
- Equity Index ADV increased 7%
- Micro E-Mini Nasdaq-100 futures ADV increased 78% to 2.4 million contracts
- Energy ADV increased 3%
- Micro WTI Crude Oil futures ADV increased 189% to 152,000 contracts
- Agricultural ADV increased 12%
- Record Chicago SRW Wheat futures ADV of 216,000 contracts
- Record KC HRW Wheat futures ADV of 109,000 contracts
- Corn futures ADV increased 36% to 602,000 contracts
- Metals ADV increased 48%
- Micro Gold futures ADV increased 81% to 345,000 contracts
- Micro Silver futures ADV increased 286% to 63,000 contracts
- International ADV increased 10% to 8.6 million contracts, with EMEA ADV up 9% to 6.3 million contracts and APAC ADV up 12% to 1.9 million contracts
- Micro Products ADV
- Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV of 3.5 million contracts represented 51% of overall Equity Index ADV, Micro Energy futures accounted for 7% of overall Energy ADV and Micro Metals futures accounted for 52% of overall Metals ADV
- BrokerTec overall average daily notional value (ADNV) increased 16% to $1.059 trillion
- U.S. Repo ADNV increased 3% to $390 billion
- European Repo ADNV increased 27% to €356 billion
- U.S Treasury ADNV increased 2% to $84 billion
- Customer average collateral balances to meet performance bond requirements for rolling 3-months ending July 2026 were $147 billion for cash collateral and $166 billion for non-cash collateral
Source: CME
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