CME Group Announces E-mini Nasdaq-100 Futures All-Time Daily Trading Volume Record

New single-day high surpasses prior record set over a decade ago

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Oct 12, 2018, 15:28 ET

CHICAGO, Oct. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures reached an all-time daily volume record of 1,150,475 contracts traded on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. This surpasses the previous single-day volume record of 1,149,387 contracts reached on Sept. 18, 2008.

"This milestone demonstrates how global investors are increasingly turning to CME Group's products to manage risk or take advantage of trading opportunities amid ongoing volatility in the equity markets," said Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Products and Alternative Investments. "Nasdaq-100 futures and options products allow customers to gain exposure to the 100 largest U.S. non-financial companies, while benefiting from capital efficiencies by trading alongside our industry-leading equity index products."

To date in 2018, Nasdaq-100 futures and options products have traded an average of 446,000 contracts at CME Group each day, a 59 percent increase from 2017. Average daily volume for quarterly, monthly and weekly Nasdaq-100 options on futures has nearly tripled during the past five years to more than 11,000 contracts each day in 2018.

CME Group and Nasdaq recently announced a ten-year extension of CME Group's exclusive license to offer futures and options on futures based on the Nasdaq-100 and other Nasdaq indexes, through 2029.

For more information on E-mini Nasdaq futures and options at CME Group, please visit cmegroup.com/nasdaq.

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. Around the world, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform. CME Group also operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME Clearing, which offers clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives. CME Group products and services ensure that businesses around the world can effectively manage risk and achieve growth.

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