The bull market in commodities has attracted a record volume of contracts traded on the three major U.S. futures exchanges from January - October 2007.
The CME Group had an increase of 27.60 percent from the previous year. This data includes the volume from the CBOT and the CME, as they recently merged operations under the name CME Group.
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) had an increase in volume of 27.34 percent. The NYMEX trades crude oil, natural gas, RBOB gasoline, heating oil, gold, silver, copper and platinum.
ICE Futures U.S. had an increase of 21.08 percent. ICE Futures have taken over the New York Board of Trade, which trades coffee, sugar, cocoa, orange juice, lumber and cotton.
Popular Futures Contracts
Crude oil futures had the highest volume of commodity futures contracts from January - October 2007 at 101.5 million contracts traded. That was an increase of 79 percent over the previous year.
- Corn futures traded 46.7 million contracts, up 22.6 percent.
- Soybean futures traded 26.1 million contracts, up 39.8 percent.
- Natural gas futures traded 24.9 million contracts, up 28.7 percent.
- Sugar futures traded 18.3 million contracts, up 39.3 percent.
