With a significant activity in US dollar futures trading, ROFEX´s Financial Derivatives Division started August with a record trading volume of 2,021,117 contracts in just five days, that is, surpassing the daily average of 400 million dollars.
This mark is the best weekly volume record in the Exchange’s history and surpassed by 4 per cent the previous weekly record reached by the end of January 2010, with 1,938,766 contracts traded.
Meanwhile, Thursday, August 5 was the day with the biggest trading volume, as 602,772 contracts were registered, including US dollar futures, Euro futures and Rolling Forex.