BrokerTec Futures Exchange (BTEX), the nation's only fully-electronic financial futures exchange, announced today that it set consecutive daily screen- traded volume records on Monday and Tuesday with 25,171 and 27,570 contracts traded, respectively. These are the highest daily screen traded volumes on the exchange since its launch last year on November 30, 2001. Yesterday's daily record of 27,570 contracts represents a 50% increase from the earlier record of 18,296 contracts. These important milestones follow a record month in October in which traded volume reached 210,586 contracts, breaking the previous volume record of 200,128 contracts set in June 2002.
"The expansion of our base of end users, along with increased participation from our members, has contributed to this momentum and continues to drive our mission to deliver a low-cost marketplace for financial futures," stated Hank Mlynarski, President of BTEX.
