CBOT Gold Futures Complex Captures 50 Percent Market Share

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that its 100-percent electronically traded Gold futures complex captured a 50 percent market share in daily volume of listed Gold futures traded in North America for the first time on June 23.

The CBOT’s Gold complex traded 27,700 contracts in Full-sized Gold futures and 8,573 mini-sized Gold futures, for a total daily volume of 36,273 contracts. Month-to-date, the CBOT Gold complex accounts for 44 percent of listed Gold futures traded in North America.

Robert Ray, CBOT Senior Vice President of Business Development, said: “Between depth of liquidity and the marketplace’s preference for speed and straight-through processing made possible by our electronic contracts, the CBOT Gold complex continues to shine. Reaching this threshold is proof that our complex is playing a greater role in metals price discovery.”

The CBOT’s Precious Metals complex consists of Full-sized (100 oz.) Gold futures, Full-sized Gold options, mini-sized (33 oz.) Gold futures, Full-sized (5,000 oz.) Silver futures, Full-sized Silver options and mini-sized (1,000 oz.) Silver futures contracts.