CBOT Rings In New Year With Confetti Shower - CBOT Celebrates Fifth Consecutive Annual Volume Record

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) members will once again celebrate a record-setting year on the final day of trading for 2006. In 2006, the CBOT set an all-time volume record, as the total surpassed 801 million contracts traded. The previous record, 674,651,393 contracts, was set in 2005.