The global volume numbers are once again astonishing. More than 15 billion futures and options contracts changed hands during 2007 on the 54 exchanges that report to the FIA, an increase of 28% from the previous year. Commodity products, on the other hand, had a burst of growth in 2007, helped by the greater adoption of electronic trading, the boom in energy and metals. According to futures and options traded on exchanges worldwide statistics, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) ranked No. 17, ZhengZhou Commodity Exchange ranked No. 24 and Shanghai Futures Exchange ranked No.27. DCE's Soybean meal, Corn and Soybean futures ranked No. 1, 2 and 4 respectively in the worldwide among agricultural futures and options trading.
