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Active Kansas City Board of Trade trading volume during the month of September has put the exchange on track to break annual volume records within the next month.
Trading volume continues to post large gains over 2010 trading volume, a year in which new annual volume records were set for the exchange as a whole and the Hard Red Winter Wheat futures contract. Total exchange trading volume is running 31.5 percent ahead of last year at this time, with HRW wheat futures volume running 28.9 percent ahead and wheat options volume running 153.4 percent ahead.
Trading volume is only 223,060 contracts shy of the 2010 exchange annual volume record and 289,094 contracts shy of the 2010 Hard Red Winter wheat contract annual volume record.
A total of 418,435 HRW wheat futures contracts were traded in September, second only in that calendar month to the September 2010 volume of 453,084 contracts.
Exchange volume for September of 440,459 contracts was second only in that calendar month to September 2010 volume of 470,522 contracts.
Wheat options volume of 22,024 contracts was a gain of 50.8 percent over last month’s volume and 26.3 percent over last September.
The Kansas City Board of Trade is a for-profit corporation organized under the laws of Delaware. The KCBT, founded in 1856, is the world's largest futures market for hard red winter wheat. Daily quotes, market commentary, historical data and charting services are available on our website at www.kcbt.com.
VOLUME AND OPEN INTEREST SUMMARY
(in contracts)
|
Volume
|
Volume
|
%
|
Volume
|
%
|
Year-to-date
|
Year-to-date
|
%
|
|
| CONTRACT |
Sep 2011
|
Sep 2010
|
Change
|
Aug 2011
|
Change
|
2011 Volume
|
2010 Volume
|
Change
|
| Wheat |
418,435
|
453,084
|
-7.6%
|
665,415
|
-37.1%
|
5,260,748
|
4,079,741
|
28.9%
|
| Wheat Options |
22,024
|
17,438
|
26.3%
|
14,607
|
50.8%
|
214,066
|
84,488
|
153.4%
|
| Total Exchange |
440,459
|
470,522
|
-6.4%
|
680,022
|
-35.2%
|
5,474,814
|
4,164,229
|
31.5%
|
|
|
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Open
|
Open
|
Open
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|
Interest
|
Interest
|
%
|
Interest
|
%
|
||||
|
9/30/2011
|
9/30/2010
|
Change
|
8/31/2011
|
Change
|
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| Wheat |
157,612
|
212,163
|
-25.7%
|
160,033
|
-1.5%
|
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| Wheat Options |
25,291
|
27,437
|
-7.8%
|
18,573
|
36.2%
|
|||
| Total Exchange |
182,903
|
239,600
|
-23.7%
|
178,606
|
2.4%
|
