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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

Warsaw Stock Exchange Derivatives Market In May 2013

Date 05/06/2013

  • The volume of trading in all derivatives was 875.0 thousand instruments in May 2013.
  • The number of open interest was 254.5 thousand at the end of May 2013.

WIG20 futures

  • The volume of trading in WIG20 futures was 541.0 thousand contracts in May 2013;
  • The number of open interest in WIG20 futures was 117.4 thousand contracts at the end of May 2013.

Options

  • The volume of trading in WIG20 options was 78.7 thousand options in May 2013;
  • The number of open interest was 63.7 thousand options at the end of May 2013.

Single-stock futures

  • The volume of trading in single-stock futures was 51.4 thousand contracts in May 2013;
  • The number of open interest in single-stock futures was 13.5 thousand contracts at the end of May 2013;
  • The most traded single-stock futures in May were:

No.  Underlying                            Trading volume (#) in May 2013

  1. PKO BP SA                          15 704
  2. KGHM S.A.                           13 100
  3. PKN ORLEN SA                  9 741     
  4. PZU SA                                 2 888
  5. GRUPA LOTOS SA              2 307

Currency futures

  • The volume of trading in currency futures was 199.1 thousand contracts in May 2013*;
  • The most traded currency futures in May 2013 were USD/PLN futures. The volume of trading in USD/PLN futures was 176.3 thousand contracts, representing 88.6% of the volume of trading in all currency futures;
  • The number of open interest in currency futures was 47.9 thousand contracts at the end of May 2013.

For more statistics, see Table 1 and Figures 1 and 2 below.

*All figures concerning trade in derivatives include the change in the standard specification of currency futures contracts as of 1 May 2012 whereby the size of such contracts was divided by 10.

Table 1 Volume of trading (including block trades):

  • in May 2013;
  • in June 2012 – May 2013;
  • number of open interest (NOI) at the end of May 2013.

 

INSTRUMENT

 

 

VOLUME OF TRADING

NOI

(#)

(#)

MAY

 JAN - MAY 2013

JAN - MAY 2012

CHANGE

LAST 12 MONTHS JUN'12-MAY'13

2012

CHANGE

END OF MAY

2013

2012

CHANGE

(%)

(%)

2013

2012

CHANGE

(%)

 

 

 

(%)

WIG20 FUTURES

540 967

931 075

-41,90%

3 266 206

4 037 508

-19,10%

8 305 738

9 077 040

-8,50%

117 379

110 341

6,38%

mWIG40 FUTURES

3 204

1 196

167,89%

12 936

6 381

102,73%

20 603

14 048

46,66%

849

241

252,28%

SINGLE STOCK FUTURES

51 406

44 105

16,55%

313 241

229 479

36,50%

624 092

540 330

15,50%

13 544

14 683

-7,76%

CURRENCY FUTURES

199 074

116 667

70,63%

1 099 183

186 988

487,84%

1 873 130

960 935

94,93%

47 922

23 914

100,39%

WIG20 OPTIONS

78 710

56 160

40,15%

317 348

232 414

36,54%

800 298

715 364

11,87%

63 713

49 482

28,76%

INDEX PARTICIPATION UNITS

1 635

3 019

-45,84%

3 810

11 085

-65,63%

21 335

28 610

-25,43%

11 082

13 505

-17,94%

TOTAL

874 996

1 152 222

-24,06%

5 012 724

4 598 855

6,57%

11 645 196

11 336 327

2,72%

254 489

212 166

19,95%

 

*The statistics of currency futures contracts include the change of the standard specification of currency futures as of 1 May 2012 whereby the size of such contracts was divided by 10.

Figure 1 Annual volume of trading (including block trades) in all derivative instruments listed on the WSE in 1998 – May 2013 (million instruments).

WSE_Fig1_05Jun13

Figure 2 Total number of open interest in all derivative instruments at year-end and at the end of May 2013 (thousand instruments).

WSE_Fig2_05Jun13