April Highlights Included:
- CBOT® average daily volume: 1,005,970, an increase of 6.6% from March 2001
- Total exchange month-end open interest: 5,162,850 30-Day Fed Fund futures set a daily volume record on April 18 at 43,860, and set a daily open interest record on April 30 at 95,830
- 10-Year Note options set a daily volume record on April 18 at 171,186, set a daily open interest record on April 30 at 793,052, and set monthly volume record of 1,709,554
- DJIASM futures set a daily open interest record on April 18 at 34,706
- Ten-Year Treasury Note futures were up 21.8% from April 2000 at 4,299,392, and up 16.0% year-to-date (YTD) at 18,348,043
- Ten-Year Treasury Note options were up 25.8% from March 2001 and up 45.2% from April 2000 at 1,709,554, and up 36.7% YTD at 5,584,641
- Five-Year Treasury Note futures were up 20.8% from April 2000 at 2,062,805
- Five-Year Treasury Note options were up 20.2% from March 2001 and up 15.5% from April 2000 at 440,946
- Two-Year Treasury Note futures were up 72.3% from April 2000 at 132,514, and up 98.9% YTD at 767,273
- Thirty-Day Fed Fund futures were up 167.8% from April 2000 at 299,413, and up 146.9% YTD at 1,127,167
- Wheat futures were up 8.2% from March 2001 and up 18.2% from April 2000 at 579,992
- Wheat options were up 2.5% from March 2001 and up 47.7% from April 2000 at 142,858
- Corn futures were up 14.2% from March 2001 and up 9.6% from April 2000 at 1,518,687
- Corn options were up 16.0% from April 2000 at 397,372
- Oat futures were up 66.6% from March 2001 and up 31.1% from April 2000 at 41,482
- Soybean futures were up 8.7% from March 2001 at 916,330
- Soybean Meal futures were up 3.1% from March 2001 and up 3.7% from April 2000 at 485,106
- Soybean Oil futures were up 6.4% from March 2001 and up 1.1% from April 2000 at 443,454
- Rough Rice futures were up 42.1% from March 2001 at 11,075
- CBOT®® DJIASMSM futures volume in April totaled 411,497 contracts, an increase of 28.2% from April 2000
- CBOT® DJIASM options were up 88.4% from April 2000 at 43,116
- Volume reached 3,508,953 contracts in April 2001
- April average daily volume at 175,448 contracts, up 6.6% from March 2001; average daily volume since inception on August 28, 2000, is 128,140
- U.S. Treasury Bond futures at 1,765,499 contracts, representing 38.5% of its total volume
- Ten-Year Treasury Note futures at 1,283,008, representing 29.8% of its total volume
- Five-Year Treasury Note futures at 387,016, representing 18.8% of its total volume
- Monthly volume of futures contracts electronically routed to floor brokers for filling and/or endorsing was 2,099,324, an increase of 83% from April 2000.
- Monthly volume of futures orders electronically routed to floor brokers was 401,787, an increase of 41% from April 2000. Of those orders, 126,690 were endorsed, an increase of 45% from April 2000.
- E-openoutcry.com volume was 91,939 contracts filled electronically by brokers. (E-openoutcry.com, a CBOT® Internet software program, can be used by members and member firms for sending order endorsements for headset-entered orders.)
- There are 37 member firms using CBOT® order routing technology to send orders and/or trade endorsements to 147 pit brokers using electronic order receipt devices.
- CBOT® Full membership last traded at $325,000 as of April 25, 2001
- CBOT® Associate membership last traded at $72,000 as of April 30, 2001
- CBOT® Commodity Options membership interest last traded at $19,900 as of April 30, 2001
- CBOT® IDEM membership interest last traded at $6,400 as of March 30, 2001
