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According to the latest statistics from China Futures Association, the performance of the national futures market in general was appeared brisk. For China's futures market as a whole, in September, the total volume and turnover increased 149.6% and 113.29% respectively from a year ago to 85.4 million contracts, worth 3.8 trillion yuan, and was 33.46% and 8.14% upper than August respectively. The total trading volume and the turnover from January to September were 455.7 million contracts and 26.1 trillion yuan, up 46.16% and69.71% respectively from last year.
Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) achieved a trading volume of 51.03 million contracts and a turnover worth 1.69 trillion yuan, accounting for 59.74% and 44.12% in all of China's three commodity futures exchanges. The trading volume increased by 486.26% from a year ago and 84.06% than August respectively, while the turnover was 866.75% higher compared to September 2006 and increased by 99.75% from August respectively. The open interest at the end of the month was 8.1% lower than last month to 2.08 million contracts. The total trading volume and the turnover from January to September on DCE was 225.2 million contracts and 6.7 trillion yuan, 32.09% and 78.17% higher than the same period last year respectively.
