{"id":19982,"date":"2019-06-11T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe7a100b26c3"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:58:14","slug":"cme-bitcoin-futures-product-breaks-volume-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/cme-bitcoin-futures-product-breaks-volume-record","title":{"rendered":"CME Bitcoin Futures Product Breaks Volume Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cme-bitcoin-futures-product-breaks-volume-record.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a liquidity report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CME Group<\/a> has revealed that last month was the most successful for its bitcoin futures product since its launch in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.cmegroup.com\/bitcoinfutures\/Bitcoin_Futures_Liquidity_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> shows new highs in both average daily volume and open interest in May. Within the month, the average daily volume finished at more than 13,600 contracts, or $515 million in notional USD-traded value. This number was up 36 percent since April, and 250 percent year over year. <\/p>\n<p>Open interest, or contracts left unsettled, also reached an all-time high with 4,602 total contracts. This is an 80 percent&nbsp;increase since May 2018. <\/p>\n<p>223 trading accounts were also added in May, the most CME Group has seen since 2018. This may be a sign that institutional interest in bitcoin futures has escalated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a liquidity report, CME Group has revealed that May 2019 was the most successful month for its bitcoin futures product since its launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3453,"featured_media":19983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1169],"class_list":{"0":"post-19982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-bitcoin-futures"},"author_data":{"id":3453,"name":"Ipecdunmanintern","nicename":"ipecdunmanintern","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cme-bitcoin-futures-product-breaks-volume-record.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}