NYBOT cotton futures & options surpass 100,000 mark
27 Jun '07
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IntercontinentalExchange announced that on Thursday, June 14, its New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) subsidiary surpassed the 100,000 volume mark for the first time in total NYBOT Cotton No. 2 SM futures and options.
The exchange also established a second consecutive volume record in electronically traded NYBOT Cotton No. 2 futures on Thursday, June 14.
Total NYBOT Cotton futures and options volume on Thursday, June 14 was a record 104,536 contracts. NYBOT set a new daily electronic trading record in Cotton futures with 33,372 contracts, surpassing the June 13 record of 26,038 contracts.
ICE successfully introduced side-by-side trading for NYBOT's soft commodity contracts in February, including futures based on cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice and sugar.
In May, electronic trading represented 71% of soft commodity futures volume. NYBOT today introduced electronic trading for the U.S. Dollar Index (USDX) and the Russell 1000 full- and mini-sized indexes.