TREE NEWS reports: China’s futures market recorded 1,189,741,520 lots in September, with turnover of 84.52 trillion yuan, up 53.9% and 18.21% year-on-year respectively on a single-side basis. For January-September, cumulative volume reached 8,384,082,146 lots and cumulative turnover 738.54 trillion yuan, up 24.2% and 34.86% year-on-year.
China Futures Market Volume Up 53.9% Year-on-Year in September
The divergence between volume growth and turnover growth implies a shift toward lower-value contracts, which matters for exchange revenue and for gauging whether the activity is speculative churn or genuine hedging demand. It also affects global venues competing for the same flows and anyone tracking Chinese commodity pricing power. Whether the volume surge keeps outpacing turnover — and which contracts drive it — is the open question.
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