Anybody know where I can find the Emini S&P daily volume? I checked the CME website and I can't find anything.
Thank you. Says that emini S&P 500 trades 1032K daily(yesterday). I'm guessing that is one million contracts. I thought they were up to 5 million contracts a day. I thought I read that a few months back.
I haven't ever seen a daily volume as high as 5,000,000 for just the E-mini S&P 500. That number sounds closer to average daily volume for the CME across all contracts. 1,032,000 is a bit below average for ES,though. It's growing rapidly year over year. Brief summary is given here, for the lucky (smart) investors http://investor.cme.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=212950 Good Trading!
As a related question: do they show the existing number of contracts somewhere? I would be interested to find out how many times a day a contract changes hands...
That can be tracked from the first day a new contract trades...........you can then see going forward how many contracts are "net" negative or positive realtime day to day.
They show open interest at the same link as above, the one with the daily settlement prices. The open interest is one day delayed, so to get the turnover ratio you'ld want to compare the change in open interest from one day to the next with the first day's volume figures. That gives you an idea how much of the volume comes from positions that are closed and opened the same day, versus how many result in new net longs and shorts.
For last Friday ES: EST ---- PRIOR DAY ---- VOL SETT VOL INT 1058K 1427.50 1032K 1541K So the traded volume was about 2/3 of the Open interest. The NQ had a higher turnover, every contract changed hands at least once...
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I would if you could give me something real instead of your usual pseudo bullshit. Open interest is 1.5 million contracts, Volume is over 1 million, so you tell me what I have to restate, please....