Trading in the fourth quarter averaged over 27 million contracts, while December averaged 23 million, figures that underline a busy year for the exchange operator.
Record Annual Volume ReachedInterest rate futures and options were the single largest segment, with average daily volume of about 14 million contracts for the year. Equity index contracts added roughly 7.4 million on average each day.
Energy trading averaged near 2.7 million contracts, and agricultural products came in around 1.9 million. Metals trading set records too, with roughly 988,000 contracts daily. According to company data and market coverage, these numbers combined to push the overall ADV to the 28.1 million mark.
CME Group 2025 Market Statistics Highest Annual ADV Ever: 28.1M contracts
Interest Rate: 14.2M* 
Equity Index: 7.4M 
Energy: 2.7M* 
Agricultural: 1.9M* 
Metals: 988K* 
FX: 980K 
Crypto: 278K*
The steep rise in crypto derivatives helped lift activity outside the more traditional segments and increased the share of international and institutional flows.
Monthly data showed several high-water marks. April registered one of the year’s strongest months, with average daily volume near 35.9 million contracts, while November also posted exceptionally high monthly averages above 33 million.
Those spikes reflected bouts of market volatility and heavy hedging across asset classes, according to traders and analysts cited in coverage of the figures.
Trading firms and investors said that shifts in interest-rate views, renewed energy-market activity and the return of strong crypto flows were all factors behind the numbers. The exchange’s published market-statistics package provides the detailed breakdowns, and regulators and market watchers will be parsing the data as they consider liquidity and market structure questions.
Featured image from CME Group, chart from TradingView
