2nd Global Derivatives Conference 2012 China

Overview of ETD market performance in 2011

In domestic market, 4 futures exchanges (Shanghai futures exchanges, Dalian Commodity Exchanges, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange and China financial futures exchanges) totally trade 137,513.4 billion RMB futures products, among them, stock index futures volume is 43,765.8 billion RMB. The turnover of SHFE in 2011 is 434,53.436 billion, account for 31.6%. The gold future contract has the largest growth, up to 178.68% YTY. copper increased almost 0.98% YTY and other products reduced.

The reason could be that some of futures contract products may cannot satisfy enterprise’s demand. With the global economic raise, China industry makers buy more raw materials from oversea and sell products to overseas as well. They need hedge price not only domestic market but also international market. Enterprise and government supervisor more and more focus it and really do some innovations.