Fairly exhaustive futures market summary....

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Fairly exhaustive futures market summary....

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Quite a few markets that I follow and/or trade, did not appear on this list. A few examples:
  • Oats
    Rough Rice
    Feeder Cattle
    Goldman Sachs Commodity Index
    Lumber
    Palladium
    Spring Wheat (Minneapolis)
    New Zealand Dollar (CME/IMM)
    Swiss Govt Bond "CONF" (Eurex)
    5-Year Swapnote (LIFFE)
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possibly the 5k a day vol cutoff?

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I don't think that's the only reason
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Thanks for posting that, I don't subscribe to that magazine.
I always use plenty of tumeric in my Butter Chicken, but I had no idea you could actually trade it!
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Thanks for that, very useful. Just one question (possibly a silly one)- is the futures daily volume given just for the front month contract or for all the quoted months?
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is the futures daily volume given just for the front month contract or for all the quoted months?
The article doesn't say. However you can figure it out yourself with just a bit of digging:
  1. Find a futures market whose total volume (for all quoted months) is very different than the front month volume. Such as Eurodollars.
  2. Pull up a chart of front month volume and total volume for that futures market; example CSI UA chart below
  3. Determine which one is closer to the volume number mentioned in the article
If you don't happen to be near a computer with CSI UA installed, you can look at the quote page of The Wall Street Journal (here)
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Post by mmtrader »

I thought perhaps the OP might have a definitive answer. Obviously there are other ways to estimate it.

So on that basis, it looks like it is just the front month.

Great, thanks.
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