FUTURES VOLUME
How much futures trading happens in a day
What changed hands, how much of it was buying and selling at market, and how that compares with the money left open at the end of the day.
Futures volume across 11 exchanges
Recorded on 3 of the 11 exchanges we cover; the rest publish no reading of this kind.
Latest displayed reading: $14,351,318,672 on Sep 7, 2026. This view shows 68 dated readings from Jul 2, 2026 to Sep 7, 2026. The latest displayed reading is lower than the first. The displayed low is $3,096,185,751 on Aug 15, 2026. The displayed high is $65,300,717,696 on Aug 21, 2026. Every day in this range has a reading.
Pick two to four dates and read this chart's values side by side.
Where does it stand?
$14.35 billionof futures traded in a dayOn 3 of the 11 exchanges we cover, as of Sep 7, 2026.$7.18 billionbought at marketOn 3 of the 11 exchanges we cover, as of Sep 7, 2026.$7.73 billionsold at marketOn 3 of the 11 exchanges we cover, as of Sep 7, 2026.$26.25 billionin open betsOn 18 of the 20 contracts we cover, as of Sep 7, 2026.How fast is that money turning over?
0.55 times the open bets, in a day$14.35 billion changed hands against $26.25 billion left open at the end of the day. A high ratio means positions are being opened and closed quickly; a low one means the money sitting there is mostly staying put. The two figures cover different numbers of exchanges, which the coverage lines under each of them give.
What does this cover?
11 exchanges: Binance, Bitget, BitMEX, Bybit, Coinbase International, Gate, HTX, Hyperliquid, Kraken Futures, MEXC and OKX.
Recorded on 3 of the 11 exchanges we cover; the rest publish no reading of this kind.
3 exchanges: Binance, Bybit and OKX.
Recorded on all 3 exchanges.
Two views of the same number run side by side on this page and are never joined into one line. The wider one covers every exchange here and is the more complete picture; it is also the younger, because it only begins on the first day all of them reported. The narrower one is three exchanges with months of history behind it. A single line spliced from both would draw a step upward on the morning the other exchanges arrived and it would look exactly like a market move.
Understanding Bitcoin Futures Trading Volume
Where it stands today
$14.35 billion of Bitcoin futures changed hands in a day as of .
$7.18 billion of that was bought at market as of .
$7.73 billion of that was sold at market as of .
Volume counts what was traded. A single position opened and closed within the day appears twice in volume and leaves nothing behind in open interest, so a busy day is not automatically a day when more money took a side.
Trading at market means taking whatever price is on offer rather than waiting at a price of your own. Splitting a day's volume into what was bought at market and what was sold at market is the closest thing here to a measure of urgency, because the side that will not wait is the side paying for speed.
Volume against open interest is a rough measure of turnover. A high ratio means positions are being opened and closed quickly; a low one means the money sitting there is mostly staying put.
Two views of the same number run side by side on this page and are never joined into one line. The wider one covers every exchange here and is the more complete picture; it is also the younger, because it only begins on the first day all of them reported. The narrower one is three exchanges with months of history behind it. A single line spliced from both would draw a step upward on the morning the other exchanges arrived and it would look exactly like a market move.