Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a global technology and data provider, today announced that the global futures and options markets hit a record open interest (OI) of 107.6 million contracts on October 20, 2025, up 16% year-over-year (YoY).
Records released on October 20, 2025 include:
- Record total OI futures contracts of 57.5 million, up 17% YoY.
- Commodity futures record OI 43.2 million, up 14% YoY.
- Energy futures record OI 41.1 million, up 14% YoY.
- Oil futures record OI 11.2 million, up 24% YoY.
- Record ICE Brent futures OI of 3.1M, up 27% YoY.
Record European gas futures OI of 3.2 million, including record ICE TTF futures OI of 2.7 million, up 31% YoY and 30% YoY respectively.
“These records are a testament to the confidence our clients have in the deep liquidity of our benchmarks and the thousands of underlying contracts,” said Trabue Bland, SVP of Futures Markets at ICE. “Liquidity offers critical flexibility and choice to customers as they navigate an increasingly interconnected energy landscape.”