{"id":225664,"date":"2025-06-12T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=225664"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:02:52","slug":"forecast-trading-volumes-surged-in-recent-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/forecast-trader\/forecast-trading-volumes-surged-in-recent-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecast Trading Volumes Surged in Recent Weeks: June 12, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The IBKR ForecastTrader platform continues to grow as investors have been turning to predictive contracts to invest, speculate, hedge and engage in arbitrage operations. The marketplace addresses a wide variety of topics, such as economic indicators, capital markets, politics and climate change. These instruments ask questions, such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forecasttrader.interactivebrokers.com\/eventtrader\/?loginType=1&amp;forwardTo=100&amp;clt=0&amp;ip2loc=OFF&amp;locale=en_US#\/market-details?id=620731015%7C20250613%7C6050\">Will Jun-25 CME E-mini S&amp;P 500 Index Futures settle above $6,050 on June 12, 2025?<\/a>\u201d Investors purchase either \u201cYes\u201d or \u201cNo\u201d answers and if their answer is correct, they receive $1 for each instrument that they own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"94\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Picture1-8.png\" alt=\"ForecastTrader Contract regarding CME e-mini S&amp;P 500\" class=\"wp-image-225674 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Picture1-8.png 780w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Picture1-8-700x84.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Picture1-8-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Picture1-8-768x93.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 780px; aspect-ratio: 780\/94;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first large increase in transactions occurred during the 2024 presidential election. Even with the election occurring in November, investors closing out positions resulted in January\u2019s average daily trading volume excluding weekends hitting 23,363 contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activity then moderated in February but then picked up as more investors became comfortable with contracts focused on economic indicators and other topics. For example, contracts addressing the Consumer Price Index and the fed funds rate have become among the most popular choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch of predictive contracts based on the settling prices of various index futures, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&amp;P 500 and the Nasdaq 100, was another factor that grew activity. In April, the average daily metric was 18,656, but by May, it increased to 50,330. This month to date updated as of yesterday is much stronger at 196,266, over 8 times the January average. 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