Thailand’s Futures Market traded a total of 129 million contracts in 2023

In the year 2023, the futures market saw an average daily trading volume of 534,898 contracts, totaling 129 million contracts. The trading of equity and precious metal products remained popular, while the currency exchange products showed significant growth.

Miss Rinjai Chakkraphiphat, Managing Director of Thailand Futures Exchange Public Company Limited (TFEX), revealed that in the year 2023, TFEX had a total trading volume of 129,445,418 contracts, averaging 534,898 contracts per day. This represents a slight decrease compared to the year 2022 (565,627 contracts per day). The trend is in line with the slowdown in securities trading.

The most popular products were in the Equity group, including SET50 Futures, SET50 Options, and Stock Futures, which accounted for 83% of the total trading volume. The trading volume of SET50 Options and SET50 Futures grew by 14% and 13% respectively…