MONTHLY TRADING STATEMENTS FOR BME’S MARKETS
- The number of Equity trades is up 16.3% from the previous month
 - New issues the Fixed Income markets in January increased by 128.1%
 - The Financial Derivatives market traded 1.5 million contracts
 
The Spanish stock exchange traded 32 billion euros in Equities in January, up 15.3% from the previous month and up 3.1% from the same month in 2021. The number of trades was 3.68 million, 16.3% higher than in December and 15.9% lower than in January last year.
BME's market share in Spanish equities in 2021 stood at 69,37%. %. The average spread in this month was 5.75 basis points at the first price level (11.9% better than the next trading venue) and 7.94 basis points with order book depth of 25,000 euros (37.1% better), according to an independent report by LiquidMetrix, available here: Reports DR (EU) 2017/575 | BME Exchange. All figures include both transparent order book (LIT) trading – including auctions – and non-transparent (dark) off-book trading.
The trading volume in January on the Fixed Income markets reached 14.7 billion euros, 85.2% more than in December and 23% below the level of January 2021. New issues, including Public Debt and Private Fixed Income, amounted to 45 billion euros, up 128.1% from the previous month.
The outstanding balance stood at 1.72 trillion euros, an increase of 0.2% in the month and up 3% from January 2021.
The Financial Derivatives market traded 1.5 million contracts in January, representing a notional 41.7 million euros, 13.16% more than in the same month of the previous year. Trading in Futures on the IBEX 35 index increased by 9.9% compared to January 2021 and in Mini IBEX Futures contracts by 6.9% compared to December. Trading in Equity Futures contracts was 80.6% higher than in the same month of the previous year and the open interest in these contracts was 33% higher.
Trading by business areas and assets
| 
                   | 
                 January 2022  | 
                 %Change Jan22-Dec21  | 
                 %Change Jan22-Jan21  | 
                
Equities(1)  | 
                 
                   | 
                 
                   | 
                 
                   | 
                
- Equities  | 
                 32,045.3  | 
                 15.3%  | 
                 3.1%  | 
                
Number of trades  | 
                 3,684.1  | 
                 16.3%  | 
                 -15.9%  | 
                
- Warrants  | 
                 27.6  | 
                 19.3%  | 
                 34.1%  | 
                
Number of trades  | 
                 6.7  | 
                 19.1%  | 
                 16.4%  | 
                
- ETFs  | 
                 95.2  | 
                 -7.9%  | 
                 -29.3%  | 
                
Number of trades  | 
                 6.4  | 
                 1.3%  | 
                 -18.4%  | 
                
Fixed Income(1)  | 
                 
                   | 
                 
                   | 
                 
                   | 
                
- Traded Volume(2)  | 
                 14,642.9  | 
                 85.2%  | 
                 -23.0%  | 
                
- New Issues  | 
                 44,962.8  | 
                 128.1%  | 
                 -24.8%  | 
                
- Outstanding Balance  | 
                 1,722,958.2  | 
                 0.2%  | 
                 3.0%  | 
                
Financial derivatives(3)  | 
                 
                   | 
                 
                   | 
                 
                   | 
                
- Futures: IBEX 35  | 
                 449.2  | 
                 2.2%  | 
                 9.9%  | 
                
Mini IBEX 35  | 
                 76.4  | 
                 6.9%  | 
                 -7.1%  | 
                
Shares  | 
                 22.5  | 
                 -98.2%  | 
                 80.6%  | 
                
- Options: IBEX 35  | 
                 123.3  | 
                 -49.3%  | 
                 -14.7%  | 
                
Shares  | 
                 863.6  | 
                 -60.7%  | 
                 -40.8%  | 
                
(1) Effective trading volume by asset type in million euros; number of trades in thousands
(2) The trading volume includes only trading on electronic platforms
(3) Thousands of contracts