Market Efficiency

A cornerstone of Eurex's success is the unmatched market efficiency that we provide. Market participants enjoy efficient access to liquidity, a robust global distribution network and unparalleled system performance.

Efficient Access to Liquidity

Eurex's fully automated markets offer members immediate access to a wide range of international, highly liquid products, which have proven themselves resilient, especially in volatile markets.

Bid/ask spreads in our benchmark products are routinely one tick wide, and liquidity in many products continues to develop strongly. We have Market Makers in all of our option markets. In addition, new product launches are supported by Designated Market Makers to ensure liquidity right from the start of trading.

Members receive market depth of up to 20 levels deep, providing enhanced decision-making information.

Global Distribution Network and Customer Diversity

Our aim is to reduce barriers to membership, we have therefore broadened access to our markets, enhancing liquidity for all market participants. Currently, our global distribution network connects more than 400 institutions from 24 countries, with more than 8,600 admitted traders.

System Performance

As a pioneer of electronic trading, we continue to set the standards. We anticipate future developments in technology by constantly optimizing the Eurex® system to accelerate trading speed and throughput, upgrading system capacity, enhancing real-time information distribution and improving interfaces - always being one step ahead.

The tripling of system transactions since March 2007 is a testament to the need for continual enhancement. In fact, the average is nearly seven million contracts traded in a single day.

Capacity, at over 800 million quotes per day, is not the only thing that Eurex is continually enhancing. By introducing the Enhanced Transaction Solution optional interface, response time for orders has been reduced to six milliseconds.