The Chicago Board of Trade, one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, today announced that January’s total volume was 65,968,217 contracts, an increase of 20 percent over January 2006. Volume for the month averaged 3,141,344 contracts per day, up 14 percent from the same month last year. Average daily volume (ADV) on the Exchange’s e-cbot® electronic trading platform was 2,365,319 contracts in January, a 22 percent increase compared with January 2006.