European options market has grown much more than its counterparts in the United States over the past fifteen years, according to new data from Optionmetrics.
It is said that the company’s analysis of IVYDB EUROPE trading volumes between 2010 and 2025 shows that although the American options market has expanded significantly, Europe’s story was more restricted.
“European options markets seem to tell a quieter story over the past fifteen years, compared to the United States,” the report indicated.
Among the regional shocks, the Netherlands and Denmark have emerged as a winner of clear growth.
Dutch trading volumes rose steadily, with the support of the retail investor, the new products lists, and the innovation moved by the exchange.
The Denmark Market witnessed a more clear path, as the activity accelerated from 2020 by rising during the retail mutation in the era of the epidemic.
On the contrary, Spain and the United Kingdom were a steady decrease. Optionsmetrics said that the Spain market has suffered a volatile but declining path, with transverse mutations during stress events before settling at low levels.
Meanwhile, they indicated that the UK witnessed a more stable fall, sliding from the peaks in mid -2010 to more humble folders today.
Germany, which was weakening once due to a significant decline, managed to return to the previous levels. Meanwhile, big markets such as France, Italy and Belgium have maintained a relatively fixed activity, interspersed with nails during the periods of market turmoil.
The results of the options highlight the sheds of fragmented scene in Europe, where a handful of markets achieved only momentum, leaving the region behind the United States to expand derivatives in general.