Korea lists 6,276 currency-futures rows. 221 traded.
A listed contract and a traded contract are not the same thing. Over 24 sessions the Korea Exchange carried 6,276 currency-futures contract-days. On221 of them — 3.5% — at least one contract changed hands. The rest closed with a price and no trade behind it.
Why most data vendors cannot show you this
The count depends entirely on keeping the zero rows. A feed that drops contract-days with no volume — which is the normal, tidy thing to do — cannot produce this number at all, because the thing being counted is exactly what was dropped. We keep every listed row the exchange published and count the ones with volume of one or more.
The flex contracts
4,260 of the 6,276 contract-days are flex contracts — negotiated terms registered through the exchange. Across the whole window,0 of them traded. Not a low number: none.
⚠ That is a count, not a verdict. A flex line that never prints may be doing its job — standing ready — and this feed cannot tell us whether anyone wanted it.
By currency
| Currency | Listed days | Traded days | Share traded | Volume | Open interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US dollar | 5,196 | 113 | 2.2% | 22,397,045 | 31,994,870 |
| Japanese yen | 360 | 57 | 15.8% | 41,020 | 338,079 |
| Euro | 360 | 34 | 9.4% | 36,826 | 560,686 |
| Chinese yuan | 360 | 17 | 4.7% | 1,229 | 567 |
Contract-days, not contracts: a single listed line counted once for every session it was listed. 0 rows carried no currency we could read.
Session by session
| Session | Listed | Traded | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 270 | 10 | 809,163 |
| 2026-09-02 | 268 | 8 | 686,701 |
| 2026-09-03 | 266 | 11 | 758,006 |
| 2026-09-04 | 264 | 11 | 717,651 |
| 2026-09-07 | 262 | 10 | 1,005,745 |
| 2026-09-08 | 260 | 10 | 952,053 |
| 2026-09-09 | 258 | 10 | 922,197 |
| 2026-09-10 | 256 | 9 | 831,934 |
| 2026-09-11 | 254 | 8 | 812,780 |
| 2026-09-14 | 252 | 10 | 751,440 |
| 2026-09-15 | 250 | 12 | 1,122,623 |
| 2026-09-16 | 248 | 10 | 1,433,140 |
| 2026-09-17 | 246 | 12 | 1,502,400 |
| 2026-09-18 | 246 | 12 | 1,485,429 |
| 2026-09-21 | 246 | 10 | 738,501 |
| 2026-09-22 | 278 | 7 | 1,225,880 |
| 2026-09-23 | 276 | 7 | 959,309 |
| 2026-09-28 | 274 | 7 | 845,873 |
| 2026-09-29 | 272 | 7 | 890,718 |
| 2026-09-30 | 270 | 7 | 862,293 |
| 2026-10-01 | 268 | 6 | 828,792 |
| 2026-10-02 | 266 | 8 | 901,184 |
| 2026-10-06 | 264 | 9 | 713,562 |
| 2026-10-07 | 262 | 10 | 718,746 |
What this page does not tell you
- That anything should be delisted. Keeping a contract available without trades is a design choice an exchange makes deliberately. We have not measured whether it works, and this page takes no view on it.
- Why a contract does not trade. Hedging demand, margin, dealer coverage — none of that is in this feed. We counted rows.
- That Korean FX futures are «always» like this. 24 sessions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-10-07. The window is short and we say so rather than widening the claim.
- Anything to act on. No recommendation, no implication about any venue or participant. We draw the terrain; the reader sets their own needle.
Source: the daily Korean derivatives files we collect, filtered to the currency axis. Every figure is computed at build time from fx-futures-listed-vs-traded.json; none is transcribed by hand. Contract-days with zero volume are kept and counted, which is what makes the ratio measurable at all.