Our report concludes that the increase in the number of futures contracts from 30,000 contracts in 2004 to 220,000 contracts in 2008 has created this additional demand for futures contracts unconnected to and without parallel in the cash market.
Levin discusses the significant increase in futures contracts compared to the cash market.
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