Institutional FX in Red: Volumes Lower at FXSpotStream, Fastmatch

Activity on FXSpotStream’s trading venue, the aggregator service of LiquidityMatch LLC, dropped in February. The company reported an average daily volume (ADV) of $34.8 billion, which is lower on a monthly basis by 9.2 percent from $38.3 billion back in January 2019, when volumes shot up to fresh highs in the group’s seven-year history.

Across a yearly timetable, however, the ADV is higher by over 20 percent when weighed against $28.8 billion reported in the same month the previous year.

FXSpotStream also saw a notable drop across its total trading volumes in February 2019 after reported just $696 billion for the month, down 17 percent month-on-month from $844 ‎billion in January 2019. The difference should partially be explained by fewer working days since February saw a total of 20 trading days, compared with 22 in the month prior.

Cboe FX, another big player in the institutional FX market, today reported a 13 percent drop in average volumes in February.

Fastmatch Metrics

The FX trading venue of Euronext has also reported trading volumes for February, which also took a step back last month. Fastmatch is reporting a total of $363 billion that has changed hands during February 2019, representing a 17 percent decline off $441 billion reported back in January 2019.

The average trading volume metric was lower on a month-over-month basis, albeit by approximately by 7.5 percent relative to January and by 14 percent when compared to February of last year.

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