Tokyo Financial Exchange FX Trading Volumes Drop 25.5% in February

The Japanese trading venue, Tokyo Financial Exchange Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv Read this Term(TFX), has released its volumes figures for the month of February 2014, showing considerable declines in FX trading both on a monthly comparison and on a yearly comparison.

During February, Click 365 exchange traded margin FX total volumes suffered a 25.5% decrease compared to the previous month, coming in at just 2,382,278 contracts, which is even worse in a yearly comparison as it is down 65.5% from February 2013. On average, the FX trading volume of Click 365 was 119,114 contracts a day during the month, compared with January's 145,343.

To put the February FX figures in perspective, the total trading volume on all TFX's products experienced a 21.3% decrease compared to the previous month, and it's down 59.6% year-on-year. Equity Index Margin trading volumes were down 13.7% compared to the previous month and interest rate futures trading actually increased by 10%.

Examining the most traded currency pairs on the TFX reveals that all yen-based pairs suffered declines in trading volumes in February, with only the GBP/USD increasing in volumes. The USD/YEN, CHF/YEN and NZD/YEN all experienced declines in trading volumes of over 30% over the month.