FXSpotStream Sees 2.7% MoM Decline in November's ADV

FXSpotStream LLC, a provider of multibank FX aggregation services for spot FX trading, published its trading metrics for November, reporting $1.48 trillion in total monthly volumes. The figure has strengthened by 2 percent from the previous month and almost 31 percent year-over-year.

However, the average daily volume (ADV) handled by the platform dropped by 2.7 percent month-over-month, with the absolute figure at more than $67 billion. The figure improved year-over-year as it increased by 31 percent.

The ADV dropped month-over-month despite a higher monthly volume because November had 22 trading days compared to 21 in the previous month.

An Industry-Wide Trend

The monthly figures of FXSpotStream followed the same trend as Cboe FX, a prominent American institutional spot FX trading platform Trading Platform In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real Read this Term. That platform also witnessed a marginal increase in total monthly volume, but ADV dropped by nearly 2 percent. Deutsche Borse's 360T, on the other hand, did not follow this trend, as the total monthly volume and ADV on the platform both jumped month-over-month. However, demand on the European platform declined year-over-year.

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Its total monthly volume in November came in to be third best in the company's operational history, only behind last September and March. Its total volume peaked in March at $1.61 trillion. And, November was the 11th consecutive month the platform reported a figure above a trillion dollars.