PrimeXM, a provider of forex trading technologies, released its metrics for January 2022, reporting a total monthly trading volume of $1.19 trillion and thus closing another month above the $1 trillion mark.
Trading demand handled by the platform’s 4 data centers also increased significantly. January’s total volume jumped by 13 percent from the cyclical dip in the previous month and a solid 34 percent growth year-over-year.
As always, the London data center , LD4, handled most of the trades with $923.07 billion in notional trading volume, which was 8.35 percent higher than the previous month. Tokyo remained in the second position, handling $143.10 billion, while the New York data center processed $118.20 billion worth of trades.
The Singapore data center, which PrimeXM deployed in July 2021, is still in its infancy stage and handled trade volumes worth only $1.85 billion, but the figure is steadily growing.
Strong ADV
The average daily volume (ADV) on the platform came in at $56.49 billion for the month, which is a 23.73 percent increase month-over-month and 4.44 percent year-over-year. The total number of trades executed on the platform was 32.48 million, which is 15 percent higher compared to the last year’s figure.
Coming to the products, XAUUSD remained the traders’ favorite with $304.4 billion in notional value traded with this instrument alone. That was 25.65 percent of all the volume of that month. The US30 instrument stood second with 14.18 percent of all demand and $168.2 billion in absolute volume followed by the EURUSD pair with $151.8 billion.
