Continuing the stream of strong and record FX trading volumes we’ve been seeing from leading retail and institutional eFX venues to start off 2018, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that February FX trading volumes came in at $28.8 billion ADV, topping January’s $26.3 billion by 9% and making February 2018 FXSpotStream’s best month ever.
FXSpotStream’s previous volume record coming into 2018 was $23.9 billion ADV in September 2017. January 2018 beat that by more than 10%, and February by more than 20%.
By another comparison measure, FXSpotStream averaged $19.5 billion in daily volumes during 2017.
Overall volume in February was $576.63 billion, FXSpotStream’s second highest on record and slightly lower than the overall record set in January at $579.46 billion, despite the fact that February had two less trading days than January.
FXSpotStream Monthly Volumes
| Month |
Total Volume* | Avg Daily Volume (ADV) | ADV Change MoM |
ADV Change YoY | Trading Days |
| Feb-18 | $576,631 | $28,832 | +9.5% | +54.1% | 20 |
| Jan-18 | $579,463 | $26,339 | +32.8% | +39.7% | 22 |
| Dec-17 | $396,543 | $19,827 | -10.1% | +12.8% | 20 |
| Nov-17 | $485,418 | $22,064 | +10.9% | -1% | 22 |
| Oct-17 | $437,731 | $19,897 | -16.9% | +16.3% | 22 |
| Sept-17 | $502,747 | $23,940 | +24.6% | +54.9% | 21 |
| Aug-17 | $441,936 | $19,215 | +9.5% | +54.6% | 23 |
| Jul-17 | $368,589 | $17,552 | -13.6% | -10.7% | 21 |
| Jun-17 | $446,818 | $20,310 | +16.4% | -2.1% | 22 |
| May-17 | $401,400 | $17,452 | +2% | +8.7% | 23 |
| Apr-17 | $342,322 | $17,116 | -8.9% | -4.8% | 20 |
| Mar-17 | $431,899 | $18,778 | +0.3% | +6.4% | 23 |
| Feb-17 | $374,279 | $18,714 | -0.8% | -10.8% | 20 |
| Jan-17 | $414,863 | $18,857 | +7.3% | -5.6% | 22 |
| Dec-16 | $386,705 | $17,578 | -21.2% | +33.5% | 22 |
| Nov-16 | $490,498 | $22,295 | +30.4% | +69.1% | 22 |
| Oct-16 | $359,176 | $17,104 | +10.7% | +24.5% | 21 |
| Sept-16 | $339,942 | $15,452 | +24.3% | -4.7% | 22 |
| Aug-16 | $285,831 | $12,427 | -36.8% | -20.6% | 23 |
| Jul-16 | $412,617 | $19,648 | -5.3% | +39.6% | 21 |
| Jun-16 | $456,490 | $20,750 | +29.2% | +41.5% | 22 |
| May-16 | $353,326 | $16,060 | -10.7% | +26% | 22 |
| Apr-16 | $377,543 | $17,978 | +1.9% | +41% | 21 |
| Mar-16 | $405,823 | $17,644 | -15.9% | +23.8% | 23 |
| Feb-16 | $440,517 | $20,977 | +5% | +57% | 21 |
| Jan-16 | $399,477 | $19,974 | +51.7% | +21.6% | 20 |
* Volumes in USD millions, single count, for all streaming and matching products.
FXSpotStream is a bank owned consortium operating as a market utility, providing the infrastructure that facilitates a multibank API and GUI to route trades from clients to Liquidity Providers. FXSpotStream provides liquidity from 13 leading global banks – BofA Merrill Lynch, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BNP Paribas, Citi, Commerzbank AG, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered, State Street and UBS.