Moscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), the biggest Russian trading venue for currencies, shares and derivatives, has earlier today published its monthly volume metrics for April 2016, with Forex volumes staging a drop in monthly terms, continuing a trend already exhibited in March 2016. MOEX reported monthly FX market turnover of RUB 27.3…
Read moreGain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has just posted its key operating metrics for April 2016, with average daily volumes up and monthly trading volumes down from March 2016 levels. While on the retail front, OTC average daily volume amounted to $12.2 billion, up 5% from March 2016, the monthly result of $255.8 billion was down…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just published its volumes metrics for April 2016, with Forex volumes continuing the downward trend exhibited in March 2016. CME Group reported FX average daily volume (ADV) of 771,000 contracts for April 2016, a reading that is 15.5% down from the reading of 912,000 contracts reported for…
Read moreInteractive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), one of the major online trading services providers in the US, has just posted its key operating metrics for April 2016, with trading activity growing slightly from March 2016. At least, this is indicated by the 1% month-on-month rise in daily average revenue trades (DARTs) last month. Adding to the…
Read moreDubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) today announces that its year-to-date (YTD) trading volume topped 6 million contracts in April 2016, marking a rise of 45% over the same period last year whilst maintaining a steady Average Daily Open Interest of 109,487 contracts. The increase in overall volumes was mainly driven by DGCX’s currency segment,…
Read moreThe Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just published its operating metrics for April 2016, with Forex volumes continuing to fall after already registering a double-digit decrease in March. TFX’s Click 365 total trading volumes, that is, the volume of Exchange FX Margin contracts, fell 7.9% from March 2016 levels to 3,163,143 contracts. The annual comparison,…
Read moreInstitutional electronic FX platform FastMatch saw its trading volumes rise in April 2016 in both monthly and annual terms. Average daily volumes amounted to $10.8 billion in April 2016, up 6.9% from the result of $10.11 billion registered in March 2016. In annual terms, the comparison was even more positive, as the ADV in April…
Read moreHotspot, the ECN marketplace owned by BATS Global Markets, Inc. (BATS:BATS), saw little change in daily FX volumes in April 2016, as the average daily volumes amounted to $25.6 billion, up 0.4% from the level of $25.5 billion per day seen in March 2016. In annual terms, the comparison was gloomier, as the April 2016…
Read moreIn April 2014, turnover for Alpari in Russia and the CIS was 107.7 bn USD. The figure is down by 18% on this March's data, returning to the level seen in February. The total volume of trades in the last month encompassed 792,649 lots. The volume drop off was in line with what we saw…
Read moreLow volatility takes its toll. In what is becoming a very up-and-down year volume-wise (see graph below), Retail Forex brokers saw another down month in April. LeapRate's Retail FX Volume Index fell in April by more than 6% to $281 billion ADV, making April 2014 the slowest (non-December) month since November 2012. Institutional brokers generally…
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