Sochi Olympics + Muted Volatility = A Slow But Steady February in FX Trading. After beginning 2014 with a bang in January, with retail FX trading volumes posting their second best ever result at $322 billion ADV, the industry saw something of a slowdown in February, although all in all it was still a decent…
Read moreGAIN Capital has today released its monthly operating metrics for the month of February 2014 - slowdown across the board GAIN Capital has experienced a considerable downturn in trading volumes during February this year, indicating a 20.3% decrease in retail OTC trading from January 2014 at $169.3 billion, although when compared to the same period one…
Read moreUS retail FX stalwart FXCM declared record performance for 2013. Can this be sustained in 2014? Despite a stellar performance during the last year, FXCM yesterday reported a month-on-month decline in trading volumes as detailed by LeapRate, with the company's trading volumes having begun to wane as the second month of 2014 drew to a…
Read moreThe upcoming New Zealand registered brokerage maintains its solid drive Volume numbers at New Zealand registered and CySEC regulated upcoming brokerage have dipped slightly lower in February by 7% to $140.8 million. When compared to recently reporting companies, this seems to be a rather negligible drop, especially when put in context to the month of…
Read moreJanuary's trend reversal was a one off event – growth continues to be stifled at the UK brokerage As we are getting the latest report from UK brokerage ICAP (LON:IAP) on volumes traded over its EBS platform the numbers are anything but disappointing. A total of $83.5 billion have shaken hands over the company’s electronic dealing…
Read moreJanuary’s sharp increase is partially reversed, still much higher than Q4 2013 monthly average GMO Click has just reported its monthly volumes numbers for the month of February and just as Monex Group, their business has turned lower in the second month of the year. The figures have been reported at ¥73 trillion ($714 billion),…
Read moreThe rebound has ended – Japanese investors’ risk appetite has been fading throughout the month Japanese Monex Group has just reported trading volumes for the month of February. With figures dropping by 17% over last month to ¥139 billion ($1.36 billion) we can conclude the volumes recovery theme for now. As the imminent sales tax-hike…
Read moreThe upward trend pauses, figures lower by 28% over last year FX contracts volumes traded on the CME Group have dipped lower by 7% in the month of February to 769,000 contracts daily. That marks a break in a rising trend that we have observed since October of last year. The average daily notional value…
Read moreLooks like February was another blowout month in the electronic FX trading world. CME Group, which runs the world's largest derivatives marketplace, announced that FX contract volumes (mainly Eurodollar futures contracts) in its system were up by 19% in February from January, and up 26% from last year February, to an average of 1,067,000 contracts…
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