Volumes in Japan decrease 35% on average from July to August

by Oz Golan, Tradency.

Japanese Brokers have recently reported a significant decrease of 35% on average for their monthly trading volumes between July and August. This was probably caused by the launch of the new regulations in the Japanese market, in which Leverage Leverage In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders Read this Term was decreased to 1:50. On top of this, the competition for low spreads might have an additional negative effect on the broker revenues, as their margins are getting tighter on each trade.

This may have an effect on the market for only a short time, as I assume that Japanese brokers hope that client life time and profitability percentage of clients will increase as a result of the lower leverage, which will lead to longer client lifetime and larger volumes per account.

* - Data by Yano Research Institute