Wednesday,15/10/2014|06:19GMTby
George Tchetvertakov
Cumulatively, Japanese retail brokers report a 93% improvement in forex trading volumes in September with a 42% improvement YoY. Binary Options volumes suffered a 16% fall although existing and active accounts continued to rise.
The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has published its monthly update on FX and Binary Options volumes seen at retail Japanese brokerages listed with the association. The OTC FX monthly bulletin is accompanied by the personal OTC binary options bulletin showing that whereas Forex volumes have broadly increased amongst Japanese brokers in the month of September, binary options interest slowed.
The FFAJ lists 61 OTC retail FX margin trading operators with firms such as GMO Click, IG Securities, JFX and Waijei FX among the names although only 50 brokers report trading figures for collation.
The significant change in total FX trading volume from ¥195.7 trillion ($1.82 trillion) in August to ¥378 trillion ($3.53 trillion) in September represents a 93% month on month increase. Compared to September 2013, FX volumes rose 42% year-on-year. Open-interest in FX margin contracts decreased from 67,749 in August to 66,842 in September, a 1.3% fall.
Pick the Pair
In terms of currency pair preference, the majority of traders at Japanese broking firms prefer to trade USD/JPY (73%) and GBP/JPY (9%) as prime favourites. Whereas European-based traders tend to focus on EUR/USD on average, in Japan only 5% of all trading volume was conducted between the Euro and the US dollar.
The cumulative figures published by the FFAJ predictably indicate that the raft of positive volumes reports from Japanese brokers since the end of September adds up to a superbly lucrative month for the Japanese Retail Trading industry.
Binary Options
The FFAJ also publishes statistics relating to OTC binary options products being offered by Japanese brokers. OTC Retail Binary Options figures do not include binary option transactions traded by corporates or institutional investors.
The 8 reporting members saw a 16% decline in binary options volume in September with ¥57.5 billion (~$536 million) being traded in September, down from ¥69 billion (~$633 million) in August.
The amount of existing binary accounts has grown by a modest 1% from 287,132 to 289,979 while a total of 614 new active accounts were opened in September - amongst the 7 trading members and 1 intermediate member of the JJAF (GMO Click Securities, Traders Securities, IG Securities, JFX, Planex Trade, YJ FX, Hirose FX and FX Trade Financial).
The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has published its monthly update on FX and Binary Options volumes seen at retail Japanese brokerages listed with the association. The OTC FX monthly bulletin is accompanied by the personal OTC binary options bulletin showing that whereas Forex volumes have broadly increased amongst Japanese brokers in the month of September, binary options interest slowed.
The FFAJ lists 61 OTC retail FX margin trading operators with firms such as GMO Click, IG Securities, JFX and Waijei FX among the names although only 50 brokers report trading figures for collation.
The significant change in total FX trading volume from ¥195.7 trillion ($1.82 trillion) in August to ¥378 trillion ($3.53 trillion) in September represents a 93% month on month increase. Compared to September 2013, FX volumes rose 42% year-on-year. Open-interest in FX margin contracts decreased from 67,749 in August to 66,842 in September, a 1.3% fall.
Pick the Pair
In terms of currency pair preference, the majority of traders at Japanese broking firms prefer to trade USD/JPY (73%) and GBP/JPY (9%) as prime favourites. Whereas European-based traders tend to focus on EUR/USD on average, in Japan only 5% of all trading volume was conducted between the Euro and the US dollar.
The cumulative figures published by the FFAJ predictably indicate that the raft of positive volumes reports from Japanese brokers since the end of September adds up to a superbly lucrative month for the Japanese Retail Trading industry.
Binary Options
The FFAJ also publishes statistics relating to OTC binary options products being offered by Japanese brokers. OTC Retail Binary Options figures do not include binary option transactions traded by corporates or institutional investors.
The 8 reporting members saw a 16% decline in binary options volume in September with ¥57.5 billion (~$536 million) being traded in September, down from ¥69 billion (~$633 million) in August.
The amount of existing binary accounts has grown by a modest 1% from 287,132 to 289,979 while a total of 614 new active accounts were opened in September - amongst the 7 trading members and 1 intermediate member of the JJAF (GMO Click Securities, Traders Securities, IG Securities, JFX, Planex Trade, YJ FX, Hirose FX and FX Trade Financial).
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* Why Dubai and the MENA region are critical growth markets for fintech and online trading.
* How Exness is addressing the demands of mobile-first, younger traders through engineering, platform stability, and transparent conditions.
* The essential role local talent plays in providing a culturally relevant and compliant user experience.
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➡️ The MENA region is rapidly shaping global financial markets.
➡️ New traders expect stability, precise execution, and transparency.
➡️ Local expertise is key to regulatory compliance and user experience.
➡️ Future success belongs to firms capable of meeting rising standards across regulation and platform consistency.
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