Low Volatility + Vacation = Slow Summer for FX trading. LeapRate's Retail FX Volume Index, sponsored by Leverate, fell by 5% in August to $167 billion per day from $175 billion in July. Note that July's figures were off 10.5% from $196 billion daily in June. August's figures represented the slowest month for FX trading in 2012…
Read moreGaitame only doing about $30 billion of monthly volume / $28M annualized revenue. Swiss-exchange listed Compagnie Financière Tradition SA (or "Tradition"), controlled by France's Viel & Cie, owns 49.5% of Gaitame, one of the largest Japanese Forex firms. In its 2012 first half results release, Tradition reported that revenue at Gaitame fell by 4% in…
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