Japanese Forex giant GMO Click Securities, a subsidiary of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has just published its key operating metrics for October 2015, with over-the-counter and on-exchange trading volumes staging a steep drop.

OTC Forex volumes marked their lowest level since August 2014, when the result stood at humble JPY 50.27 trillion.

Let’s take a look at the particular metrics:

• GMO Click reported OTC Forex volumes of JPY 86.19 trillion ($709 billion) in October 2015, down 34.3% from the JPY 131.16 trillion registered in September 2015.
• OTC Forex volumes in October 2015 showed a drop of 25% from the result recorded in October 2014.
• On the brighter side, the number of FX Neo accounts kept rising and reached 420,740 at the end of October 2015.
• The number of contracts traded on Click365, the on-exchange FX margin trading service, amounted to 434,293 in October 2015, down 25.4% from the result registered in September 2015 and down 31.5% from the result registered in October 2014.

GMO Click’s OTC Forex volumes (red line). Unit: trillion yen

To view the detailed operating metrics report by GMO Click for October 2015, click here.