With Japanese brokerages, Yen volatility is the theme for volume growth in 2014 The first of the Japanese forex brokerage powerhouses – GMO Click has announced its volume metrics for the final month of 2013 and we are in for a very positive number. During the month of December the company reported volumes out at 59.21…
Read moreWhile still higher than a year ago the trend is not reversing and volumes keep grinding lower The gradual pullback of Japanese retail investors form the forex market keeps on going. Volumes at the largest retail forex broker in Japan GMO Click have dropped by 12% in November to mark a decline to 52.2 trillion…
Read moreHowever volumes at the Japanese retail forex broker remain well below first half of the year levels. Continuing our theme of improving trading volumes in November, mid-size Japanese retail forex broker Monex Group (which also owns TradeStation and IBFX in the US), reported November average daily forex trading volumes of ¥110.6 billion, up 11% from October.…
Read moreVolumes will only pick up when we see volatility in the Japanese Yen return The well-known personality of Mrs. Watanabe as the housewife who sits at home and trades the forex market might be turning to other assets to realize gains following the reduction in volatility of JPY pairs. Japanese forex brokerages had reported earlier…
Read moreOctober volume metrics of $597 billion at Japan's largest retail forex broker are down 6% from September. Japanese retail forex traders' enthusiastic return to trading in 2013 seems to have waned somewhat in the second half of the year... GMO Click, Japan's largest retail forex broker, has reported October trading volumes of ¥59.1 trillion, or about…
Read moreMonex volume metrics still well below January-June levels, but more than double last year. Monex Group of Japan, a mid-size Japanese forex broker which also owns TradeStation and IBFX in the US, reported September forex trading volumes which rose nicely from slower summer levels, but which were still well below what Monex saw during a…
Read moreJapan's largest retail FX broker sees its lowest volumes since December 2012. Although GMO Click's forex trading volume metrics are still more than double what they were last year, there is a clear slowdown in forex trading in Japan after a record start to the year. GMO Click reported September trading volumes at ¥62.8 trillion, or…
Read moreFourth month in a row of volume decreases for Monex, after a fast start to the year. It is probably just a summer slowdown, similar to the 27% decline in August volumes seen at GMO Click, but a fourth consecutive month of volume declines at Monex Group are potentially worrying. The mid-sized Japan forex…
Read moreJapanese based FX firms continued to see a burst of growth. After seeing leading Japanese FX broker GMO Click report record volumes in April, now comes word that the mid-size brokers in Japan are also doing well. The Monex Group of Japan has reported that spot FX volumes shot up 91% in April, to average ¥242…
Read moreInvast Securities has doubled the number of Mirror Traders in the past nine months. Invast Securities, one of Japan's leading retail FX brokers, has reported a doubling of the number of active Mirror Traders. Invast launched Tradency's Mirror Trader in November 2011, and hit the 20,000 Mirror Trader client mark last July. Now they sit at…
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