Both Japanese FX and Binary Options Volumes Down in February, FFAJ Reports

[kreslik.news]

The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) released today both its over-the-counter (OTC) retail FX margin trading and binary options figures for February 2017. The data shows that the two popular forms of OTC trading went thorough a cooldown during the month compared with a very strong performance in January.


In terms of its OTC retail FX volumes, the FFAJ yielded $3.305 trillion (¥380.5 trillion) in February, down from $5.0 trillion (¥561.5 trillion) in January 2017 – a drop of just over 32% month-over-month. On a yearly comparison the Japanese FX volumes of February seem ... (read more)