Tokyo Financial Exchange Reports 15% YoY Rise in FX Daily Futures Volume for January

The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) today has reported its aggregated trading metrics for January 2021, showing a significant jump in both MoM and YoY numbers.

TFX has registered a total of 4,801,414 contracts in combined monthly trading volume for all products in January, which is up 14.8% on a monthly basis and an annual increase of 54 percent. The average daily trading volume in January was 240,096.     

The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts at TFX increased by 0.8 percent month on month to 2,260,460 contracts in January. This translates to yearly growth of 15 percent, and the average daily trading volume was 113,025.

In January, the total trading volume of Equity Index Daily Futures contracts was 2,532,527, representing a MoM growth of 31.5% and YoY jump of 128.5%. In terms of the Three-month Euroyen futures, TFX's monthly trading volume dropped by 44.8 percent to 8,427 compared with the previous month. This figure decreases significantly by 80.5 percent when compared to the volume in January 2019.