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Trading Volume in August 2009

(1 September 2009)

 In August 2009, the trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 1,075,696, decreasing 44.3% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and increasing 2.1% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average daily volume was51,224.

【TABLE 1】

Items

August 2009

 

Trading Volumes

Daily Averages

Change on Previous Month

Year on Year Change

Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts

1,075,696

51,224

2.0%

-46.9%

 

3-month Euroyen futures

1,075,696

51,224

2.1%

-44.3%

 

Options on 3-month Euroyen futures

-

-

-

-

 

 

Put

-

-

-

-

 

 

Call

-

-

-

-

  The total trading volume of Exchange Forex Margin contracts (Click 365) was 5,572,153, increasing 54.2% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 10.3% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average daily trading volume was 265,341. See the table 2 for the composition of the trading volumes.

【TABLE 2】

Items

August 2009

Trading Volumes

Daily Averages

Change on Previous Month

Year on Year Change

Click 365

5,572,153

265,341

-10.3%

54.2%

 

USD/JPY

1,345,721

64,082

-2.0%

23.9%

 

EUR/JPY

722,481

34,404

-21.2%

67.5%

 

GBP/JPY

1,463,406

69,686

-8.9%

155.2%

 

AUD/JPY

1,635,569

77,884

-10.7%

102.1%

 

CHF/JPY

10,070

480

1.9%

-81.7%

 

CAD/JPY

52,202

2,486

22.7%

-40.0%

 

NZD/JPY

119,978

5,713

-23.4%

-79.0%

 

EUR/USD

51,942

2,473

-22.2%

-

 

GBP/USD

26,116

1,244

-28.7%

-

 

Other Currency Pairs

144,668

6,889

-16.5%

-

  The total trading volume in August 2009 was6,647,849, increasing 17.8% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 8.5% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average daily trading volume was316,564.

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