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Trading Volume in December 2011 and Year 20101

(4 January 2012)

Trading Volume in December 2011

The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 320,454 decreasing 66.5% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 54.5% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average dailyvolume was 15,260 .

[TABLE 1]
Items
December 2011
Trading Volumes
Daily Averages
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts

320,954

15,284

-55.1%

-66.5%

3-month Euroyen futures

320,454

15,260

-54.5%

-66.5%

Options on 3-month Euroyen futures

500

24

-

-

Put

500

24

-

-

Call

0

0

-

-

The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 7,233,569 decreasing 24.8% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 31.3% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average daily trading volume was 328,878 . See the TABLE 2 for the composition of the trading volumes.

[TABLE 2]
Items
December 2011
Trading Volumes
Daily Averages
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Click 365

7,233,569

328,878

-31.3%

-24.8%

USD/JPY

1,065,877

48,449

-41.9%

-64.7%

EUR/JPY

1,522,936

69,224

-36.2%

0.4%

GBP/JPY

447,143

20,325

-12.5%

-58.2%

AUD/JPY

2,311,537

105,070

-29.2%

1.5%

CHF/JPY

62,653

2,848

-11.9%

-15.4%

CAD/JPY

34,339

1,561

-28.2%

-67.6%

NZD/JPY

301,693

13,713

-33.4%

20.7%

EUR/USD

753,824

34,265

-34.4%

-7.2%

GBP/USD

48,679

2,213

-22.4%

-25.5%

Other Currency Pairs

684,888

31,210

-9.2%

58.4%




The total trading volume of Equity Index Daily Futures contracts (Kabu 365) was 53,206 decreasing 7.4% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 31.4% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average daily trading volume was 2,445 . See the TABLE 3 for the composition of the trading volumes.

[TABLE 3]
Items
December 2011
Trading Volumes
Daily Averages
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Kabu 365

53,206

2,445

-31.4%

-7.4%

Nikkei 225 Daily Futures contract

43,420

1,974

-26.6%

-17.3%

DAX® Daily Futures contract

7,271

346

-50.0%

134.4%

FTSE 100 Daily Futures contract

2,046

102

-34.2%

24.8%

FTSE China 25 Margin contracts

469

23

-35.5%

115.1%

The total trading volume was 7,607,729 , decreasing 28.5% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 32.8% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average daily trading volume was 346,607 .

Total Trading Volume in Year 2011

The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 7,201,901 , decreasing 36.1% in comparison to that of the prior year, and the average dailytrading volume was 29,396
In addition, the total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click365) in 2011 was 136,658,356 , increasing 24.3% in comparison to that of the prior year, and the average dailytrading volume was 526,744 .
The total trading volume of Exchange Equity IndexMargin contracts (Kabu 365) was 1,006,156 , increasing 1386.40% in comparison to that of the prior year, and the average dailytrading volume was 3,999 .
See the[TABLE 4] for the compositionof the trading volumes.

[TABLE 4]
Items
Year 2011
Trading Volumes
Daily Averages
Year on Year Change
InterestRate etc. Financial Futures Contracts

7,237,448

29,541

-35.8%

3-month Euroyen futures

7,201,901

29,396

-36.1%

Optionson 3-month Euroyen futures

35,547

145

8786.8%

Put

10,750

44

5275.0%

Call

24,797

101

12298.5%

Click 365

136,658,356

526,744

24.3%

USD/JPY

31,441,164

120,928

14.1%

EUR/JPY

26,769,174

102,958

34.4%

GBP/JPY

11,782,185

45,316

-31.1%

AUD/JPY

41,589,199

159,958

21.3%

CHF/JPY

1,631,739

6,276

342.7%

CAD/JPY

1,156,599

4,448

24.6%

NZD/JPY

5,781,332

22,236

163.2%

EUR/USD

8,246,516

31,717

124.4%

GBP/USD

772,999

2,973

39.1%

Other Currency Pairs

7,487,449

29,934

123.0%

Kabu 365

1,006,156

3,999

1386.4%

Nikkei 225 Daily Futures contract

812,346

3,236

1210.2%

DAX®Margin contracts

100,509

391

2679.6%

FTSE 100 Daily Futures contract

80,189

319

4218.2%

FTSE China 25 Margin contracts

13,112

53

5914.7%


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