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Trading Volume in August 2012

(3 September 2012)

 The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 430,016 decreasing 58.5% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and decreasing 41.3% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 18,696 .

[TABLE 1]
Items
August 2012
Trading Volume
Daily Average
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Total of Interest Rate Futures contracts

430,016

18,696

-41.3%

-59.4%

3-month Euroyen futures

430,016

18,696

-41.3%

-58.5%

Options on 3-month Euroyen futures

-

-

-

-100.0%

Put

-

-

-

-

Call

-

-

-

-100.0%

Six-month Euroyen LIBOR futures

0

0

-

-

  The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 3,715,029 decreasing 69.7% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and decreasing 12.5% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 161,523 . See the TABLE 2 for the composition of the trading volume.

[TABLE 2]
Items
August 2012
Trading Volume
Daily Average
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Click 365

3,715,029

161,523

-12.5%

-69.7%

USD/JPY

387,294

16,839

-11.8%

-89.0%

EUR/JPY

1,121,502

48,761

-18.8%

-39.2%

GBP/JPY

293,152

12,746

11.0%

-65.9%

AUD/JPY

942,846

40,993

-16.6%

-74.2%

CHF/JPY

33,979

1,477

13.9%

-91.2%

CAD/JPY

27,200

1,183

19.9%

-74.5%

NZD/JPY

235,115

10,222

-11.1%

-44.1%

EUR/USD

209,078

9,090

-5.6%

-58.2%

GBP/USD

15,755

685

-27.2%

-72.1%

Other Currency pairs

449,108

19,527

-4.7%

-51.1%




  The total trading volume of Equity Index Daily Futures contracts (Kabu 365) was 94,100 decreasing 8.6% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and decreasing 11.9% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 4,094 . See the TABLE 3 for the composition of the trading volume.

[TABLE 3]
Items
August 2012
Trading Volume
Daily Average
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Kabu 365

94,100

4,094

-11.9%

-8.6%

Nikkei 225 Daily Futures contract

84,815

3,688

-12.4%

9.9%

DAX® Daily Futures contract

8,018

349

-7.6%

-45.8%

FTSE 100 Daily Futures contract

989

45

-1.0%

-89.6%

FTSE China 25 Margin contracts

278

12

-25.3%

-80.5%

The total trading volume was 4,239,145 , decreasing 68.4% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and decreasing 16.6% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 184,313 .

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