The first month of 2019 has provided mixed trading results for foreign exchange (forex) trading providers and the same can be said for CLS Group, and settlement services for FX dealers and institutions, which published the trading activity submitted to the company in January this Wednesday.
During the month of January, the submitted to CLS was $1.784 trillion. When compared to the previous month, which reported an average daily traded volume of $1.556 trillion, this is up by 14.65 per cent.
However, although January’s volume is up on a month-on-month basis, the same can’t be said when comparing the period on an annual basis. In January of 2018, an average daily traded volume of $1.805 trillion was recorded. When comparing the two results, the figure achieved in the first month of 2019 is 1.16 per cent less.
The total volume is based on the trading sections – swap FX, spot FX and FX forward contracts. Taking a look at these sections individually, the average daily traded volume for swap FX was $1.253 trillion in January, the largest of the three trading sections.
Spot FX Trading Volumes Rise in January on CLS
When measuring this against the previous month, the volume achieved in January is 19.11 per cent higher. On a year-on-year comparison, January’s figure is also up by 5.38 per cent.
Spot FX is the second largest segment in terms of trading volume out of the three, ahead of FX forward contracts, and recorded an average daily traded volume of $445 billion in the first month of 2019.
Comparing this to December of 2018, which had an average traded volume of $417 billion, this is up by 6.71 per cent. However, the results don’t hold up as well on a yearly comparison, as January of 2018 had an average traded volume of $513 billion per day, which is 13 per cent higher.
Finishing off with FX forward contracts, the smallest of the three segments, the average daily traded volume is $86 billion. This represents a fall of 1.15 per cent and 16.5 per cent on a monthly and yearly comparison respectively.
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