GMO Click, the retail brokerage unit of Japanese IT giant GMO Internet, has published its trading volumes for the month of April 2019, posting some of the weakest monthly results for the exchange all year.
April has been a difficult month for a lot of trading venues. As , the Cboe, Euronext and the (WSX) and a number of other trading providers have reported a slump in volumes for the month.
GMO Click is not immune to this trend, the figures suggest. In fact, despite an uptick in on-exchange foreign exchange (forex) margin accounts via Click 365, the monthly transaction volume was 390,769 contracts.
When comparing this against the previous month, which had a transaction volume of 508,264 contracts, April’s figure has fallen by 23.1 per cent. It is also down on a yearly comparison by 17.3 per cent, as April of 2018 had a monthly transaction volume of 472,436 contracts.
For over-the-counter (OTC) FX margin trading through the FX Neo platform, the results don’t look much better. In the month of April, the total monthly turnover was ¥493.99 billion ($4.5 billion).
Comparing this against March of 2019, which had a monthly turnover of ¥618.4 billion, April’s result has dropped by 20.1 per cent. Against the same month in 2018, last month’s turnover is lower by 27.4 per cent.
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This decline in trading comes despite the fact that the number of customer accounts increased during the month of April. Specifically, FX NEO accounts rose from 598,758 accounts to 605,313 last month.
Earlier today, GMO Internet released its financial results for the first quarter of 2019. As , the profitability of OTC FX trading, which accounts for more than half of net sales and profit for the Internet Finance unit, was weak and was not strong enough to offset a decline in transaction volume.
According to the report, this dip in transaction volume was caused by a sudden fluctuation in exchange rates in the FX market earlier this year. Overall, net sales for the Internet Finance segment came in at ¥6.4 billion ($58.4 million).
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