International Customer Trades Hit 50.8% of Total Volume At TOCOM In January 2016 – An All-Time High

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc announced today that the January 2016 monthly volume of customer trades (combined sell & buy sides) originating overseas was 2,486,232 contracts, accounting for 50.8 percent of the total trades of 4,898,562 contracts. This surpassed the previous record ratio of 49.8 percent with 2,394,206 contracts in August 2015.

The listed commodities that traded overseas most actively were Crude Oil (66.8% of total trade volume), Rubber (60.4%) and Gold Standard (53.8%).