Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) announced today that April 2011trading volume averaged 121,027 contracts per day, down 16% from March 2011.
The gold contract, which is most traded commodity at TOCOM, was up 1.6% to 58, 578 contracts per day. The highest increase recorded in April was the silver contract at 78.8%, averaging 3,480contracts per day. Its year-to-year change is 508.7%. Trading in the majority of other contractsdecreased: platinum was down 31.3% to 13,160 contracts per day; gasoline was down 24.8% to 10,643 contracts per day, kerosene was down 50.9% to 3,119 contracts; and rubber was down 38.6% to 15,506 contracts.
At the end of April, open interest in all listed commodities totaled 300,794 contracts, an increase of 10,520 contracts from the end of March 2011.
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