Tokyo Commodity Exchange today announced that total trading volume for the first quarter of the fiscal year (April to June) and for the first half of the calendar year (January to June) increased 16.2% and 1.3% year-on-year, respectively.
However, June 2010 trading volume averaged 99,213 contracts per day, down 35.9% from May 2010. The average daily volume in most of the listed commodities decreased from the previous month? gold standard, which is the Exchange’s most traded commodity, decreased by 36.9% from the previous month to 41,847 contracts per day, gold mini decreased by 35.9% to 7,469 contracts, platinum decreased by 41.0% to 17,096 contracts, crude oil decreased by 28.9% to 3,819 contracts, gasoline decreased by 26.9% to 11,104 contracts and rubber decreased by 28.0% to 11,279 contracts. For other listed commodities, please refer to the below table.
On the other hand, open interest in all listed commodities totaled 311,891 contracts at the end of June 2010, an 8.0% increase of 23,121 contracts from the end of the previous month.
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