Tokyo Commodity Exchange today announced that March trading volume averaged 99,959 contracts per day, down 21.0 % from February 2010. The average daily volume in gold standard, which is the Exchange’s most traded commodities, decreased by 34.6% from the previous month to 42,735 contracts per day, gold mini decreased by 32.1% to 8,348 contracts, and gasoline decreased by 8.0% to 8,733 contract.
On the other hand, platinum increased by 4.3% to 17,556 contracts and rubber increased by 2.1% to 12,359 contracts. At the end of March, open interests of all listed commodities totaled to 297,091 contracts, an increase of 15,045 contracts from the end of the previous month.
The annual trading volume for fiscal 2009 (April ‘09March ’10) was 28,032,662 contracts, down by 24.7%, averaging 114,888 contracts per day.
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