Official: Volumes dented

The relatively high levels of volatility may be one reason why volumes have plummeted, even if a more convincing argument for option use can easily be made

I love a headline full of hyperbollox (Do you mean hyperbole?, Ed). A raft of data confirms what we all know: there has been a significant fall in turnover in FX everywhere. In New York, the Foreign Exchange Committee’s (FXC’s) 10th survey of North American FX volume found that the average daily volume in total over-the-counter FX instruments – including spot transactions, outright forwards, FX swaps and options – totalled $527 billion, a decrease of 26.3%

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