Japanese retail FX flow data

Product Code:

FEX-GAT-GLO-ALL

Description:

Gaitame is a 50% Tradition-owned retail FX broker. One of the most established Japanese retail FX trading platforms. Headquartered in Tokyo and founded in 2002. Gaitame is regulated by the Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ), which means it operates under Japanese financial laws to provide client protections and ensure operational transparency.

Gaitame’s business model is a principal market making model. Gaitame hedges FX exposures with institutional liquidity providers. Gaitame is considered a reliable and popular choice among retail traders in Japan due to its regulatory oversight, competitive trading conditions, and strong local reputation.

The dataset is a combination of flow and positioning trading data for FX Spot. It is aggregated data comprised of all client trading activity.

Data Source:

Data sourced from Gaitame’s proprietary platform called Next Neo. Trading on Gaitame is available from 7:00 AM Tokyo time (JST) on Monday until 5:00 PM New York time (EST) on Friday. Each trading day is defined as ending at 5:00 PM New York time (EST).

Delivery Method:

Direct Hourly, daily and monthly csv files delivered via SFTP.

Data Frequency:

Data Format: CSV

The dates and times in the filenames are in UTC. Hours are shown in 24-hour format using only the hour (hh). The hour indicates the start of the one-hour trading window; for example, '08' refers to the period from 08:00 to 09:00. Because of the UTC timezone, some hourly files are labelled with Sunday night times, which correspond to early trading hours in Tokyo on the Monday following. File sizes range from less than 3KB for hourly updates to slightly less than 1MB for the largest files (the hourly activity across a month files).

Data Coverage:

• Asset Class: Foreign Exchange ( FX )
• Sub Class: Spot
• Total: 29 Currency pairs

Currency pairs list:

Tradition Data Packages:

Single package FEX-GAT-GLO-ALL, containing all four file types and currency pairs

FAQ:

Question	Answer
Will hourly snaps will be impacted by daylight saving time?	Yes, Since EST observes daylight saving time but Tokyo (JST) does not, during the summer months, Monday’s trading session lasts only 23 hours instead of the usual 24 hours.
Is Historical Data Available?	Yes, since February 2015.

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