Enhancement of Trading Tools and Customer Support

「We accept requests for changes to our trading tools on an ongoing basis. Most recently, LION Chart plus+ has been upgraded and made even more convenient, with improvements such as making trendlines easier to draw and enabling customers to view their positions.」

「In LION FX C2, the company added a risk-reward display function that allows users to see at a glance, before entering a trade, the potential loss and take-profit ranges centered on the clicked point.」

「The Group also worked to meet customer needs by adding real-time volatility and a function showing the Group's internal position ratios to "LION Chart Plus+," creating an environment for visual comparisons with other traders, and adding to "LION FX C2" a swap simulation function, a calendar-format function for checking daily returns, and a measurement tool that makes it easy to determine the price range and number of candlesticks.」

「The Group also worked to meet customer needs by adding to "LION Chart Plus+" in June 2025 a function that provides a real-time visual view of volatility, creating an environment in which customers can immediately identify moving currency pairs, and adding a customer sentiment function showing the Group's internal position ratios, enabling visual comparisons with other traders' views. In July 2025, it added to "LION FX C2" a swap simulation function for setting targets for swap trading and a function for checking daily returns in calendar format.」

「The Group worked to meet customer needs by adding to "LION Chart Plus+" in October 2024 a function that enables automated trading and backtesting using combinations of multiple technical indicators, and implementing smartphone support for reverse-position orders in March 2025, creating an environment in which customers can respond immediately even when market trends move contrary to their expectations.」

「To enable customers to check U.S. Treasury charts on smartphones, the Group added U.S. Treasury charts to "LION Chart Plus+ Mobile" and "LION FX5." It also introduced the "LION FX Watch" Apple Watch app in August 2024 to meet customer needs for easily checking exchange rates and charts while traveling or at work.」

「In response to the circumstances described above, we worked to meet customer needs by releasing a smartphone version of LION Signal Map, which automatically verifies the effectiveness of technical indicators to support customers with limited trading experience; adding to LION Chart Plus+ a function that automatically places orders in line with technical trading signals; and introducing the Android version of the new feature-rich LION FX5 app, with PC-level functionality, in preparation for the return of dormant customers to trading. We also added High-Interest Currency News, which provides information focused on high-interest currencies, to the trading information, and strengthened security by introducing two-factor authentication, a more robust login method than those previously used.」

「The Group focused on improving its various trading tools to implement customer requests and accommodate a range of trading environments, including introducing its official automated trading tool and adding a function that allows customers to close positions with a swipe on a smartphone.」

「We worked to meet customer needs, including by adding to LION Chart Plus+ a function that automatically places orders in line with technical trading signals, and have continued to run a wide variety of campaigns each month to encourage trading activity.」

「The Group worked to expand and improve the trading environment in line with customer requests by upgrading "LION Chart Plus+" to enable advanced chart analysis on small smartphone screens, improving the functions of "LION Web," a browser-based trading tool that requires no app installation, adding "pip profit/loss order" to the settlement order for closing positions in each trading tool, and adding a function to display pending orders on charts.」

「We expanded the trading environment by upgrading LION Chart Plus+ to enable PC-level chart analysis even on small smartphone screens, adding features to LION Web, a browser-based trading tool that requires no app installation, and adding "pip profit/loss order" to the settlement sequence used when closing opposing positions on each trading tool.」

「In addition, anticipating increased trading opportunities as a result of the weaker yen, we actively communicated via email, social media and other channels about the convenient features added to the app through previous upgrades, as well as support features for beginners.」

「The Group also worked to improve the trading environment by upgrading "LION Chart Plus+" so that customers could perform PC-level analysis as smartphone use increased.」

「In response to requests from large-volume customers who trade large quantities in a single transaction, the Group began offering "large-volume currency pairs" in March 2022 for 6 major currencies, including USD/JPY and GBP/JPY, with higher maximum order sizes and position limits per transaction.」

「Since December 2020, we have offered LION Tab, which focuses exclusively on the features essential for FX trading and is simple and easy to use, allowing customers to master it without an operating manual or other documentation. In October 2021, we released LION Tab mini, an enhanced version of LION Tab for smartphones.」

「We have enabled each customer to customize their trading environment to suit their individual needs, from FX beginners to advanced traders, through successive detailed upgrades, including changes and additions to trading-tool displays and functions, news-ticker display speed, alert-sound frequency settings, and text-color and font-size settings. We also focused on upgrading our smartphone app so that customers could trade comfortably even when unable to use a PC.」

「The Group worked quickly to implement customer requests by adding functions tailored to customer needs to its trading tools to improve convenience, and upgrading chart displays for each device to optimize readability.」

「The Group strengthened its tablet-focused trading tools by completely revamping its iPad-only app and releasing "LION Tab," a tablet-specific trading tool.」

「The Group also worked to encourage customers to trade by responding quickly to their requests for trading tools and implementing them.」

「Continuing from the previous fiscal year, the Group worked to review its advertising methods and accelerate the implementation of customer requests for trading tools and other services.」

「Against this backdrop, as initiatives to prevent trading volume from declining even in a low-volatility environment, the Group released an FX calculator that enables rapid money management in line with volatility and a 10-second candlestick chart that makes it easier to identify opportunities on small price movements and can be used for short-term trading.」

「As an initiative to prevent trading volume from declining even in a low-volatility environment, it released a 10-second candlestick chart that makes it easier to identify opportunities on small price movements and can be used for short-term trading.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group released LION Web, a tool that does not require installation and specializes in advanced technical and chart analysis, following LION Basic, a new tool specializing in scalping that enables effective trading on small price movements. It also released an FX calculator to enable rapid money management in line with volatility. In addition, it made multiple upgrades, including to chart functions, so that customers could easily conduct advanced chart analysis comparable to that available on a PC using a smartphone app.」

「Against this backdrop, to secure stable earnings even in a low exchange-rate volatility environment, the Group expanded the regions in which it holds small-group seminars once a month. At the same time, it reviewed seminar content and strengthened initiatives to improve customers' knowledge, willingness to trade and profit margins. It also added Dow Jones news feeds to enhance the provision of economic news and other information important to customers' trading decisions.」

「Against this backdrop, to secure stable revenue even in a low-volatility foreign exchange market, the Group continued holding monthly small-group seminars and strengthened efforts to review their content, improve customers' knowledge and willingness to trade, and increase profit margins.」

「Against this backdrop, to secure stable earnings even in a low exchange-rate volatility environment, the Group reviewed the content of its small-group seminars held once a month as an ongoing initiative to reduce customer losses. It also revamped its smartphone app and released an app with PC-equivalent execution speed and operability, while upgrading its existing systems.」

「The Group upgrades its tools approximately once a month based on customer feedback submitted through the suggestion box on its website.」

「In addition, it continued to implement customer requests, including providing an app that enables customers to review their trading activity, an allowable spread function that prevents orders from being placed when spreads widen beyond expectations, and adding order functionality to LION Chart Plus+, which supports a wide range of technical indicators.」

「In addition, to meet diverse customer needs, it released the new trading tools LION FX C2 and LION FX HTML5 Edition, and also upgraded its existing systems.」

「The Group sought to improve customer satisfaction in every respect by continuously upgrading its trading systems to meet customer needs, providing information useful for FX trading through Nikkei CNBC's "FX Economic Research Institute," and running campaigns including gifts of osechi, one of the campaigns that had previously received a favorable response.」

「As specific additions to system tools and market information, the Group released "LION Analysis Notebook" in July, a tool that easily analyzes users' own trading based on their past transaction data, and began broadcasting "FX Economic Research Institute," an FX information program providing information useful for FX trading, on Nikkei CNBC in August.」

「To improve customer satisfaction, we continued upgrading our trading systems in line with customer needs and conducted campaigns, including a customer-participation real-trading battle campaign and a listing-anniversary campaign.」

「The Group upgrades its tools approximately once a month based on customer feedback submitted through the suggestion box on its website.」