The number of trades and the volume of dollars just in the US is enormous. I'm wondering about the connection between the amount of dollars that are used for financial transactions and standard correlations to macroeconomic variables; something like correcting M1 for a part being siphoned off to be used almost exclusively for financial transactions.
And if anyone has already done this, can you tell me the study?
You'll find some data in the Triennial Central Bank Survey conducted by the Bank for International Settlements. The latest version is from 2016, the data is freely downloadable.
Triennial Central Bank Survey conducted by the Bank for International Settlements is good source also you may try to get this data from Reuters Eikon system.
There is an open data site. You might find it there.
https://www.data.gov
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