As every month (almost) CFTC releases some data that is being reported to it by its FCMs (including forex brokers). From this month we’ll start surveying all brokers who hold ‘retail forex funds’, not just forex brokers per-se as we did up until now. For May 2012 we reported mixed figures, but June 2012 seems to be even more interesting.
- Total retail forex funds grew by $83 million, mainly attributed to FXCM’s increase of $84 million. FXCM commented that this is due to clients making money and depositing more money.
- Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) stopped reporting for obvious reasons.
- Penson sold its business to Knight Capital Group (parent of Hotspot) and too stopped reporting. In turn Knight Execution and Clearing Services is now reporting the same.
- OANDA lost about $23 million in client assets.
- Interactive Brokers, who’ve become the leader of clients profitability in Q2 2012, lost about $9 million.
- Gain Capital and GFT lead the list of brokers who managed to grow customer assets.
| June 2012 | June 2012 | May 2012 | May 2012 | change | change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net Capital | Retail Forex Funds | Net Capital | Retail Forex Funds | Net Capital | Retail Forex Funds | |
| ADM INVESTOR SERVICES INC | 275,200,366 | 107,982 | 270,105,683 | 107,982 | 5,094,683 | 0 |
| ADVANCED MARKETS LLC | 20,362,708 | 812,973 | 20,410,329 | 701,084 | -47,621 | 111,889 |
| ALPARI (US) LLC | 27,819,437 | 16,276,801 | 27,932,207 | 15,302,208 | -112,770 | 974,593 |
| FOREX CAPITAL MARKETS LLC | 58,098,494 | 231,616,792 | 42,731,671 | 147,791,624 | 15,366,823 | 83,825,168 |
| FOREX CLUB LLC | 22,275,271 | 3,630,658 | 23,076,201 | 3,349,961 | -800,930 | 280,697 |
| FX SOLUTIONS LLC | 27,260,354 | 17,903,362 | 26,327,006 | 17,463,768 | 933,348 | 439,594 |
| FXDIRECTDEALER LLC | 26,628,501 | 38,467,569 | 24,931,286 | 40,146,634 | 1,697,215 | -1,679,065 |
| GAIN CAPITAL GROUP LLC | 56,721,650 | 103,835,757 | 41,154,509 | 100,130,419 | 15,567,141 | 3,705,338 |
| GLOBAL FUTURES & FOREX LTD | 70,761,096 | 86,700,108 | 63,862,026 | 85,228,372 | 6,899,070 | 1,471,736 |
| IBFX INC | 27,266,380 | 71,105,574 | 26,250,081 | 70,209,562 | 1,016,299 | 896,012 |
| INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY LLC | 21,717,664 | 15,284,302 | 21,918,038 | 14,431,077 | -200,374 | 853,225 |
| INTERACTIVE BROKERS LLC | 1,397,619,128 | 29,065,585 | 1,442,062,645 | 37,523,627 | -44,443,517 | -8,458,042 |
| KNIGHT EXECUTION AND CLEARING SERVICES | 93,734,591 | 24,934,437 | 93,734,591 | 24,934,437 | ||
| MB TRADING FUTURES INC | 23,546,477 | 31,909,751 | 23,358,991 | 32,931,920 | 187,486 | -1,022,169 |
| OANDA CORPORATION | 144,791,984 | 173,162,133 | 153,489,312 | 196,733,340 | -8,697,328 | -23,571,207 |
| RJ OBRIEN ASSOCIATES LLC | 191,540,198 | 1,990,913 | 194,786,928 | 1,984,070 | -3,246,730 | 6,843 |
| XPRESSTRADE LLC | 22,980,090 | 1,030,608 | 22,986,326 | 1,034,923 | -6,236 | -4,315 |
| Total | 2,508,324,389 | 847,835,305 | 2,425,383,239 | 765,070,571 | 82,941,150 | 82,764,734 |
