Tag Archives: account profitability
All brokers (except Tradestation) have updated their profitability numbers for the second quarter 2011. What clearly stands out is the drop in profitability experienced by clients of all brokers (with the exception of Advanced Markets – but its numbers are insignificant). On average clients’ profitability dropped 4% since last quarter. When talking to brokers most of them stated the same reason for this – increased volatility during the quarter.
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This is the first profitability report for 2011 and there are several interesting changes since last quarter’s US forex brokers profitability report: first of all IG Markets is no longer in the list as it is no longer operating directly …
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I’ve finally put my hands on FXDD and Advanced Market’s numbers and can now post the full and complete report (only thing still lacking is number of FXDD’s accounts in Q3 but that doesn’t really change anything). All I can …
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This is the second US forex brokers account profitability report after the first ever report I published back in October 2010. This time the report is more full and includes the numbers of FXDD for the first time (although I …
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Today, Monday 18th October 2010, is the day that all US forex brokers must disclose their account profitability and number of non discretionary accounts. I’ve already published Interbank FX’s and FXCM’s numbers here and today I’ve gone ahead and compiled …
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Just got these numbers below from FXCM’s new risk disclosure (not released officially yet). If the numbers are correct this is quite a big surprise for two reasons: 1. FXCM always claims to be NDD and is proud of its …
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Looks like IBFX rushed into publishing its new risk disclosure and by assuming all clients need to approve it prior to CFTC’s official deadline of October 18th: We would like to inform you that the CFTC has officially revised their ruling …
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Yesterday I showed here Interbank FX’s account profitability report which all brokers will now need to publicly submit to the CFTC as par of the new rules. I contacted IBFX asking to explain how exactly they calculate the number of …
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