Tag Archives: US forex brokers profitability
In Q2 2012 profitability of US forex traders kept dropping albeit the change was less than in Q1 2012: -1.1% and -1.9% respectively. GFT’s profitability ‘plummeted’ meaning it lost its crown to OANDA again and dropped 5 places in this …
Read more
US forex brokers profitability drops in Q1 2012, TradeStation gains most accounts, GFT most profitable
18
2012
Total number of active US forex accounts grew by modest 120 accounts (increase of 0.12%) TradeStation/IBFX merged their figures starting this quarter and showed the biggest increase in number of accounts GFT and OANDA keep battling for the first place in terms …
Read more
Interactive Brokers (IB) publishes forex accounts profitability – is the largest and most ‘profitable’ broker
4
2012
Update: I’ve just confirmed it with IB, their numbers include all clients who’ve traded forex in a given quarter. Since IB has a massive clients base it means that if someone trades equities for a living and made an fx …
Read more
CFTC every month publishes the total amount of liabilities of US forex brokers towards their retail forex clients. Lately we’ve seen that Total Amount of Retail Forex Obligation of US traders grew by $3 million in November 2011, grew by $30 million in …
Read more
US forex brokers profitability report for Q4 2011 shows steep drop in number of US accounts amid increase in traders’ profitability
18
2012
US retail forex industry is now showing obvious signs of slow down with number of non-discretionary retail forex accounts held with US based reporting brokers down to record 97,206. This is the lowest count reported since Q3 2010 when first such report was released.
Read more
US Forex brokers profitability report for Q3 2011 – OANDA back on top, profitability up
17
2011
Finally all US retail forex brokers have updated their profitability stats and the result is surprising – overall profitability is up. This is despite the very volatile quarter forex markets have experienced which typically leads to high losses to forex traders. Apparently forex traders coped with this volatility better than I had expected.
Read more
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.
Read more
