Are US Forex Retail Traders Giving Up Forex?

By Lawrence

Latest data from CFTC is telling us that the drastic margin requirement increase is working – the retail traders are moving away from the US regulated brokers.

US Retail client assets to Apr2014

Source: Leaprate.com

And the breakdown of the pie among the regulated brokerages.

US retail FX client assets Apr14

Source: Leaprate.com

 

To sum it up – the big firms winning, small firms losing and US forex retail traders disappearing.

Everyone knows making forex trading in US uncompetitive against future trading has been the agenda. It is not really about protecting the retail traders at all. Similar policies are put in place in Canada and Japan.

In the name of protecting the most inapt people from trading forex, the normal retail traders are stripped their choices of varying classes of trading vehicles.

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