US FX retail brokers: latest data Dec/2014
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:26 pm
CFTC released monthly financial reports for US futures commission merchants and retail foreign exchange dealers. The following is the state as of Dec/31/2014 (US retail FX brokers only):
Total Amount of Retail Forex Obligation: This represents the total amount of funds at the firm that would be obtained by combining all money, securities and property deposited by a retail forex customer into a retail forex account or accounts, adjusted for the realized and unrealized net profit or loss.
The above figures represent the status quo roughly two weeks before the Swiss army knife - the biggest intraday shock on a major currency in the history of the forex market. Thus I'm quite curious to see how the numbers in the next reporting month (January 2015) turn out for these firms.
Source CFTC data attached:
Total Amount of Retail Forex Obligation: This represents the total amount of funds at the firm that would be obtained by combining all money, securities and property deposited by a retail forex customer into a retail forex account or accounts, adjusted for the realized and unrealized net profit or loss.
The above figures represent the status quo roughly two weeks before the Swiss army knife - the biggest intraday shock on a major currency in the history of the forex market. Thus I'm quite curious to see how the numbers in the next reporting month (January 2015) turn out for these firms.
Source CFTC data attached: