Disliked{quote} Yep, could well be that we in Retail Forex are in our own "ring-fenced" world away from the real currency exchanging that goes on externally betwen banks and large companies etc. Maybe those Liquidity Providers to our Brokers would take ALL our trades, each and every one buy OR sell, and just hang on to them until the spikes and dips shake out weak hands and they can snatch a cut off the top of the whole pot (ie the LPs may not be after every retail dollar just a certain % cut whatever that may be). This is not so much a malicious act imo,...Ignored
9. Retail Forex trading – that is to say, trading that is done by individuals, accounts for only 5.5% of the entire Forex market. Large institutions are still getting the biggest slice of the cake – thankfully, it’s an enormous cake
19. The most popular trading platform is still the classic MT4, which is used by 85% of traders. The second most popular platform is the MT5, which is used by only 6% of traders.
20. 70% of trades use a live account, while the other 30% are using demo accounts.
21. 72% of forex traders have no prior experience in trading in other markets.
22. There are approximately 10 million forex traders in the world today.
23. Of those 10 million, 3.2 million are in Asia, and 1.5 million each in Europe and North America.
24. There 1.3 million traders in Africa, almost a million in the Middle East, and 600,000 in South America. Central America has around 335,000 traders, while Oceania has 190,000.
25. As for specific countries, the UK, as a hub of forex trading, is the leader in this regard, having more than 280,000 online traders.
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