FXCM Reports Monthly Metrics
FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM) today announced certain key customer trading metrics for August 2015 for its retail and institutional foreign exchange business.
Monthly activities included:
August 2015 Customer Trading Metrics from Continuing Operations (1)
Retail Customer Trading Metrics
- Retail customer trading volume (2) of $329 billion in August 2015, 4% higher than July 2015 and 10% higher than August 2014.
- Average retail customer trading volume (2) per day of $15.7 billion in August 2015, 14% higher than July 2015 and 10% higher than August 2014.
- An average of 594,294 retail client trades per day in August 2015, 11% higher than July 2015 and 51% higher than August 2014.
- Active accounts (3) of 180,722 as of August 31, 2015, an increase of 1,145, or 1%, from July 2015, and an increase of 1,904, or 1%, from August 2014.
- Tradeable accounts (4) of 158,300 as of August 31, 2015, a decrease of 587 accounts, or 0.4% from July 2015, and a decrease of 41,077 accounts, or 21%, from August 2014.
Effective July 1, 2015 Institutional Customers trading via the FastMatch Platform became direct customers of FastMatch. Accordingly, the Company’s trading metrics for July 2015 previously reported have been restated to exclude FastMatch volumes. You can find the restated customer trading metrics on FXCM’s website under: Customer Trading Metrics.
Institutional Customer Trading Metrics
- Institutional customer trading volume (2) of $47 billion in August 2015, 27% higher than July 2015 and 20% lower than August 2014.
- Average institutional customer trading volume (2) per day of $2.3 billion in August 2015, 44% higher than July 2015 and 18% lower than August 2014.
- An average of 34,957 institutional client trades per day in August 2015, 18% higher than July 2015 and 117% higher than August 2014.
More information, including historical results for each of the above metrics, can be found on the investor relations page of the Company’s corporate web site, www.fxcm.com.
This operating data is preliminary and subject to revision and should not be taken as an indication of the financial performance of FXCM Inc. FXCM undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review previously reported operating data. Any updates to previously reported operating data will be reflected in the historical operating data that can be found on the Investor Relations page of the Company’s corporate web site, www.fxcm.com.
(1) Customer Trading Metrics from Continuing Operations excludes discontinued operations of FXCM Japan and FXCM Hong Kong.
(2) Volume that FXCM customers traded in period is translated into US dollars.
(3) An Active Account represents an account that has traded at least once in the previous twelve months.
(4) A Tradeable Account is an account with sufficient funds to place a trade in accordance with FXCM trading policies.
Source: FXCM
