How many retail traders in the markets?

oiltanker

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given 100k [not all will trade] have bothered to register with t2w [english language] one might think there may be 1/4m retailers trading worldwide ?

anyone know?
 
Depends wether you are including punters or just full time or serious retailers?
 
oiltanker said:
given 100k [not all will trade] have bothered to register with t2w [english language] one might think there may be 1/4m retailers trading worldwide ?

anyone know?
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Heavy churn rate to consider as well.

See how good we are at not giving a straight answer?!

Ben
 
people who do it for themselves

including sb.

or as rossini says

including punters
 
So essentially anyone who has ever decided what to trade (and in what direction) for themselves, even if only once?
 
In China alone they are openeing 500K retail trading accounts a month.
 
and excluding those who have jumped [or been pushed ] off tower bridge...

i'm just trying to see if anyone knows the depth of market . is it growing? how fast etc?

i'm guessing if anyone knew a range of numbers they would have said by now. :)
 
oiltanker said:
and excluding those who have jumped [or been pushed ] off tower bridge...

i'm just trying to see if anyone knows the depth of market . is it growing? how fast etc?

i'm guessing if anyone knew a range of numbers they would have said by now. :)
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Honestly I couldn't even be confident of the order of magnitude.
 
It's just a further extension of gambling to them. A sales guy came back from there and he said he saw a group of old women in a back alley sat round a lap-top punting Hang Seng.
 
Honestly I couldn't even be confident of the order of magnitude....

yes i can't find any data on it.
 
i think from recollection that IG index give an indication of accounts they have - or certainly new accounts in the period. See their periodical investor relations
 
yes bits of info about
simon from cs i think said they had 50k accounts.
i suppose t2w might have done some market research.
 
yeah IG group apparently have 56,291 clients as of an unknown recent date.

Although a third of them (such as me!) have never put any money in their account. Some others (such as me!) have more than one account as well.
 
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