TRADING GAMES
Trading Games is a B2B business conceiving, designing creating trading games.
Our clients are the FX/CFD brokers who wish to offer their traders a broader and, possibly, more interesting choice of user interface.
The FX Market Turnover
‘The most recent data shows the global foreign exchange market is worth $2.73 quadrillion, up from $1.93 quadrillion in 2019, making it the largest financial market globally. It was found in 2022 the average daily turnover had increased by 14% from $6.6 trillion to $7.5 trillion in a three-year period.’
Data & Barchart from CompareForexBrokers.com
FX Market Turnover by Participant
‘Participants in the foreign exchange market are mainly financial institutions such as hedge funds, investment managers, and multinational corporations, along with commercial, investment, and governments.’
‘There are approximately 10 million forex traders in the world today. This figure encompasses a diverse range of participants, from beginner traders who are just getting started to seasoned institutional investors.’
Doughnut & Barchart from CompareForexBrokers.com
Daily Retail Turnover: 6% of $7.5 trillion = $450bn
FX Trader Demographics
‘In terms of age, forex traders are perhaps younger than you’d expect – 27% of forex traders fall into the 18-34 age group. The 35-44 age group represents 28% of traders, while the 45-54 age group accounts for 21% of traders. Only 24% of traders are older than 55, and only 9% are older than 65.’
Data & Barchart from CompareForexBrokers.com
SO WHAT?
The above analysis has two important bearings on the need and indeed the success of Trading Games.
ALL innovatory ideas rely on a small group of the population known as ‘early adopters’. Early adopters are, in effect, the risk takers that will prove that there is a need, or not, of a new product on offer. The early adopters unmindful endorsement is critical. Who are these early adopters? They are generally young men, and what the demographics ultimately show us is that FX Traders, as a group, will have their fair share of early adopters.
There are two types of games:
a) those which require the trader to wait until the expiry of the game before a winner or loser is determined, and
b) those games which can win or lose owing to the path the price takes prior to the expiry of the game.
In an illiquid market it is possible to ‘game’ the market by influencing the price of the game. In a market doing the volumes that FX are there will be little or no chance of the retail trader being able to influence the price.
Alternatively, since the FX/CFD broker will be taking the other side of the trade the trader executes it might be feasible that the broker would want to influence the price of the game. It is dubious that even a large sized retail broker would want to risk such a manouevre.
