Curious to know the Percentage Of traders who lose money trading leveraged products like Forex or Stocks?

The consensus on the streets of forums and Facebook groups are a range of 80% – 95%.

But what do brokers report?

Thanks to the 2008 European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) regulation that requires brokers in the EU to display the percentage of traders who lose money within their risk notice – we can know (with a grain of salt) how many traders make or lose money.

We visited and extracted the percentage of traders who lose money from the websites of 100+ brokers and review sites.

We looked at brokers under the ESMA/EU regulation – all regulated brokers under FCA, CySEC, BaFin, FINMA, among others with offices within the European Union.

So, What Is The Percentage Of Traders Who Lose Money trading?

79% of traders lose money trading leveraged products – an average of the 104 brokers we looked at.

40% brokers report more than 80% of retail traders lose money.

54% brokers report 70% – 80% traders lose money

6% brokers say less than 70% of traders lose money.

100% brokers report more than half (50%) of their traders lose money.

If we visualize the percentage of brokers with losing percentages of traders we get this chart.

Here is the data arranged in alphabetical order.

	Forex Broker	Percentage
1	24option	83%
2	4xCube	89%
3	AccentForex	79%
4	ActivTrades	76%
5	Admiral Markets	79%
6	ADS Securities	83%
7	Alpari	77%
8	AMarkets	86%
9	Arum Capital	73%
10	Askobid	79%
11	ATC Brokers	81%
12	ATFX	67%
13	AvaTrade	79%
14	Blackwell Global	55%
15	CIM Bank	75%
16	CMC Markets	79%
17	CMSTrader	82%
18	Colmex Pro	88%
19	Core Spreads	70%
20	CPT Markets UK	82%
21	DF Markets	79%
22	DIF Broker	80%
23	Dukascopy	77%
24	easyMarkets	75%
25	Eightcap	80%
26	ETFinance	81%
27	eToro	75%
28	ETX Capital	76%
29	EverFX	78%
30	eXcentral	76%
31	Exness	83%
32	FBS	79%
33	FIBO Group	82%
34	Fidelis	84%
35	Finexo	79%
36	FinFX PRO	88%
37	FOREX.com	72%
38	Forex4you	81%
39	Fort Financial Services	77%
40	FP Markets	76%
41	FreshForex	79%
42	FX Giants	87%
43	FXCC	66%
44	FXCM	79%
45	FXDD	75%
46	FXFlat	80%
47	FxGlory	85%
48	FxGrow	75%
49	FxNet	73%
50	FXOpen	60%
51	FxPro	76%
52	FXTM	80%
53	GKFX	81%
54	GO Markets	82%
55	Grand Capital	88%
56	Hantec Markets	86%
57	HotForex	74%
58	HugosWay	82%
59	HYCM	81%
60	IC Markets	79%
61	IFC Markets	85%
62	IG Markets	76%
63	INGOT	76%
64	InstaForex	81%
65	Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.	76%
66	Investous	81%
67	IronFX	73%
68	JustForex	82%
69	LCG	80%
70	LegacyFX	88%
71	Libertex	83%
72	LiteForex	86%
73	Marketiva	87%
74	Markets.com	79%
75	MultiBank	76%
76	Noble Trading	78%
77	NordFX	67%
78	NPBFX	78%
79	Oanda	74%
80	OctaFX	76%
81	Olymp Trade	83%
82	Orbex	79%
83	Pepperstone	79%
84	Plus500	81%
85	PrimeXBT	79%
86	RoboForex	88%
87	ROinvesting	86%
88	Saxo Bank	79%
89	Score Priority	73%
90	Stratton Markets	83%
91	Swissquote Bank	79%
92	TeleTrade	74%
93	Tickmill	70%
94	Trade360	68%
95	Tradeview Forex	89%
96	Trading.com	80%
97	TusarFX	79%
98	UFXMarkets	76%
99	USG	90%
100	Vantage FX	79%
101	Varengold	78%
102	Windsor Brokers	76%
103	XM	79%
104	XTB	80%

So, if you are wondering What percentage of stock traders lose money?

Or, What percentage of forex traders lose money?

It is clear; a greater percentage (79%+) of traders lose money.

We can’t bury our heads in the sand to know that most people dabbling with forex trading or stock trading – retail traders – shouldn’t be.

Trading in leveraged products can make you rich if you know what you are doing, but it leaves most who attempt it poorer.