How many active traders are there in the world? What OS do they use?

[bearmace]

That data was collected based strictly upon the visitor data on this website over the past year.

The visitors are primarily US-based, I assume? Do you have the broad geographical location of this OS data trend by any chance? I'm trying to design a trading product and a large segment of my client base would be international forex traders.

 

[Baron]

No, that data is global data, not primarily US.

 

[Overnight]

Baron is laughing all the way to the bank with a Linux variant. Sneaky smart I tell you!

 

[beerntrading]

That data was collected based strictly upon the visitor data on this website over the past year.

What's the data set here...are we talking unique visitors, page views, sessions created?...


And to the question, I presume you mean speculative traders? Otherwise, that would include nearly everyone who engages in economic activity.

 

[truetype]

What's the data set here...are we talking unique visitors, page views, sessions created.

Yeesh. It's only an approximation anyway -- ET visitors are only a tiny subset of the universe of global traders.

 

[Baron]

What's the data set here...are we talking unique visitors, page views, sessions created?...

Unique visitors.

 

[Baron]

Yeesh. It's only an approximation anyway -- ET visitors are only a tiny subset of the universe of global traders.

Tiny indeed but I think its a pretty good cross section of the overall trader population.

 

[Scataphagos]

I'm been stumped over how to find an accurate estimation of how many active traders (in all assets) exists in the world;

Crazy question.

If you're going to use the term " active trader", then you need to set some parameters.

IMV.... We're ALL traders. Some short term, some longer term, some very long term.

The only ones market participants who are not traders (actual investors) are the ones who inherit stock from grandma and leave it to their kids in their estate.

 

[DeltaRisk]

Crazy question.

If you're going to use the term " active trader", then you need to set some parameters.

IMV.... We're ALL traders. Some short term, some longer term, some very long term.

The only ones market participants who are not traders (actual investors) are the ones who inherit stock from grandma and leave it to their kids in their estate.

Less than ten thousand. It's not 95%, it's 0.001. Retail has almost no chance.

Inheritance is the reason most of them decide to trade. Ironically, the richest I've met have never been able to adapt.
I've met many wealthy, but for some reason their kids can never replicate.

You can take the Kennedy family for example. Why aren't they worth 80 billion now? Old joe had the fix, but markets change.

 

[ajacobson]

Worldwide ? Retail ? 200,000 + mainland China and Hong Kong. South Korea another 20 - 25,000. India more than 20,000. Myramar another few hundred. Singapore a few thousand.