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Last week we reported on Vantage losing 35 MetaTrader servers over the last couple of months after they cut off their Vanuatu entity.
That information was shared by a kind reader but I figured I’d try to work out a method of finding total server numbers for brokers myself.
I ended up using a slightly ‘janky’ method of doing this. The first data pull looks like this..
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Those numbers were too high for sure. The problem is that brokers use the same servers via multiple entities. When you collect data it’s easy to double-count as a result. So I tried to cut out duplicates. This was the result…
I actually think some of this data is accurate. However, I believe it is dated, potentially from 2023. Alternatively some data is from then and other parts are up to date.
So I tried another method that was more ‘real’ in terms of capturing the most up-to-date information. However, it was worse in the sense that it was harder to identify duplicate servers. Regardless, the results of that are below. Note the ‘Grand Total’ figure is net of server duplicates:
Side note – Roboforex is surprisingly large. This is true in every data set I’ve seen. I guess they must be bigger than I had assumed.
We have also put this data into a new type of bar chart. We believe this will be particularly useful for company owners, who we know like to compare performance against their peers.
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FCA and da footie
A few years ago, I met up with a friend and his dad, who were visiting London from abroad for a wedding. My friend’s dad had lived in London in the 1990s and noted that…
“English people had been anesthetised by gossip magazines, the pub, and the footie.”
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I think that’s what he said anyway. I’d just started my first pint at the pub we’d met at and I was settling in to watch the Liverpool game. It was also hard to concentrate on what he was saying because I was scrolling through Daily Mail Online on my phone while he was talking.
The footie and our industry were in the news last week because the FCA criticised clubs for taking sponsorship from unregulated brands.
This has been true for ages and is also how gambling ads work. I did a small test about 6 months ago and found that more than half of gambling sponsors for Premier League teams weren’t actually available for customers in the UK. This is kind of funny when you think of the criticism clubs get – the general public doesn’t seem aware at all that most gambling firms are advertising to people in Asia, not Brits.
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The same is (kind of) true for forex brokers. You have a mix of locally regulated firms and unregulated firms. I would say the bulk of companies are not trying to advertise to the local market, even if they do have an FCA license.
Looking at the Premier League last season, these unregulated brokers were sponsoring Premier League teams.
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But then you have a couple of crypto firms as well…
Then on top of this you have regulated firms…
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The result? 30% of the Premier League had an unregulated crypto, prop firm or CFD sponsor.
On the ‘legit’ side, 45% of teams have an FCA-regulated sponsor.
When you remove crossovers (ie. teams that have both types of sponsors), then 70% of Premier League teams last year had a sponsor from the trading industry, whether that was in prop, CFDs, or crypto.
CMC Markets looks likely to spend big next season too. Let’s see what happens.
