GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) today reported operating metrics for the month of September 2014. The results show an excellent month, in-line with the rest of the industry as a September to remember during this otherwise muted year. Gain’s retail platforms posted it’s highest volume number on record as it blew past the $200 billion mark. Total volumes for September shot up to $680 billion from August’s $528 billion, for a total increase across retail and institutional of 28.8%. Check out the graph and all the detailed numbers below:
Retail metrics
- Retail OTC trading volume of $238.9 billion, an increase of 30.4% from August 2014 and an increase of 83.9% from September 2013.
- Average daily retail OTC trading volume of $10.9 billion, an increase of 24.4% from August 2014 and an increase of 75.5% from September 2013.
- Active retail OTC accounts2 of 93,779, an increase of 0.9% from August 2014 and a decrease of 9.8% from September 2013.
- Futures contracts of 650,449, an increase of 26.9% from August 2014 and an increase of 77.3% from September 2013.
- Average daily futures contracts of 29,566, an increase of 21.1% from August 2014 and an increase of 54.0% from September 2013.
- Total funded accounts of 132,021, an increase of 0.6% from August 2014 and an increase of 3.7% from September 2013.
Institutional metrics
Total institutional trading volume of $441.5 billion, an increase of 28.1% from August 2014 and an increase of 58.3% from September 2013.
Average daily institutional volume of $20.1 billion, an increase of 22.3% from August 2014 and an increase of 51.1% from September 2013.
GTX trading volume of $404.4 billion, an increase of 25.7% from August 2014 and an increase of 51.3% from September 2013.
Average daily GTX volume of $18.4 billion, an increase of 20.0% from August 2014 and an increase of 44.4% from September 2013.
Historical metrics and financial information can be found on the Company’s investor relations website.