Gain Capital Q1 2012 presentation - interesting facts

Following its Q1 2012 Report yesterday Gain Capital released its quarterly earnings presentation and as usual we can find few interesting facts there:

• Retail Trading Retail Trading In finance, retail trading refers to individual traders, trading through a broker, or on a platform. This can include novice traders and experienced traders. Trading and investing are divided into two categories, retail and institutional. Institutions include investment banks like JP Morgan or Citibank and global central banks like the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. When we talk about retail trading however, we usually are referring to forex trading, but there are retail trade In finance, retail trading refers to individual traders, trading through a broker, or on a platform. This can include novice traders and experienced traders. Trading and investing are divided into two categories, retail and institutional. Institutions include investment banks like JP Morgan or Citibank and global central banks like the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. When we talk about retail trading however, we usually are referring to forex trading, but there are retail trade Read this Term Revenue per Million dropped almost 50% in 2 years from $144.4 in Q1 2010 to $76.4 in Q1 2012
• Average account size is $4,413 growing 33% since Q1 2011
• Total client assets up 15% since Q1 2011
• Average trade size $43,000
• Signed new WLs in Mexico and Turkey
• About to launch CFD offering in June 2012
• Official announcement of hiring Muhammad Rasoul from GFT (you saw it on our Linkedin Group first) as Chief Product Officer
• GTX (institutional volume) up 325% to $468 billion in Q1 2012 comparing to Q1 2011
• 6,872 new retail accounts recruited in Q1 2012

The presentation can be seen here or below:

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