Japan mulls cutting OTC forex leverage to 1:10

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The Japanese Financial Services Agency, which among other things regulates the activities of the Japanese OTC forex brokerages, is mulling to cut the max leverage offered to retail clients to 1:10.
This would be the third cutting of the leverage since 2008, when the cap was set at 1:50, followed by another halving to 1:25 several years later. Currently the 1:25 leverage is among the lowest, along with that in Turkey, which recently was set at 1:10.




Re: Japan mulls cutting OTC forex leverage to 1:10

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LazarR wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:36 am Fully agree with you, FrancoisT. But from my perspective, more investors on the market would potentially mean more funds to be split between the winners. Call me greedy but that is how I see it :D
I believe the idea behind is to move out traders with small accounts and with no or small knowledge about the market.
In fact what would be most likely happen with this step, Japanese brokers will loose volumes and clients :)


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