CFTC retail forex obligations ease to $469.96 million in August 2026
Retail forex obligations reported to the CFTC totaled $469,962,846 at end-August 2026, slightly below July and below a year earlier. Six firms held obligations within a reporting population of 75 firms.
The Total Amount of Retail Forex Obligation stood at $469,962,846 at end-August 2026, according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s monthly financial report. That was slightly below July’s $471,577,840 and below the $506,576,146 reported in August 2025. The latest reading indicates a modest monthly easing in reported customer-account balances, rather than a sharp reversal.
The recent history puts that decline in perspective. Obligations remained above June 2026’s $462,305,757, the lowest monthly observation between August 2025 and August 2026. July’s recovery from that level was therefore only partly reversed in August. However, the latest total was also below March’s $488,591,107, suggesting that the summer rebound had not restored balances to their earlier-2026 level.
Six firms account for the reported obligations
The August report covered 75 reporting firms, compared with 74 in July and 63 a year earlier. Six firms reported retail forex obligations in each of those periods. The broader reporting population therefore increased without an increase in the number of firms holding these obligations. That distinction matters: growth in the report’s firm count is not itself evidence of expanding retail forex customer balances.
GAIN CAPITAL GROUP LLC accounted for the largest listed balance, at $204,159,954, followed by OANDA CORPORATION at $131,378,010. The remaining obligations were reported by CHARLES SCHWAB FUTURES AND FOREX LLC, TASTYFX LLC, INTERACTIVE BROKERS LLC and TRADING.COM MARKETS INC. These balances describe the composition of the reported total; they are not rankings by trading volume or measures of the firms’ overall businesses.
The obligation measure is a month-end stock of money, securities and property in retail forex customer accounts, adjusted for realized and unrealized net profit or loss. Consequently, the lower total cannot be read as an equivalent withdrawal of customer funds or a decline in monthly trading activity. It is neither broker revenue nor a customer count.
Coverage is limited to CFTC-reporting FCMs, RFEDs and FCMRFDs, rather than the entire U.S. or global retail forex market. The CFTC also states that it does not revise posted figures for later amended filings, so these comparisons reflect the published reports.
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