US Retail Forex assets down 17% from the end of 2011.

U.S. Retail Forex client asset data for June is now out, courtesy of the CFTC, and it shows the continuing shrinking of the US retail forex market. As per the table below, US retail forex client assets were down more than 1% in the month, now totaling $635.5 million.

This should not be surprising to our readers. One of our recurring themes has been how fairly difficult and expensive-to-follow US forex regulations have priced all but the largest US FX brokers out of the market, providing a lot less choice for US forex traders.

For more on the global Forex industry see the LeapRate-Dow Jones Forex Industry Report.