RE: Consolidation complete - time to start the next move up to the 80 - 90 bracket13 Nov 2023 12:30
Company expecting 17% growth YoY.
74 new clients coming online at the moment.
According to estimates, presently, Africa has about 1.3 million forex traders in total, with Nigeria and South Africa, the continent’s two largest economies, accounting for about 390,000.
According to BusinessTech, a top business news site in South Africa, South Africa’s forex trading volumes including CFDs and spot trading totalled about $2.21 billion per day with a total daily foreign exchange volume of $20.37 billion for all FX instruments in 2019.
Although estimates say Nigeria has 10,000 forex traders more than South Africa, Nigeria with about $315m in daily FX trading volume is greatly behind South Africa.
Kenya in East Africa comes in third place as the largest online forex industry in Africa with its 50,000 active forex traders. Its daily averages for FX volume are estimated to be about $192 million.
In Zimbabwe, there is an estimated 45,000 retail forex traders. Young people in the East African country are turning to the forex industry to make a living as the country’s unemployment rates climb amidst hyperinflation and an unstable domestic currency.