LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FXCM Group, LLC (“FXCM Group’ or ‘FXCM’), the leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading and related services, is today releasing its data of most popular instruments for the month of May in its Single Share CFD and proprietary Stock Basket product lines.

FXCM offers fractional single share trading with no commission fees* on leading companies from the US, UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong and Australia. FXCM’s stock basket products combine the shares of multiple companies from one sector into a single tradeable instrument. The company currently boasts a portfolio of 16 stock baskets. The list of companies and weightings is available on FXCM’s stock basket website (https://www.fxcm.co.uk/stock-baskets/).

Inflation is raging with the Consumer Price Index increasing to 8.6% in May from the same month a year ago, its highest level since 1981 in the US, resulting in volatile equity markets.

During May, Paypal joined the top three most traded stocks for the first time along with perennials Tesla and Apple. Chinese EV company BYD Co jumped to 4th place, and along with Advanced Micro Devices, a leader in the semiconductor industry, attracted more trading interest than conventional tech giants, Alibaba, Meta, and Netflix.

On the stock basket side, as the crypto industry took some large hits in May, we saw interest in the Crypto Stock basket increase as it ranked in 2^nd place. This was just below FAANG in a month that also saw China Ecommerce regain its top five position as many of its component companies’ prices rebounded during the month.

Volume Rank	Monthly Rank Change	Company	Symbol
1	–	Tesla Inc	TSLA.us
2	↑7	PayPal	PYPL.us
3	↑3	Apple	AAPL.us
4	↑53	BYD Co	BYDC.hk
5	↓1	Amazon.com	AMZN.us
6	↑24	Advanced Micro Devices Inc	AMD.us
7	↓4	Alibaba	BABA.us
8	↓6	Meta Platforms Inc	FB.us
9	↑1	NVIDIA	NVDA.us
10	↓2	Netflix Inc	NFLX.us

Volume Rank	Monthly Rank Change	Sector	Symbol
1	–	Big US Tech	FAANG
2	↑3	Crypto Stocks	CRYPTOSTOCK
3	–	US Banks	US.BANKS
4	↑5	China Ecommerce	CHN.ECOMM
5	↓1	Big China Tech (HK)	ATMX
6	↓4	China Tech	CHN.TECH
7	↑3	Biotech	BIOTECH
8	–	Cannabis	CANNABIS
9	↑2	Esports & Gaming	ESPORTS
10	↑4	Work From Home	WFH

Past Performance and popularity is not an indicator of future results.

Rank is derived from FXCM Client Volume

*FXCM can be compensated in several ways, which includes but are not limited to adding a mark-up to the spreads it receives from its liquidity providers, adding a mark-up to rollover, etc. Commission-based pricing is applicable to Active Trader account types.

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About FXCM:

FXCM is a leading provider of online foreign exchange (FX) trading, CFD trading, and related services. Founded in 1999, the company’s mission is to provide global traders with access to the world’s largest and most liquid market by offering innovative trading tools, hiring excellent trading educators, meeting strict financial standards, and striving for the best online trading experience in the market. Clients have the advantage of mobile trading, one-click order execution and trading from real-time charts. In addition, FXCM offers educational courses on FX trading and provides trading tools, proprietary data and premium resources. FXCM Pro provides retail brokers, small hedge funds and emerging market banks access to wholesale execution and liquidity, while providing high and medium frequency funds access to prime brokerage services via FXCM Prime. FXCM is a Leucadia Company.

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CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.

66% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.

You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

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CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.

73% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.

You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

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