You know how casinos lay it all out, they're taking a gamble just like us? But get this, brokers might just be outdoing them in their own sly way. I’m saying brokers might actually be worse. Why? They’ve got this neat, little setup where they rake in their shares through bid-offer spreads and commissions, all while carrying zero market risk. It’s like having their cake and eating it too, but in secret. We’re all out here rolling the dice, while brokers are the house, cashing in risk-free. What’s your take? Are brokers just silently stacking the deck, snagging a surefire win with every trade we make?
Of course brokers are making money on every trade you make. That’s their business. If they were gambling on trades to make money, then it would be safe to assume that at some point they would lose big possibly effecting the balances of their customers. It’s easier to take a small piece of all the action then to try and gamble for a bigger piece. That benefits nobody.
You are completely right and I agree with you, having traded forex myself, I do not think brokers risk or lose any money, they are simply middle men connecting traders to the financial market, just the same way crypto exchanges, both centralized and decentralized are connecting crypto traders to the crypto currency market, they make money on every trade carried out on their platform, whether it be a buy or a sell, and it doesn't matter whether the trader is trading at a loss, brokers will always take their cut in the form of trading fees, they also make money in when traders withdraw, the same way crypto exchanges charge $1 to withdraw usdt (depending on the chain) and when you check the fee it took to process the transaction on the Blockchain, you discover it's not even up to $0.1 for some Blockchain network.
Brokers charge what is called withdrawal commission.
So, in the end, brokers seem never a risk a thing, but are on a straight up profit making, doesn't matter how much a trader loses, broker make their money as long as the trader is carrying out any form of transactions on the platform.
The only area where I think brokers spend their money is on the government registration and their operational licenses, license renewals, regulation fees and so on, and as well, to pay their workers.