Brokerage KPIs: the numbers every forex broker should track

Start with the client journey

Every brokerage KPI answers a question about one stage of the client journey. Read them in order and you can see exactly where people drop out.

Marketing KPIs: what a lead really costs

• Cost per lead (CPL). Your spend on a campaign divided by the number of leads it produced in the same period.
• Leads by source. How many leads each campaign or page brought. Without a source on every lead, you cannot tell which channels work.
• Cost per first-time deposit. The same spend divided by the first-time deposits that came from that source.

Cost per lead on its own can mislead. A cheap source that never converts costs more in practice than a dearer one that does, so always read it together with conversion by source.

Sales KPIs: from lead to funded client

• Conversion rate. The share of leads who become funded clients: first-time deposits divided by the leads received in the same period. Track it overall, by source and by agent.
• First-time deposits (FTDs). The number of clients who make their first deposit in a period. For most sales desks this is the headline number.
• Speed to first contact. The time between sign-up and the first real conversation. Interest fades quickly, so slow contact quietly lowers every number after it.
• Verification completion. The share of registered clients who finish KYC verification. A weak result can point to an unclear process rather than weak leads.
• Leads without follow-up. Leads with no owner, no recent comment or an old status. This simple count catches leads falling through the cracks.

The sales desk owns these numbers, and team leaders should review them per agent.

Retention KPIs: do funded clients stay?

• Active traders. Clients who placed at least one trade in a period. Choose your definition once, write it down and keep it, because changing it makes old and new numbers impossible to compare.
• Retention rate. Of the clients active at the start of a period, the share who are still active at the end.
• Churn. The opposite of retention: the share who stopped. Clients who have gone quiet are your early warning.
• Repeat deposits. How many funded clients deposit again. It is a useful sign of trust in your service.
• Net deposits. Total deposits minus total withdrawals in a period. Read it alongside activity, and never slow a withdrawal to protect this number.

For a fairer view, compare clients who joined in the same month, often called a cohort, instead of one overall figure. Our guide to client retention for forex brokers explains how to improve these numbers.

Operations KPIs: the numbers clients feel

Service KPIs rarely come up in marketing meetings, yet clients feel them every day, and they shape retention directly.

• Payment processing time. The time from a deposit or withdrawal request to its final approval or rejection. Track the two separately.
• Rejected transactions. How many payment requests are rejected, and why. Repeated problems with one of your payment methods point to a provider or process issue.
• Support response time. How long clients wait for a first useful answer, including at night and at weekends.
• Platform and feed availability. Whether the trading platform, the website and the price feed stayed up, and how quickly any problem was spotted.

How to avoid misleading KPIs

• Define every metric once. If sales counts a lead at sign-up and marketing counts it at verification, the two reports will never match.
• Compare like with like. Use the same period, the same source and the same desk.
• Watch trends, not single days. One good week may be one lucky campaign.
• Keep the list short. If a number changes no decision, stop reporting it.
• Balance what you reward. An agent measured only on deposits has a reason to push clients. Pair sales targets with service measures.

A simple review rhythm

Numbers only help if someone looks at them at the right moment. A simple rhythm keeps each person on the metrics they can act on:

Where these numbers live in EVO CRM

KPIs are only as good as the data under them. When sales, payments and trading sit in separate tools, someone ends up joining spreadsheets and arguing about whose number is right. In EVO CRM, the lead, the client, the trading account and the transaction are connected in one system with the back office:

• Lead data. Every website sign-up arrives with its source, then gets a status, comments, an owner and an activity log.
• Desk data. Separate sales and retention desks with roles keep work tied to the right team.
• Trading data. Each client is linked to their trading accounts on EVO WebTrader.
• Payment data. Deposits and withdrawals by any payment method go through an approval flow, so every request has a clear state.
• Reports. See how your desks and leads are performing.

Advertising spend sits in your ad accounts, so cost per lead means combining that spend with lead counts by source from the CRM. If you need a specific report for your workflow, we can build it as custom development on top of EVO. We also monitor every broker's platform 24/7, including site uptime and price-feed status, and IP whitelist and security logs protect the data behind your numbers.

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