At Forex Blog, we like to keep up on the latest forex news by keeping tabs on other forex Web sites. Recently, our desire to stay on top of the latest forex news begged the question: which forex sites have the biggest reach? With nowhere to turn to answer this question definitively, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to rank all Web sites in the forex niche.

In ranking the top forex sites, our goal was to show — using objective data from reliable sources — which sites that are solely about forex are the most popular. To this end, we used data for these four metrics to calculate the rankings:

• — Google PageRank
• — Alexa Rank
• — Technorati Link Count
• — Compete People Count

Top 25 (see complete methodology below)

Rank	Site					Score
1	FX Street	6	10	10	10	36
2	Daily FX	6	10	10	10	36
3	Global Forex Trading	6	10	10	10	36
4	Forex Factory	4	10	10	9	33
5	Babypips	5	9	9	9	32
6	Action Forex	4	9	10	9	32
7	Forex News	6	9	9	8	32
8	CMS Forex	5	9	8	10	32
9	FX Solutions	4	10	7	10	31
10	Forex TV	5	6	10	10	31
11	Forex Markets	4	8	8	8	28
12	Global View	5	7	7	9	28
13	Finotec	4	9	8	6	27
14	Forex Directory	4	8	8	7	27
15	FX Words	6	6	6	9	27
16	Grace Cheng: Power Forex Trading	5	8	7	6	26
17	The Forex Project	4	6	9	7	26
18	Forex Blog	5	6	9	6	26
19	Forex Bastards	3	8	5	8	24
20	Secret Forex Society	4	8	5	7	24
21	Peter Bain: Forex Trading Commentary	3	7	6	8	24
22	MTI Forex Tips	4	7	7	6	24
23	Pip Trader	4	5	6	6	21
24	Forex Realm	4	5	4	7	20
25	Free Forex Charts	6	4	3	7	20

Methodology

To begin, we referred to an earlier post of ours, Top 100 Forex Resources, to gather an initial list of sites to rank.

For each metric, a score was assigned on a 0–10 scale. For Google PageRank, raw PageRank data was scored. For Alexa Rank, Technorati Authority, and Bloglines Subscribers, the Web sites were broken up into deciles. If a Web site was in the 0>10% decile, a 1 was scored; for the 10>20% decile, a 2 was scored; and so on, up to a 10 being scored for the 90–100% decile. If no data was available, a 0 was scored.

The overall score for each Web site is the sum of the scores of the four metrics. In the event of a tie in overall score, the tie is broken according to the Alexa Rank raw data.

Raw Data for Entire Set

Rank	Site
1	FX Street	6	7,252	15,114	31,817
2	Daily FX	6	12,991	3,350	50,605
3	Global Forex Trading	6	22,638	1,479	45,665
4	Forex Factory	4	5,385	1,085	8,726
5	Babypips	5	29,534	951	6,078
6	Action Forex	4	47,022	7,853	7,191
7	Forex News	6	54,775	745	3,939
8	CMS Forex	5	59,052	310	15,723
9	FX Solutions	4	28,263	207	160,374
10	Forex TV	5	195,082	1,247	15,380
11	Forex Markets	4	101,022	309	2,849
12	Global View	5	173,139	228	9,070
13	Finotec	4	37,691	346	1,016
14	Forex Directory	4	96,132	435	2,405
15	FX Words	6	213,487	183	5,082
16	Grace Cheng: Power Forex Trading	5	99,604	291	1,121
17	The Forex Project	4	210,968	466	1,392
18	Forex Blog	5	218,080	1,042	1,047
19	Forex Bastards	3	60,769	113	4,343
20	Secret Forex Society	4	102,413	110	1,871
21	Peter Bain: Forex Trading Commentary	3	112,319	126	3,341
22	MTI Forex Tips	4	119,283	261	1,045
23	Pip Trader	4	318,320	115	1,312
24	Forex Realm	4	442,474	72	2,153
25	Free Forex Charts	6	735,587	23	1,987
26	FX Power Trading Course	5	762,178	14	2,725
27	Earn Forex	3	285,271	891	0
28	Open Forex	5	522,180	433	0
29	Piptopia	4	283,227	95	0
30	Currency Secrets	4	319,276	74	0
31	Forex Reader	4	925,415	251	0
32	E-Forex	4	725,463	45	0
33	Forex Training	4	792,896	83	0
34	Forex Central	3	882,795	123	0
35	Ace Trader	3	183,248	4	0
36	Top 100 Forex Sites	0	353,883	158	0
37	Forex Predictions	3	1,019,283	33	0
38	Forex Trading USA	3	1,239,717	70	0
39	Scotia FX	5	2,771,289	14	0
40	FX HomeTrader	4	3,349,877	48	0
41	Learn4X	3	1,295,120	30	0
42	Forex Fibonacci	3	1,873,925	11	0
43	Forex Business	4	3,136,818	5	0
44	Info Forex	4	3,234,432	14	0
45	A Forex Loser	3	3,844,810	19	0
46	Forex Glossary	4	4,104,774	13	0
47	IFXTAG	4		29	0
48	Forex Planet	0	7,461,379	18	0
49	Forex Economic Calendar	0	2,340,539	3	0
50	My Forex Trading Tools	2	No Data	1	0
51	FX Quote	0	No Data	1	0