If you lose money in the transaction, the money you lose is the agent of the trading platform. Of course, he will use the money earned from you to pay the profits of other trading customers.
Generally speaking, trading platform agents earn profits by trading the price difference. As long as the number of buyers and sellers is roughly equal, then he will certainly make a profit. Because he uses the money of loss-making customers to pay the income of profit-making customers. Regardless of profit or loss, he charges the difference between the two parties. This is its income. Think about China's stock market and its relationship with major securities firms.
Moreover, the retail quotation, taking the euro as an example, is generally four decimal places, such as 1.3928/ 1.3930. However, due to the huge transaction amount, the group quotation can be accurate to more than 6 decimal places, such as 1.39842/ 1.9860. Therefore, traders can also absorb retail quotations, and then use group quotations to exchange with other institutions to obtain spreads.
(The above-mentioned "trading platform agent" refers to the concept of the dealer itself, that is, the brokerage level, rather than the agent of a domestic trading platform. )