ActivTrades
activtrades.co.ukActivTrades PLCRead 13 October 2026
ActivTrades CFD loss rate
ActivTrades's own risk warning says 69% of its retail accounts lose money when trading CFDs with it, according to TradingLookup's CFD Loss-Rate Series (read from the UK on ).
Corrected on . We first published 84% (read ); the figure is now 69%. Why, and the source: corrections log.
Provisional release (v1.0.0). Not every figure in this dataset has been confirmed by a second read yet; this one's status is under "Second read" below. What provisional means.
- Legal entity
- ActivTrades PLC
- Regulator
- FCA
- Figure
- 69% of retail accounts lose money
- Read on
- , from the UK
- Second read
- Not confirmed: a second automated check on 13 October 2026 did not reach the UK warning (the site showed it a non-UK page).
- Median of 31 providers
- 73.46%
How ActivTrades compares
- Position in our set12 of the 31 providers we read stated a lower figure and 17 a higher one; CMC Markets stated the same 69%. A lower figure is not proof of a better firm: client mix and products differ.
- Same regulator (FCA, from our list)21 other providers with a confirmed entity; their median (our calculation) is 73.6%. ActivTrades's 69% is 4.6 points below it, and 8 of the 21 stated a lower figure.
- Nearest figuresCity Index (68%), CMC Markets (69%) and IG (70%).
Receipt
69% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider
- Read on
- Fingerprint
- SHA-256 not recorded
- Saved copy
- Not published. The fingerprint above shows which text we read.
- Notes
- Corrected on 13 October 2026: we first published 84%, read on activtrades.com, which belongs to a non-UK ActivTrades company. The UK site of ActivTrades PLC (FCA 434413) shows 69%.
Quarterly history
Not in our quarterly archive. ActivTrades joined our list after our quarterly search of the Wayback Machine (2018 to 2026), so its archived copies haven't been searched yet. We'll add any figure we find, each with its Wayback link, and never fill a gap.
| Date | Figure read | Page | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84% | activtrades.com | First read by our script, from the UK; replaced by the later read (correction) | |
| 69% | activtrades.co.uk | Re-read of the visible page in a web browser, from the UK: the figure we publish |
More
- All 31 providersWith the median and downloads.
- MethodHow we read these figures, and what we haven't checked yet.
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