69%

CMC Markets'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 6 October 2026).

CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Each figure is the firm's own statement about its retail clients. Data, not advice.

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

CMC Markets UK plc (as named on the firm's page)

Regulator

FCA (from our list of firms; not yet checked on the regulator's register)

Figure

69% of retail accounts lose money

Read on

6 October 2026, from the UK

Second read

Matched: independently re-read by a second automated check on 13 October 2026. No person has re-read this figure yet.

Median of 31 providers

73.46% Our calculation, not any firm's warning. This figure is 4.46 points below it.

How CMC Markets compares

• Position in our set12 of the 31 providers we read stated a lower figure and 17 a higher one; ActivTrades 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%. CMC Markets's 69% is 4.6 points below it, and 8 of the 21 stated a lower figure.
• Nearest figuresCity Index (68%), ActivTrades (69%) and IG (70%).

Receipt

The warning, word for word, as it appeared on the firm's page:

69% of retail investor accounts lose money when spread betting and/or trading CFDs with this provider

Page

https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/risk-warning

Read on

2026-10-06, from the UK, by a full-browser fetch

Fingerprint

SHA-256 5233b49ae807124e1e9ed425d93a8f2ce0dd0f0284d733ec2a19da0f81b1355a
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Saved copy

Not published. The fingerprint above shows which text we read.

Notes

Warning read from the risk-warning page; the homepage our script read showed no percentage warning.

Quarterly history

31 archived quarterly figures (Wayback Machine), 2018-Q3 to 2026-Q2. Gaps are real gaps. The red dot is the live figure.

Change since the earliest archived figure (2018-Q3, 78%): -9 points. The archived page and today's page are not always the same address.

The entity shown above is today's. We didn't read the entity from each archived page.

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