70%

IG's own risk warning says 70% 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

IG Markets Ltd (as named on the firm's page)

Regulator

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

Figure

70% 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 3.46 points below it.

How IG compares

• Position in our set14 of the 31 providers we read stated a lower figure and 16 a higher one. 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%. IG's 70% is 3.6 points below it, and 10 of the 21 stated a lower figure.
• Nearest figuresCity Index (68%), ActivTrades (69%) and CMC Markets (69%).

Receipt

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

70% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider

Page

https://www.ig.com/uk/cfd-trading

Read on

2026-10-06, from the UK, by a plain-page fetch

Fingerprint

SHA-256 8a2d7f9bd690e90ae4add28314aa67e6d3d8811d231b34ed35c83f2f08e726a7
A hash of the page text we read. It proves which text we read, not what the page says today.

Saved copy

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

Notes

Warning read from the /uk/cfd-trading page, not the homepage.

Quarterly history

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

Change since the earliest archived figure (2018-Q3, 79%): -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.

IG's EU company

IG's figure above is for IG Markets Ltd. The group's EU company publishes its own figure, for its own clients:

• IG EU (IG Europe GmbH): 74%

IG EU: IG Europe GmbH

IG EU's own risk warning says 74% of its retail accounts lose money when trading CFDs with it, according to TradingLookup's CFD Loss-Rate Series (read 6 October 2026). That is 4 points higher than IG's 70%. The two figures come from different companies in the same group, with different clients, so they are shown side by side, not combined.

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.

Legal entity

IG Europe GmbH (as named on the firm's page)

Regulator

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

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.

Receipt

74 % der Kleinanlegerkonten verlieren Geld beim CFD-Handel mit diesem Anbieter

Page

https://www.ig.com/de

Fingerprint

SHA-256 c6459695b98134c804ded89862fec938bbb21f213f92f0cdac61cbf3c552ea5e
A hash of the page text we read. It proves which text we read, not what the page says today.

Notes

German-language page: '74 % der Kleinanlegerkonten verlieren Geld'.

Quarterly history

Not in our quarterly archive. IG EU 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.

Every read of IG EU's page so far

Date	Figure read	Page	Read
6 October 2026	74%	ig.com	First read by our script, from the UK
13 October 2026	74%	ig.com	Second automated read, from the US: same figure

From 21 October 2026 our weekly re-read covers this page too; any change goes on the data change log.

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