Tickmill CFD loss rate

By Sydney Stones (data and method lead) Last updated 6 October 2026 Data read by our script

How we got this

How: Copied word for word from Tickmill's own risk warning on tickmill.co.uk, read from the UK by our script on 6 October 2026; the receipt below has the page, the date and a fingerprint of the text. How we check How we make money Corrections

68%

Tickmill's own risk warning says 68% 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: Tickmill UK Ltd (as named on the firm's page)
Regulator: FCA (from our list of firms; not yet checked on the regulator's register)
Figure: 68% 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 5.46 points below it.

How Tickmill compares

Position in our set10 of the 31 providers we read stated a lower figure and 19 a higher one; City Index stated the same 68%. 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%. Tickmill's 68% is 5.6 points below it, and 6 of the 21 stated a lower figure.
Nearest figuresAxi (67.7%), City Index (68%) and ActivTrades (69%).

Receipt

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

68% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with Tickmill UK Ltd

Page: https://www.tickmill.co.uk/
Read on: 2026-10-06, from the UK, by a full-browser fetch
Fingerprint: SHA-256 32de6b3b87fba08c9c70a596dfffa21442adb117bb09b317cbe5830f8d416977
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.

Quarterly history

21 archived quarterly figures (Wayback Machine), 2019-Q1 to 2024-Q2. Gaps are real gaps. The red dot is the live figure.

Change since the earliest archived figure (2019-Q1, 81%): -13 points. The archived page and today's page are not always the same address.

Tickmill: archived quarterly figures
Quarter	Lose money	Receipt
2024-Q2	71%	Wayback capture
2024-Q1	71%	Wayback capture
2023-Q4	70%	Wayback capture
2023-Q3	72%	Wayback capture
2023-Q2	75%	Wayback capture
2023-Q1	75%	Wayback capture
2022-Q4	76%	Wayback capture
2022-Q3	71%	Wayback capture
2022-Q2	71%	Wayback capture
2022-Q1	70%	Wayback capture
2021-Q4	71%	Wayback capture
2021-Q3	73%	Wayback capture
2021-Q2	73%	Wayback capture
2021-Q1	75%	Wayback capture
2020-Q4	75%	Wayback capture
2020-Q3	73%	Wayback capture
2020-Q2	73%	Wayback capture
2020-Q1	73%	Wayback capture
2019-Q4	72%	Wayback capture
2019-Q2	80%	Wayback capture
2019-Q1	81%	Wayback capture

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

All 31 providersWith the median and downloads.
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