74%

Trading 212'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 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

Trading 212 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

74% of retail accounts lose money

Read on

6 October 2026, from the UK

Second read

Not confirmed: the site refused 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 0.54 points above it.

How Trading 212 compares

• Position in our set18 of the 31 providers we read stated a lower figure and 9 a higher one; Forex.com, IG EU, XTB stated the same 74%. 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 70%. Trading 212's 74% is 4 points above it, and 13 of the 21 stated a lower figure.
• Nearest figuresForex.com (74%), IG EU (74%) and XTB (74%).

Receipt

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

74% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider

Page

https://www.trading212.com/cfd

Read on

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

Fingerprint

SHA-256 41eea4e2229dd6212b468c07d0131668a964b05dac84642b3d911d5dbee540b2
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 /cfd page, not the homepage.

Quarterly history

Use with care. Same figure 10 quarters running (page may not have been updated). Don't use this history to compare Trading 212 with other firms.

13 archived quarterly figures (Wayback Machine), 2018-Q3 to 2021-Q3. Gaps are real gaps. The red dot is the live figure.

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

More

• All 31 providersWith the median and downloads.
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