{
  "profile": "tabular-data-package",
  "name": "cfd-loss-rates",
  "title": "CFD loss-rate series: share of retail accounts losing money, by provider",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "created": "2026-10-06",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
      "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Broker websites: mandated retail risk warning (FCA COBS 22.5; ESMA/CySEC product intervention)",
      "description": "One source URL per row, in the source_url column."
    },
    {
      "title": "Internet Archive Wayback Machine",
      "path": "https://web.archive.org/"
    }
  ],
  "resources": [
    {
      "name": "cfd-loss-rates-live",
      "path": "cfd-loss-rates.csv",
      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
      "format": "csv",
      "encoding": "utf-8",
      "schema": {
        "primaryKey": [
          "slug"
        ],
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "broker",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Brand name"
          },
          {
            "name": "slug",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "URL-safe id"
          },
          {
            "name": "entity",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Legal entity the warning belongs to, as named on the page"
          },
          {
            "name": "loss_rate_pct",
            "type": "number",
            "description": "% of retail accounts that lose money, as stated by the firm",
            "constraints": {
              "minimum": 0,
              "maximum": 100
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "warning_text",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The warning sentence, verbatim"
          },
          {
            "name": "source_url",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Page the warning was read from (after redirects)",
            "format": "uri"
          },
          {
            "name": "checked_at",
            "type": "date",
            "description": "Date the page was read"
          },
          {
            "name": "evidence",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "sha256 of the page text plus fetch method and location"
          },
          {
            "name": "second_read",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Independent automated second read of the page (not a person): match, changed, not_found or blocked; empty = not re-read",
            "constraints": {
              "enum": [
                "",
                "match",
                "changed",
                "not_found",
                "blocked"
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "second_read_at",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Date of the second read, YYYY-MM-DD"
          },
          {
            "name": "second_read_pct",
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Figure the second read found (empty unless match or changed). loss_rate_pct is not overwritten; see cfd-loss-rates-observations.csv"
          },
          {
            "name": "second_read_url",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Page the second read landed on (after redirects)"
          },
          {
            "name": "second_read_evidence",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Saved page text / screenshot in our evidence archive, with sha256"
          },
          {
            "name": "second_read_note",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Why a second read did not match, where it needs saying"
          },
          {
            "name": "notes",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Regulator (from our list, not yet register-checked; 'Not confirmed' when the entity is unconfirmed) and caveats"
          },
          {
            "name": "register_url",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Regulator's public register page for the entity, once checked (empty = not register-checked)"
          },
          {
            "name": "register_checked_at",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Date the regulator register was checked, YYYY-MM-DD (empty = not checked)"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "cfd-loss-rates-history",
      "path": "cfd-loss-rates-history.csv",
      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
      "format": "csv",
      "encoding": "utf-8",
      "schema": {
        "primaryKey": [
          "slug",
          "quarter"
        ],
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "broker",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Brand name"
          },
          {
            "name": "slug",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "URL-safe id, joins to the live file"
          },
          {
            "name": "entity",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Today's entity (not read from each archived page)"
          },
          {
            "name": "quarter",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Calendar quarter of the archive capture, YYYY-Qn",
            "pattern": "^\\d{4}-Q[1-4]$"
          },
          {
            "name": "loss_rate_pct",
            "type": "number",
            "description": "% of retail accounts that lose money on the archived page",
            "constraints": {
              "minimum": 0,
              "maximum": 100
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "archive_url",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Wayback Machine capture",
            "format": "uri"
          },
          {
            "name": "warning_text",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The warning sentence on the archived page, verbatim"
          }
        ]
      },
      "foreignKeys": [
        {
          "fields": "slug",
          "reference": {
            "resource": "cfd-loss-rates-live",
            "fields": "slug"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "cfd-loss-rates-observations",
      "path": "cfd-loss-rates-observations.csv",
      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
      "format": "csv",
      "encoding": "utf-8",
      "schema": {
        "primaryKey": [
          "slug",
          "observed_at",
          "read_type"
        ],
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "broker",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Brand name"
          },
          {
            "name": "slug",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "URL-safe id, joins to the live file"
          },
          {
            "name": "observed_at",
            "type": "date",
            "description": "Date the page was read"
          },
          {
            "name": "loss_rate_pct",
            "type": "number",
            "description": "% of retail accounts that lose money, as read that day",
            "constraints": {
              "minimum": 0,
              "maximum": 100
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "warning_text",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The warning sentence, verbatim"
          },
          {
            "name": "page_url",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Page read (after redirects)",
            "format": "uri"
          },
          {
            "name": "read_type",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "first_read (the published reading; '(superseded)' when corrected), uk_browser_read (published) for a corrected figure, or second_read (match/changed)"
          },
          {
            "name": "fetch_location",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Where the page was read from"
          },
          {
            "name": "method",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "static (plain HTTP) or js/playwright (headless browser)"
          },
          {
            "name": "evidence",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "sha256 of the page text and, for second reads, the saved file"
          }
        ]
      },
      "foreignKeys": [
        {
          "fields": "slug",
          "reference": {
            "resource": "cfd-loss-rates-live",
            "fields": "slug"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "cfd-loss-rates-summary",
      "path": "cfd-loss-rates-summary.json",
      "format": "json",
      "mediatype": "application/json"
    }
  ],
  "homepage": "https://tradinglookup.com/brokers/cfd-loss-rates/"
}