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At present, forex-brokers.co.uk lacks authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK's financial regulator. UK law treats scoring brokers or using buttons that direct you to an account as promoting an investment. Such activity is a criminal offence unless the regulator authorises it or an authorised firm formally approves it.

Our application to the regulator seeks permission for us to communicate and approve financial promotions. A complete application gives the regulator 6 months to make a decision, while an incomplete one gives it 12 months. The site will remain purely factual until that permission is granted. No page will include broker scores, verdicts or promotional buttons.

Plain records of authorised forex brokers and spread betting companies accompany our calculators, dated fee tables and UK tax pages. Many firms offer contracts for difference, allowing trades based on price movements without ownership of the asset. With spread betting, some firms let you stake a fixed number of pounds for each point that a price moves.

Our margin calculator and pip calculator help you check trading fees and calculate trade sizes. For every HM Revenue and Customs manual quoted on our tax pages, we show its code and the date we read it. Those manuals let you review UK rules for forex trading tax and spread betting tax.

No part of this site endorses a firm or advises you to begin trading. We don't create broker rankings, set out pros and cons or advise you on which firm to choose. Any page naming alternative firms contains only an alphabetical list linked through plain names.

A firm's official register entry appears first on its broker page, along with its retail loss rate. With these 2 facts, you can identify the UK licence holder and the frequency of losses among everyday clients. Around the world, trading brands often run several companies. The check of the UK legal entity and reference number happens before any comparison of fees or platforms.

Every contracts for difference provider must display the share of retail accounts that lose money under UK rules. You can lose money rapidly through leverage, which lets you control a large position with a small deposit. Every 3 months, each broker must recalculate its loss figure using the preceding 12 months.

Every 3 months, we check each firm's UK website for its figure and state when we read it. Other comparison sites often present undated ranges or numbers that are out of date. Legal entities can have different figures, and pages on one broker's website may show different values. On 31 October 2026 Pepperstone's UK site showed 73.6%, while Spreadex displayed 61% and 64% on separate pages. When a page links to a broker, the full risk warning stays fixed on your screen while you scroll.

Our editorial policy explains how we review register records and fee tables. You can also learn about the site's commercial operations on our disclosure page. We neither request user reviews nor scrape ratings from other websites.

Mistakes reported through our form receive a review within 48 hours. A broker's correction leads us to update the figure and add a dated note. A regulator warning or clone firm flag leads us to revise the page within 1 day.

Using our calculators or reading our pages doesn't lead us to collect details about your finances. Basic traffic analytics and click logs are covered on our privacy and terms pages. We don't follow you across the web with adverts through remarketing.