Spread Co Spread Betting Review

Updated on 28 Sep 2026: The Customer Service mark is now computed from our support test under our published rule, rather than typed from the scoring sheet. Spread Co’s Customer Service mark moves from 5/10 to 6/10, its overall score moves from 43/100 to 45/100, and it stays twelfth of 14. The contact behind the mark, made on 27 Aug 2026, was not resolved, so 3 was taken off the band mark. The review now prints the number of contacts behind the mark, one, and the date beside the mark, and the author line, this change note and the payment disclosure now sit after the opening answer and the four fact tiles.

Updated on 24 Sep 2026: a sentence now states that Spread Co’s fixed spreads apply to bets of up to £50 a point, and that above that stake its spreads widen on a sliding scale. The source is Spread Co’s own Spread Bet Markets page, read on 24 Sep 2026. Before this, the page called its spreads fixed without that limit. No score, rank or spread figure changed. we recomputed every score on the site as the sum of the six criterion marks, each out of 10, divided by 60 and multiplied by 100, rounded half up, with no criterion weighted, and the ranking follows the scores, with brokers on the same score sharing a place. Spread Co’s score moved from 46/100 to 43/100 and its place moved from thirteenth to twelfth of 14. The paragraph under the table of marks now states this rule, where it had said the marks do not add up to the score. The comparison with the brokers ranked either side follows the new order. we recomputed every score on the site as the sum of the six criterion marks, each out of 10, divided by 60 and multiplied by 100, rounded half up, with no criterion weighted, and the ranking follows the scores, with brokers on the same score sharing a place. Spread Co’s score moved from 46/100 to 43/100 and its place moved from thirteenth to twelfth of 14. The paragraph under the table of marks now states this rule, where it had said the marks do not add up to the score. The comparison with the brokers ranked either side follows the new order.

Updated on 23 Sep 2026: This review was checked against Spread Co’s own UK pages and the FCA Register, and several passages that repeated what other pages own, or that we could not source, were removed, including the account-opening timing and the "which account to choose" passages. Four dated tests were added: a support question, an account opening, a withdrawal, and both builds of the app driven on an iPhone and a Pixel. Spread Co’s terms of business were confirmed to offer a guaranteed stop loss on selected markets, at its discretion, for a premium.

Updated on 22 Sep 2026: The old average and figure terms are now named as the average of the brokers that publish one, or the brokers’ average. The FCA register check date and the instrument count date were updated to 22 Sep 2026, the minimum deposit now reads "Not stated", the platform list was updated, and the exchange-rate snapshot for margin was refreshed to the Mon 21 Sep 2026 New York close.

Updated 19 Sep 2026. A new section covers Spread Co trust, ownership, what happens to your money if it fails and our withdrawal test, sourced 19 September 2026. The FCA section opens with whether Spread Co is regulated, the byline now credits David Levy as fact-checker, and a CFD sentence links to our comparison. The verdict gives Spread Co’s criterion mark range, its median fill in our August 2026 timed orders, and published spreads against the publishing brokers’ average separately. The opening names its average and broker count, and the H1 regains Review. No score, rank or spread figure changed.

Updated 18 Sep 2026. We changed how we read spreads: we now read each broker’s own UK site and record what kind of figure it publishes, average, typical, fixed, target or minimum. The cost section, the verdict and the pros and cons now follow what Spread Co publishes. No score or rank changed.

Updated 5 Sep 2026. A section inviting readers who have traded with Spread Co to tell us what a new customer should know now sits before the FAQ: a rating, how long they have traded, the markets, one thing to know, and their consent. Submissions are read by the team, only reviews we can verify are ever published, and none are published yet; nothing entered there appears on this page. No figure changed.

Updated 3 Sep 2026. Three changes on the day. First, a cost band now opens the page: what a spread bet costs at your stake and bet count against the brokers’ average, computed from the same harvest as the spread table further down. Second, the FCA register entry for the authorised firm was re-read and captured, and the capture sits under the section on who you contract with, beside the licence list; the rail’s section list was cut to the sections readers use. Third, the page moved onto the new review layout: a head-to-head against the two accounts either side of it in our ranking, a dated testing log built from the August datasets, a licence list, a per-bet cost tool on the spread table, and a section carrying the third-party ratings read from the platforms themselves, each with the date it was captured. No spread figure, score or rank changed.

Updated 31 Aug 2026. Four dated tests were added and none was on the page before: a support question timed to first response, an account opening timed to approval, a withdrawal with its fee and its outcome, and both builds of the app driven on an iPhone and a Pixel. Two of the three service results are negative and the page states both. The sentence saying we have published no assessment of how these platforms perform is retired, because the app test now measures part of what it disclaimed. No spread figure, score or rank changed.