About this site
We keep a record of 100 forex and CFD brokers, rate them on the same six measures, and publish the working - so the ordering can be checked rather than taken on trust.
What the site is for
Choosing a broker is a research task most people do once, against marketing written by firms that all sound the same. The facts that actually decide the account you end up with - which legal entity holds your money, what a trade costs once commission is counted, whether your balance can go below zero - are real and checkable, and they are scattered across legal pages nobody reads.
So we collect them into one record per broker, keep every record in the same shape, and build every ranking on this site from that single source. The comparison tables are generated from it, which is why a figure on a category page and the same figure in the review two clicks away cannot disagree.
How a broker is rated
Six measures - regulation, costs, platforms, markets, support and education - scored the same way for every firm and combined into one figure out of ten. The method is set out in full on how we rate, and every category page prints the rule that produced its order, so the list can be checked against the rule rather than assumed to match it.
Where a fact is not on record we say so rather than filling the gap with something plausible. That matters most on the protections - compensation schemes, negative balance protection - where an absence is itself the finding.
How it is paid for
Some brokers pay a commission when a reader opens an account through our link, and brokers can pay for advertising placement. That is set out on how we make money. It does not buy a rating or a position in a list.
When we get something wrong
Broker terms change constantly and our records are a snapshot. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us - we will check it against the broker's own published material and correct it.
What this site is not
It is not financial advice, and nothing here takes account of your circumstances. Leveraged trading loses money for most retail clients who try it, and rating a broker highly is a statement about the broker rather than about whether you should be trading at all. The risk disclosure puts that plainly.