Review methodology
Every editorial review is built from the same record, so the same questions are answered for every broker in the same order. User reviews sit beside it and never mix with it.
What a review covers
Regulation and licences, safety of funds, trading conditions, account types, fees, platforms, markets, deposits and withdrawals, the company behind the brand, and support. Each section says what the record holds and what it means for a reader: not just that the broker offers a raw-spread account, but that the commission on it makes the all-in cost such and such, and who that suits. Where the record is silent the review says so rather than filling the gap.
Where the facts come from
The broker's own published material first: its legal documents, account pages, pricing pages and product lists. Then the public registers of the regulators it names, which tell us whether the licence exists, which legal entity holds it and what it permits. Where the two disagree, the register wins and the disagreement is noted. Claims a broker makes that cannot be checked are reported as claims.
Third-party review sites are not sources. Some of them sell their scores, and a figure that can be bought tells you nothing about the broker.
How it stays current
Records are rechecked on a rolling basis and whenever a reader, a broker or the news feed reports a change. A material change to a licence, a score or a fee is logged with the previous value, the new one and the reason, and the profile shows the date the record was last checked.
User reviews are separate
Traders can post reviews under their own account. They are read by a person before publication, labelled verified where evidence was seen, and shown with the broker's response where it gives one. The user rating is the average of those reviews and is displayed beside the editorial score, never averaged into it. The review policy sets out how user reviews are handled.
Corrections and responses
Anyone can ask for a correction, and a broker that has claimed its profile can respond to reviews and complaints on the page. Corrections are checked against the source and applied with a dated note; responses are published beside the original and do not change it.