Review policy
User ratings are submitted by community members and are not part of the 88 Forex Brokers editorial score.
The rating
A review carries a required overall rating from one to five stars, labelled overall experience, and optional category ratings for platform and execution, trading costs, deposits, withdrawals, customer support and account management. The aggregate user rating is the mean of eligible current individual ratings, shown out of five with the number of ratings it rests on, and it is published only once a minimum number of eligible ratings exists. Category ratings are never combined with editorial scores.
Who counts
Broker staff, agencies, affiliates and incentivised contributors are excluded from the public aggregate. A removed rating leaves the aggregate immediately while its moderation history is retained. Where the same user rates the same broker again, the latest eligible rating is used unless distinct accounts are verified. Suspected coordinated, automated, duplicated, incentivised or conflicted activity is excluded from aggregates while it is investigated, and individual ratings are never silently rewritten to counter it.
Verification
A review labelled verified experience is one where evidence or the account relationship was privately checked. The label describes what was checked; it does not establish that every statement in the review is correct. Uploaded evidence is private by default and is not published unless the contributor separately authorises an appropriate redacted item.
Publication states
A review is a draft until submitted, then under review, then published, or more information is requested, or it is not published with the reason and an appeal route. A published review can be edited, with the published version remaining visible while the change is reviewed, withdrawn by its author, temporarily hidden while a specific report is checked, removed after publication with the reason shown, or archived so that it no longer contributes to the current rating.
Commercial independence
Sponsored placement and commercial relationships do not alter rating eligibility, complaint visibility, response metrics or moderation decisions.