Broker profiles: what information should we add?

Our broker profiles list licences, the companies behind each brand, retail loss percentages and the sources we used. There are no star ratings, and brokers are ordered by the number of top-tier regulators rather than by commission.

Broker profiles: what information should we add? — bid-ask spread diagram
The bid-ask spread on a currency pair

What would make the profiles more useful to you?

  • the information you look for first when comparing brokers
  • details that are hard to find on brokers' own sites, such as withdrawal fees or swap-free terms
  • brokers you'd like profiled next, with the regulator you know them by
Broker profiles: what information should we add? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

We only publish facts we can source from regulators' registers and brokers' own legal documents, so suggestions that fit that standard are the easiest to act on. The method is described in how we review brokers.

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  1. FTC Community Team1 mo ago

    An update on the profiles, so suggestions can build on what's there.

    Now available: 15 broker profiles, each listing the regulators and legal companies behind the brand, licence numbers, platforms, account types, minimum deposit, commission and the published share of retail CFD accounts that lose money, with sources. The compare page shows up to five brokers side by side.

    Ideas we're considering, and would like your view on:

    • withdrawal methods and any fees the broker publishes
    • swap-free account terms
    • which company within a group serves clients in which region

    The hard limit is sourcing: we only add facts published by regulators or in a broker's own legal documents. That rules out things like average execution speed unless a broker publishes it.

    If you'd like a broker profiled next, reply with its name and the regulator you know it by.

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