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About traderpublic

traderpublic is a young independent project covering finance and investing — market news, broker research, analysis and education, with the interface published in seven languages and the articles in English and Thai.

It exists to help readers lose less money to avoidable mistakes: an unregulated broker, a fee buried in a terms page, a position sized on hope. It is also new, and parts of it were written to demonstrate an interface rather than to report anything. Those parts are labelled where they appear, and this page says which they are rather than leaving you to find out.

Our mission

To make financial markets legible to ordinary people — so that a reader who arrived knowing nothing can leave understanding what is happening, what it costs, and what could go wrong.

traderpublic in numbers

Read from our published records

198
Broker records published
40
Records with a published score
25
Regulators whose registers the records were checked against
7
Interface languages; articles in 2

What we do

Six areas, one editorial standard — some running, some still ahead

Market news, all day

A newsroom that tracks currencies, commodities, indices and crypto around the clock, so a move is explained while it still matters.

Broker research

A record for every broker the Hub publishes: licences traced to the regulator's register, fees and account terms each with its source, and a desk score where one has been published.

Analysis and forecasts

Technical and fundamental reviews with their assumptions stated out loud, plus price scenarios that are revisited rather than left standing.

Education that starts at zero

Guides, glossaries and worked examples for readers who have never placed a trade — and for those refining a strategy.

Quote and forecast pages

Daily reference rates for currency pairs from the ECB fixing; an instrument without a licensed data source is left out rather than simulated. Forecast pages that are illustrations carry their own label.

Reader reviews

Planned, not open. When it launches it will take first-hand accounts from confirmed funded accounts, alongside our own findings rather than instead of them.

Our story

Short, recent, and told with the awkward parts left in

  1. Early 2026

    An interface, before there was a publication

    traderpublic began as a study of how a financial-media site is put together: the layouts, the ratings furniture, the way a broker profile is laid out. Everything in it was written to fill the shapes — companies, scores, staff and all.

  2. August 2026

    The impersonations came out

    The first pass had carried staff names and biographies lifted from a real publisher. They were removed and replaced with people who plainly do not exist, which is a smaller wrong but still a wrong, so they are now labelled wherever they appear.

  3. August 2026

    A newsroom that publishes something real

    The site was wired to an editorial system over an authenticated endpoint. Articles delivered that way — including broker reviews with their licence records attached — are the first content here that was reported rather than invented.

  4. August 2026

    The ratings page stopped pretending

    The broker ranking was withdrawn. The six profiles behind it are kept as illustrations, marked as invented, excluded from search and from any list that orders or recommends. Nothing is published as a rating until a licence has been checked against the regulator that issued it.

  5. September 2026

    Broker records from the source

    The Hub began publishing broker records directly, not only inside review articles: each licence registration with the regulator's register it was checked on, and the date. The broker directory, the comparison pages and every broker page are built from those records.

  6. September 2026

    A ranking with a stated basis

    The Top 5 returned, ordered by the desk score the Hub publishes for each broker. A record without a published score is shown unranked, never placed last.

  7. Next

    More records scored

    A broker joins the ranking only when the desk publishes a score for it, with the evidence behind it. Until then its record shows what has been checked, and says what has not.

How we evaluate brokers

The standard a traderpublic rating has to clear before it is published

A rating is only useful if you can see how it was built. Ours comes from a fixed scorecard applied the same way to every broker covered, and the scorecard was published before the first score, so it could be argued with while it still cost nothing to change.

A score is published with the evidence behind it, and a claim that could not be checked is marked unchecked rather than repeated from a marketing page. A broker without a published score stays unranked.

What we publish about brokers
  • A licence checked at the sourceEvery registration claim traced to the register the regulator publishes, and recorded as unchecked where it has not been.
  • Scored criteria, published firstRegulation, fees, execution quality, platform features, funding and withdrawal terms, support responsiveness — the scorecard goes up before the first score does.
  • Accounts opened by usConditions read from a funded account we control rather than from a marketing page: real orders, real withdrawal requests, timed end to end.
  • A second pair of eyesFigures, dates and quoted terms confirmed against primary sources by an editor who did not write the piece.
  • Ratings that expireA score is re-examined on a fixed cycle, and immediately if regulation or ownership changes. A rating nobody has revisited is a rating nobody stands behind.

Our principles

What every desk is held to

Timeliness

A market story loses most of its value overnight. We publish while a reader can still act on what they have learned.

Accuracy

Numbers come from primary sources, and where a claim has not been checked we say so instead of repeating it.

Independence

There is no advertising on this site and no commercial relationship with any brokerage. If that changes, it is disclosed here before it reaches a page.

Plain language

Finance is complicated enough. We explain the mechanism instead of hiding behind the vocabulary.

Transparency

The scoring model, the review policy and the parts of this site that were written rather than researched are all published and open to challenge.

Responsibility

We write about money people cannot afford to lose, and we treat risk warnings as part of the story, not a footnote.

Get in touch

Story tip, correction or partnership?

Our editors read everything. Tell us what we got wrong, what we missed, or what you would like covered next.

Contact the editors

Disclosure. traderpublic is a demo media project. It is not a broker, does not provide investment advice and does not accept client funds. Trading in leveraged products carries a high risk of loss; only risk capital you can afford to lose.