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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

The real ones

2026
Year this project started
0
Broker ratings published so far
6
Invented profiles, labelled as such
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 published checklist — fees, regulation, execution, withdrawals, support — that every company will be scored against once there is a company here to score.

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

Layouts for rates, movers and session summaries across pairs, metals, indices and digital assets. The prices in them are placeholders until a market feed is connected.

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. Next

    Something worth ranking

    One firm, checked properly, is a better first rating than six written from nothing. The methodology below is what that check will have to satisfy.

How we will evaluate companies

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 will come from a fixed scorecard applied the same way to every brokerage and exchange covered, and it is published here before the first score is, so it can be argued with while it still costs nothing to change.

No company has been through it yet. When one has, a bad score will be published with the evidence behind it, and a claim that could not be checked will be marked unchecked rather than repeated from a marketing page.

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.

A note from our Editor-in-Chief

MF

Marcus F.

Editor-in-Chief, traderpublic

I have spent my working life in journalism, most of it writing about money. What drew me to traderpublic was a simple editorial rule: we do not publish anything we would not be comfortable defending to a reader who acted on it.

Reporting the news is the easy half. The harder half is making the news useful — separating a headline that changes your risk from one that only feels urgent. That is the work our desks do every day, and it is why every analytical piece here passes through an editor and a fact-checker before it is published.

Markets move faster than anyone can responsibly guess at. We would rather be right an hour later than first and wrong.

— Marcus F.

Made upMarcus F. is one of this site's invented personas. The editorial rule in the letter is one traderpublic holds itself to; the person signing it is not real.

The people behind the coverage

A written-up masthead, shown the way a real one would be laid out

RD

Roman D.

Director of Analytics

MF

Marcus F.

Editor-in-Chief

AP

Aditya P.

Head of Fact-Checking

TW

Theo W.

Senior Regional Editor

VS

Viktor S.

Head of Reviews & Ratings

YZ

Yuri Z.

Crypto & Blockchain Editor

SR

Sofia R.

Educational Content Editor

BN

Bohdan N.

Senior Newsfeed Editor

KM

Kabir M.

Editorial Standards Specialist

RH

Ryan H.

Contributing Author

Our principles

What every desk is held to

01

Timeliness

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

02

Accuracy

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

03

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.

04

Plain language

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

05

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.

06

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.