Editorial standards
Editorial policy
This is the rulebook the traderpublic newsroom works to. It is published in full, before it is convenient, so that a reader can hold a page to a standard that was written down in advance rather than argued for afterwards.
Corrections
A correction is not an embarrassment to be minimised. It is the only evidence a reader ever gets that a publication checks itself, which is why ours are made in public rather than by quietly editing a sentence out of existence.
If something here is wrong, write to the editorial address with the page, the sentence, and — where you have it — the source that contradicts us. A factual error is corrected on the page itself and carries a dated line saying what the page previously said. Typographic repairs that do not change meaning are made silently; anything that changes the meaning of a sentence is never silent.
If you think a page is unfair rather than inaccurate, send that too. We would rather argue about it in writing than leave it standing unchallenged, and a complaint that we cannot answer is a reason to withdraw a page, not to defend it harder.
Sourcing and fact-checking
Every factual claim is expected to reach a primary source: the regulator's own register for a licence, the firm's own current documents for a fee or an account condition, the issuing institution for a rate or a statement. A second-hand summary is a lead to be followed, not a source to be cited.
Where a claim cannot be traced that far, it is either dropped or published as unverified in those words. A number with no origin is not a fact, and an estimate is never formatted so that it can be mistaken for a measurement.
Nothing on this site is taken from another publication and presented as our own reporting.
- Licence and regulatory status — the issuing regulator's public register, read on a stated date.
- Fees, spreads, funding and withdrawal terms — the firm's own published documents, not a marketing page.
- Market prices and levels — the data source named on the page that carries them.
- Anything else — named, dated, and linked wherever the source permits a link.
- Anything unreachable — labelled unverified, and kept out of every comparison and score.
Conflicts of interest
traderpublic accepts no payment, hospitality, equipment, trading credit or revenue share from any brokerage, exchange, issuer or trading platform in return for coverage. No such arrangement exists.
Anyone contributing to the newsroom is expected to declare a personal holding or a commercial tie to a company before working on anything that concerns it. Where a tie exists the work is reassigned; a disclosure bolted on afterwards is not treated as a remedy.
If a conflict is ever unavoidable — the only party who can answer a question is one we have a relationship with — the relationship is stated on the page itself, in the same size type as everything around it, and the reader is told what it could have influenced.
Sponsored content
There is no sponsored content on traderpublic. No article, comparison, position in a list or slot in a rail can be bought, and editorial pages carry no affiliate links.
If that ever changes, commercial material will be labelled where it appears, kept out of editorial rails, excluded from every ranking, and described on the trust and disclosure page before the first paid item runs. The label will say who paid, not merely that somebody did.
A panel that looks like a promotion but names no advertiser is an unsold slot, and it says so where it sits.
Update cadence
Market pages age badly, so a page is expected to carry the date its content was checked rather than the date somebody first wrote it.
News is published when the reporting is finished and is not rewritten afterwards to look prescient. Where a story develops, the update is added and dated beneath the original. Reference pages — this policy, the methodology, broker research — are revisited whenever the thing they describe changes, and reviewed at least once a year even when it has not.
A page we no longer stand behind is corrected or withdrawn. It is not left in place with its date quietly moved forward.
Use of AI
Parts of the production chain are automated. Articles reach this site from an editorial system over an authenticated connection, and machine assistance may be used for drafting, translation and formatting.
The permissions around that are deliberately narrow. A model is a drafting aid and never a source: it may not originate a fact, a figure, a quotation, a licence detail or a source citation, and anything it helps produce has to satisfy exactly the same sourcing rule as anything else on this page.
No article here is attributed to a model, and no synthetic person is presented as a writer. Accountability for every published sentence sits with the newsroom entity described on the newsroom page — a machine cannot hold it and is never asked to.
Where demonstration material written for an early interface study is still on the site, it carries a notice on the same screen, feeds no ranking, and is excluded from search indexing.
What this policy cannot do
A policy is a commitment about method, not a guarantee of accuracy. traderpublic is not a broker and is not licensed to give investment advice; nothing published here takes your circumstances into account, and trading leveraged products carries a high risk of losing money. Read the risk disclosure before you act on anything you find on this site.