About BrokerSift
BrokerSift exists because choosing a broker is a research problem, and most "review" sites are ranking whoever pays the most. We publish structured, comparable data on brokers, crypto exchanges and prop firms — scored the same way, every time, so that two platforms can actually be held next to each other.
What is on this site
Three kinds of platform are covered: forex and CFD brokers, crypto exchanges, and proprietary trading firms. Each one gets a review built on the same structure — a quick-facts table, the regulation check, costs, platforms and instruments, funding and withdrawal, and what the platform is genuinely good and bad at.
Around those sit three other kinds of page. Comparisons put two platforms side by side on the facts that differ rather than on adjectives. Guides explain the mechanics a decision depends on: leverage, spreads and commissions, drawdown rules, exchange fees. Calculators do the arithmetic — position size, margin, pip value, profit and loss, drawdown recovery — because a number you worked out yourself is worth more than a number somebody asserted.
Everything is published in six languages. The facts are the same in all of them; only the wording changes.
How platforms are scored
Every platform is evaluated on the same five things, in this order: regulation and licensing, real trading costs, platform quality, the funding and withdrawal experience, and support.
Regulation comes first because it decides what happens when something goes wrong rather than what a trade costs. We record the exact legal entity on the account agreement, the regulator, the licence number, and whether client money is segregated — because a brand can hold a strong European licence and onboard most of its clients to an offshore company with none of the same obligations.
Costs are measured all-in, spread plus commission, rather than by whichever number the platform prefers to advertise. Structured facts come first and opinions are labelled as opinions. Where we can, we verify with live accounts.
A platform that fails the basic verification does not get a low score here. It does not get a review at all.
How BrokerSift makes money
Some outbound links are affiliate links, and we may earn a commission if you open an account through them. That is the whole business model, and it is stated here rather than in a footnote.
Ratings are set by the scoring rubric before any commercial relationship exists. A platform cannot pay to change its score, to move up a listing, to remove a warning, or to be added to a comparison it would lose. We do not sell "sponsored" reviews, and there is no arrangement under which a payment changes what a page says.
The reason this matters is structural rather than moral: a site whose rankings are for sale produces rankings that are worthless to the reader, which eventually makes them worthless to the advertiser too.
What this site is not
It is not investment advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to trade or a prediction about any market, and no page should be read as a promise about how a platform will behave with your money.
It is not a substitute for the regulator's own register. Licence numbers are verified when a review is written and are republished here so they can be checked, not so they can be taken on trust — the register is public and it takes a minute.
And it is not a live data feed. Spreads, fees and promotions change; every review carries the date its facts were checked, and anything time-sensitive should be confirmed with the platform before it matters to you.
Corrections
If a figure on this site is wrong, we want to know, and fixing it is the fastest thing we do. Email the editorial team at support@brokersift.com with the page URL and the specific figure — what it says, what it should be, and where that can be verified.
Corrections are made whether they help the platform or hurt it. A broker disputing a fee we published gets the same treatment as a reader reporting one: show the source, and the page changes.
Who writes it
The reviews are written and maintained by a small editorial team that trades, which is the reason the pages are organised around the decisions traders actually make rather than around what is easy to rank for.
That also sets the limits of what we claim. Where a fact could not be verified, the page says so rather than filling the gap with something plausible. An empty field is more useful than a confident guess, on a site whose entire purpose is to be checked.
Frequently asked questions
Are the reviews on BrokerSift paid for?
No. Some outbound links carry an affiliate identifier and may earn a commission, but scores come from the rubric before any commercial relationship and cannot be bought, changed or removed by a platform.
How are platforms chosen for review?
By whether readers are likely to be deciding about them, and by whether the basic verification passes. A platform whose licensing cannot be confirmed on a regulator's register is left out rather than published with a warning.
How current are the figures?
Each review records the date its facts were checked. Costs and promotions change, so anything that matters to a deposit should be confirmed with the platform itself before you act on it.
How do I report an error?
Email support@brokersift.com with the page URL and the specific figure, including where the correct value can be verified. Data fixes ship faster than anything else on this site.