A source-check date records when a stated fact was checked against a linked official page. It is not a guarantee of broker safety, execution quality or eligibility for every reader.
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What counts as evidence?
Account facts must identify an official source, the field it supports and the date it was checked. Promotional records also state the offering entity, qualifying deposit, credit cap, restrictions and any published end date. Broker-published regulatory statements are labelled as reported; they are not described as independently register-verified until that separate check has been completed.
How are missing or conflicting facts treated?
An unknown minimum deposit is null, not zero. Unknown and conflicting deposits are excluded from numeric filters. Different regions or account types are not silently combined. For example, conflicting VT Markets deposit figures are shown with both source links.
How often is information reviewed?
The current review interval is 30 days. After this interval, a source is marked overdue and a promotion is removed from active client listings and the next static build. A dated promotion is also excluded after its published end date. Static HTML needs a fresh deployment for these changes to reach crawlers. These are freshness rules, not a claim that a live broker page has been checked continuously. Scheduled checks report overdue records and unreachable sources; a new verification date requires a substantive review.
What do the figures mean?
Minimum spreads are advertised floors, not measured average execution costs. Commissions must specify whether they apply per side or round turn. A qualifying promotion deposit is not treated as an account-opening minimum. No review counts or aggregate ratings are fabricated from sample data.
What changed in this review?
Removed unsupported review counts and trust rankings, distinguished XTB zero minimum funding from a no-deposit bonus, identified conflicting VT Markets funding figures, and separated IC Trading from IC Markets. Previously advertised campaigns without confirmed terms are not promoted as current.
Limits and corrections
Some facts remain unconfirmed, including Fxview account terms and register checks for entities other than the specifically cited Vantage Global Limited entry. The pages identify those gaps rather than filling them with estimates. Send corrections with official evidence to [email protected].