Guides: the deposit, examined

Sixteen guides, each built on the dated dataset and the regulators' own publications — the method, the entities, the lists, the rails, and the rescue ladder. No rankings, no recommendations, no broker money.

Facts checked on October 22, 2026

How to check a broker before you deposit

The five checks, in order — the method the whole site is built on.

The first deposit checklist

The whole method on one page: 12 lines before any money moves.

What an offshore entity is

Seychelles, Belize, St Vincent, Vanuatu — graded honestly, and what 'no compensation scheme' means on a bad day.

Compensation schemes explained

€20,000, £85,000, and 'none' — what the funds cover and what they never do.

Read the legal footer in 60 seconds

The only honest page on a broker's website, and the sentences that decide your verdict.

Is this the real broker website?

The clone check: the two-minute register routine that survives copied licence numbers.

Broker won't let you withdraw?

The first-72-hours ladder, in the order that preserves your options.

Deposit small, withdraw first

The test-withdrawal protocol: the due diligence a platform cannot fake.

The advertised minimum is bait

Accepted vs viable minimums — and the $200–500 figure the affiliates print in their own footnotes.

How broker affiliates get paid

The $1,850 receipt: the published bounties behind 'best broker' lists.

Warning lists explained

How to read the RBI, FCA and Bappebti lists — and what absence from a list means (nothing).

Is binary options trading legal?

Banned in the EU and UK, unlawful off-exchange in the US, blocked by name in Indonesia. The map.

Depositing from India: the FEMA line

Why in India the deposit itself is the legal act — FEMA, LRS and the Alert List in plain words.

Depositing with GCash and Maya

The rail moves money, not protection. Round-trip arithmetic for the Philippines.

Depositing with PIX in Brazil

Conversion, IOF, and the CVM line behind the instant payment.

Depositing with M-Pesa in Kenya

The till number is not the licence. The CMA list behind the payment screen.

Before any deposit, run the whole check

The free check gives you the verdict for one country and one broker. The Deposit Safety Kit gives you the complete walkthroughs: how to verify the entity in the broker's own legal footer, where on your regulator's site the register and the warning lists live, how to read a compensation scheme, and the first-withdrawal test protocol — deposit small, withdraw first, then decide.

Included in the $39 Deposit Safety Kit

See the Deposit Safety Kit

Sources: the brokers' own legal and entity pages as published on the check date; the Reserve Bank of India Alert List; the UK Financial Conduct Authority Register and Warning List; the Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers; Bappebti (Indonesia) licensed and blocked lists; CVM (Brazil) declaratory acts; the FSCA (South Africa) FSP register; the Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) licensee list; the Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) advisory list; SECP/PMEX (Pakistan) membership; SEC Nigeria and Central Bank of Nigeria publications. Affiliate bounty figures from the programs' own published terms (Exness, XM, Plus500, eToro affiliate pages). If a fact has moved since our check date, the regulator's or broker's own publication wins — and write to help@doogex.com so we can correct ours.