Guide

How the 'best broker' list is priced

Every ranking you have read was written inside a payment system. The rates are not secret — the programs publish them. Here they are, and here is what they do to the truth.

Facts checked on October 22, 2026

This site exists because of one structural fact: the comparison layer is paid per deposit. A page that tells you not to deposit earns nothing and burns its highest-value conversion. So the honest verdict — 'your regulator lists this platform', 'your entity has no compensation fund' — is the one sentence the layer cannot afford. We can afford it: we sell a $39 kit and take no broker money.

The published bounties

Exness's affiliate program pays up to $1,850 per funded account, plus up to $45 for a mere registration lead. XM pays $25–$1,000 per client by region, or up to 60% revenue share for the life of the account. Plus500's official affiliate program pays up to $800 per 'Qualified Trader' — a first deposit plus trades. eToro pays up to $250 CPA or 25% revenue share. These are the programs' own published terms, checked on October 22, 2026.

What the money does to a ranking

In Brazil, an affiliate network ranks Axi #1 — and discloses on the same page that Brazil's CVM acted against Axi-related companies for soliciting Brazilians without authorisation, explaining that the rank is about 'international trading features'. In India, affiliate pages recommend XM and Exness to beginners while the RBI Alert List names both as unauthorised for residents. Nothing here requires bad faith by individuals; the incentive gradient does the work. A ranking is a price list read upside down.

How to read any broker content now

Ask one question of every review, video and list: what does this page earn if I deposit, and what does it earn if I don't? If the first number is large and the second is zero, read the page as advertising — including its 'cons' section, which exists to make the advertising believable. Then run the pair that page never asks about: your country × the broker.

The trap

Revenue share is the quietest conflict: an affiliate on 60% lifetime share earns most from clients who trade often and lose slowly — precisely the outcome the content is supposedly helping you avoid.

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.