Editorial Policy and Guidelines

How We Make Our Content

Our team creates content with assistance from large language models (LLMs) and other data aggregation services and testing tools. The team decides what is published, and the team also sets the ratings methodology and the ranking rules. The ratings methodology is documented on our methodology page.

Who Is on the Team

Here is who does what at CompareForexBrokers.

• Justin Grossbard, Co-Founder and CEO, co-founded CompareForexBrokers with Noam Korbl in 2014. He has been trading since 1998 and has been published in Forbes, Kiplinger and Finance Magnates. He oversees the strategic direction of the business, and he is the named author on the site’s reviews and guides.
• Noam Korbl, Co-Founder and COO, manages operations and regulatory compliance.
• David Levy, Head of Content, manages the site’s content. He cross-checks figures, refreshes existing content, maps out the content calendar and keeps the writers on track. Before forex he worked in IT, at IBM in capacity planning and at ANZ as a process improvement analyst.
• Ross Collins, Chief Technology Researcher, has over 35 years of experience in information technology, including SWIFT, UBS, PwC and IBM.

You can see the full team on the Meet the Team page.

How We Score Brokers

Every broker we rate gets a published rating out of 100, worked out from eight category scores weighted as in the table below. The table shows each category’s name and how much it counts towards the overall rating. Whether a broker pays us is not one of the eight inputs. 75 brokers carry a published score on the site today.

Some of the abbreviations on this page are expanded to the regulator's full name: a broker regulated by CIRO is regulated by the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization.

In a few cases the owners have set a category score or a published rating by a recorded decision. Where a broker’s published rating differs from its category-weighted score, the broker’s review states both numbers and calls the gap an editorial adjustment. Where a category has no score, it is left out, the rating is worked out over the categories that were scored, and the review says which categories are unscored. The methodology page documents how the scores are built.

Our 2026 Execution Test

Our 2026 execution test used Expert Advisors on MetaTrader 4 demo accounts, which were not funded accounts, at 36 brokers over two 30-hour periods, and measured the average time in milliseconds from placing a limit or market order to its execution, with network latency (ping) subtracted. The method is documented on our methodology page.

Where Our Figures Come From

Our figures come from four kinds of source, and our 2026 execution test is our own measurement.

• Brokers’ own websites, documents and published fee schedules. Every EUR/USD spread in our comparison table is the broker’s own published figure, labelled with what it is (for example “advertised” or “advertised minimum”), except in two cells. Exness’s cell has shown Myfxbook’s session averages since September 27, 2026 and is labelled “Myfxbook average”, and Fusion Markets’s cell shows our own average of the 515 hourly averages it published from August 27 to September 25, 2026.
• Regulators’ own registers. Our country pages read licence status from the registers of the CFTC and NFA (United States), CIRO (Canada), MAS (Singapore) and the FMA (New Zealand), and we record the date each register was read.
• Regulators’ own rule documents, cited with the date we read them where a page states a regulatory limit.
• Third-party data services, named on the page that uses their figures.

How We Rank Brokers

Our comparison tables list brokers by our published rating, highest first, unless the page states a different rule. Pages that use their own rule state it on the page. For example, our platform pages put our editors’ pick first and then order by rating, the high-leverage page ranks by the maximum retail leverage a named, regulated entity states, and the fee comparison ranks by the total cost of one standard lot. The lowest-spreads page ranks by the average EUR/USD raw spread each broker publishes (Myfxbook’s average for Exness), lowest first, with brokers that state how and when they measured coming first. Which brokers a page includes, and any editors’ pick, is the team’s decision.

Fact-Checking and Sign-Off

A page shows a fact-check credit only after David Levy has checked that version of the page. Each check is recorded in a sign-off register with David’s date and the scope of what he checked. If the page later changes in substance, the credit comes off until he checks the new version.

How We Make Money

We may receive a referral fee from a broker when you click through and open an account. The Advertiser Disclosure page explains how the site makes money and lists broker partners, and every broker review carries a line saying our reviews are reader-supported, linked to that page.

Corrections and Updates

Our reviews and guides carry a byline naming the author, linked to the author’s profile page, and the date the page was last updated. That date moves when the substance of the page changes, not for a cosmetic edit such as a spelling fix.

If you find a factual error, tell us through the Contact page, with the page URL and a description of what is wrong. When we confirm an error, we correct the page.

How Long We’ve Been Doing This

CompareForexBrokers has compared forex brokers since 2014. 59 brokers appear in our global comparison table.

If you want more detail, you can read our About Us page and Why Trust Us page, our Terms of Service, our Risk Disclaimer, and the full methodology behind our ratings.