Editorial policy

SafeTrading publishes general research and education about trading forex, crypto and stocks. That covers how trading works, what it costs, how risk is managed, how regulation operates and how to check a provider before opening an account or paying for a service.

We do not:

• give personalized investment advice or tell individual readers what to buy or sell;
• provide trading signals, manage money or operate trading accounts for readers;
• present any trading approach or provider as free of risk.

Our content cannot take account of your circumstances. The risk disclaimer explains the limits of what we publish.

We prefer primary and authoritative sources, in roughly this order:

• regulators’ own registers, warning lists, enforcement notices and published guidance;
• legislation and official rules;
• a provider’s own published documents, such as client agreements, fee schedules, key information documents and order-execution policies;
• exchange and product documentation.

News reports, industry commentary and user reviews can add useful context. We identify them as such, and we do not rely on them alone for factual claims about a named business.

A factual statement about a named business, such as who regulates it, what it charges or where it operates, should link to the source it came from and say when that source was checked.

• Figures are given with the conditions they depend on: account type, instrument, region or date.
• Worked examples and calculations show their inputs and assumptions, so they can be repeated.
• If a claim cannot be verified, we say so or leave it out.

Trading rules, customer protections and product availability differ between countries. They can also differ between companies operating under the same brand. We therefore aim to:

• say which jurisdiction, regulator or legal entity a statement applies to;
• avoid presenting one country’s protections as if they apply everywhere;
• state uncertainty plainly when information is incomplete, out of date or contradictory.

We distinguish official findings, regulator warnings and unproven allegations, and we describe each as what it is. We do not call a business a scam without sufficient evidence.

When we change the substance of a page, such as a fact, a figure, a conclusion or the sources behind it, we update its date and, where the change is material, note what changed. Spelling fixes, formatting and design changes do not count as updates and do not change the date.

Errors are handled under our corrections policy.

If SafeTrading earns money from a business we write about, through a referral commission, sponsorship or advertising, we will disclose it on the page where it applies, not only in a general policy. Shared ownership is disclosed in the same way.

A commercial relationship can create a conflict of interest, and readers should be able to take it into account. The affiliate disclosure explains our current position.

Software, including AI tools, may help us gather sources, organize research, draft text and check calculations. Automated output is not treated as a source.

Before publication, factual claims are checked against the sources they rely on. We do not publish automatically generated pages without that review.

We name an author or reviewer only when a real, identifiable person has done that work. We do not use invented personas or describe credentials that have not been verified.