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What separates a broker worth using from one that merely advertises

Choosing a broker is not really a choice about spreads. Spreads are published, comparable and largely similar; what differs is what happens when you want the money back, whether a regulator would act if it did not arrive, and what an overnight position quietly costs you while you hold it. Our broker rating weights those first, which is why its order does not match the lists ranked on headline trading costs.

The same applies to funded accounts. A prop firm sells a profit split, and the number is real, but it is not what decides the outcome — the drawdown rule is, and firms frequently run different rules on different products under one brand. We wrote the drawdown rules out in full for exactly that reason: the same trading either passes or closes the account depending on which model you bought.

Copy trading sits in the same category of decision. A strategy posting a huge percentage is not automatically a good one, and the accounts on this site are judged on whether they survive a bad month rather than on what they returned in a good one.