Brokers

Brokers and Spreads

A broker is the middleman standing between you and the market, and the spread, the gap between the price you buy at and the price you sell at, is the most common way that middleman gets paid for the access. What a spread is The ask (teal) sits above the bid (red). The gap between them is the spread. ...

Bar chart of trust scores across all 11 brokers on the compare tool, Exness and IG highlighted

Two new brokers on the compare tool: Exness and IG, and where they don't fit

The Brokers compare tool started with nine brokers, mostly ECN-style firms built around the MT4/MT5/cTrader/TradingView stack that suits an EA or algo trader. A fresh round of research turned up five more candidates, and two of them earned a spot: Exness and IG. The other three, HFM, AvaTrade, and XM, didn’t, and I want to explain both calls rather than just drop two new rows into the table and move on. ...

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