01
Source
Trace each claim to a primary regulator register, official terms, or a dated editorial record.
Methodology & trust
Read the evidence with its limits.
No broker score is published until a desk-checked record meets this standard. This is a research framework, not investment advice or a substitute for checking a regulator's register.
02
Review
Record when the source was checked and revisit material changes before a record can remain current.
03
Compare
Apply the same criteria to every published record; missing evidence remains visible rather than becoming a score.
04
Limit
State regional, account-type and evidence gaps. traderpublic does not infer that a broker is safe from limited information.
Current publication status
traderpublic currently has no desk-checked broker records and publishes no broker ranking. An absent record is not a positive or negative finding about a broker.
The commitments behind this method
A research standard is only as good as the rules the people applying it work to, and those are published separately so each can be argued with on its own terms.