Methodology
How pages here are researched: which sources count, how a page about a trading system is built, and what is deliberately not measured.
How pages on this site are researched and written, so you can check the work rather than trust it.
Where the information comes from
In order of preference:
- The thing itself. For software, the source code when it is available, the compiled file’s inputs, the included documentation and preset files. For a platform, its own specification and terminal behaviour.
- Primary documents. Platform documentation, regulator registers and notices, central bank releases, exchange specifications, a broker’s own contract specification page.
- Public marketplace data. Listing price, version history, publication dates and vendor history, read from the marketplace itself and dated.
- Secondary sources. Used only for context, always attributed, never as the sole basis for a factual claim.
A vendor’s marketing copy is not a source. It is the claim being examined.
How a page about a trading system is built
Every such page answers the same questions in the same order, so two pages can be compared:
- What it is, on which platform, for which instrument and timeframe.
- How the logic decides: entry condition, exit condition, what happens after a loss.
- Every input, its default and what it changes, in a table.
- Requirements: account type, spread, leverage, minimum capital, VPS, platform build.
- Installation and first run, including what to check before it trades.
- What breaks it.
- Who it suits and who it does not.
- Version history where it exists.
Where a fact could not be established, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
What is deliberately not measured
This site does not run or publish profitability tests. It does not rank products by returns, and it does not compute a score that implies one system earns more than another. The reason is in the editorial policy: with self-selected data and self-selected costs, such a number tells you about the tester, not the tool.
What is measured instead is verifiable and dull: what a setting does, what a broker requires, what a rule forbids, what changed between versions.
Original data
Where a page in research uses data collected here, it states the collection method, the period covered, the sample size and its limits, before it states any finding. Where coverage is partial, the page says what share it covers. A finding that cannot survive its own caveats does not get published.
Review and updates
Every page shows the month it was last reviewed. Pages that depend on things that change, such as platform builds, broker conditions or published rules, are revisited when those change. A correction that alters meaning is noted on the page.
Language
Plain words, short sentences, and jargon defined the first time it appears with a link to the glossary. If a page needs a glossary to be understood and does not link to one, that is a defect worth reporting through contact.