The Marketpedia trading blog

This page is the full library of desk writing in one place, listed newest first rather than sorted into themes. Every article below was researched the same way: accounts funded with our own money, spreads and commissions logged from live tickets, financing checked against the published swap tables, and a withdrawal requested before any firm is named in print. Nothing here is sponsored and no piece is edited after publication to suit a broker.

The articles are deliberately long. A two-hundred-word answer to a question about pricing, entity structure or execution behaviour usually leaves out the part that actually costs you money, so most pieces here run to three thousand words or more, with worked examples, diagrams and the underlying figures shown rather than summarised. They are written to be read once carefully rather than skimmed weekly.

If you are new to the desk, the cost and regulation pieces are the place to begin. Between them they cover the two variables that decide more retail outcomes than any strategy does: what you are genuinely paying per round trip once every charge is stacked, and which legal entity is holding your money if something goes wrong.

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