RAILSDESK
The desk
Five editors in Singapore, one beat each. No fee or rebate figure reaches the table until at least one of them has checked it against the venue's own published schedule.
Senior Editor, Brokers & Rebates
A decade-plus taking spread and commission structures apart, and the final check on every fee and rebate figure this desk publishes. His rule: any claim of 80% back has to name the base it is 80% of — a conclusion we cannot show the arithmetic for does not ship.
Editor, Regulation & Custody
Trained in law before moving to financial writing, and sets the standard by which this desk judges a venue. Every piece that names a platform states its jurisdiction, its client-money arrangement and where the protection stops. We do not publish the words guaranteed or risk-free.
Markets Editor
Translates macro into cost. Where spreads widen around NFP and central-bank decisions, how much of the Asian morning session is worth trading once the thinner book is priced in, and what a volatility regime does to a monthly fee bill. The market call stays short; the cost consequence is the point.
Editor, Platforms & Execution
Runs the hands-on testing: a small live account on MT4, MT5 or cTrader for two weeks, logging slippage, rejected orders, withdrawal times and how much of it survives on a phone. A platform nobody here has opened an account with does not get reviewed.
Editor, Crypto & Prop Trading
Covers exchange fee tiers, rebate settlement terms and prop-firm challenge rules. He reads the small print first — in most rebate agreements the line that decides what you actually receive is the one defining the settlement base, not the headline percentage.