Affiliate Disclosure

Most outbound links from FXMARE to a broker run through our own tracked redirect at /go (for example, fxmare.com/go/pepperstone). When you click one of these links, you pass briefly through our redirect, which attaches a tracking reference so the broker's affiliate programme can credit the click to FXMARE, and you then land on the broker's own website.

These tracked links are marked up with rel="sponsored nofollow" and typically open the destination directly. The sponsored attribute tells search engines the link is a paid or commercial relationship, and nofollow tells them not to pass ranking signals through it. We use these attributes consistently so the commercial nature of the link is transparent to both readers and search engines.

Not every outbound link is an affiliate link. Links to regulators, official broker documents, source data, news and other reference material are ordinary editorial links and earn us nothing.

Using an FXMARE affiliate link neverincreases the price you pay, the spread you are quoted, your commission or any other cost. The brokers pay us out of their own marketing budget for introducing a new customer — it does not come out of your pocket. You receive exactly the same account terms, pricing and promotions whether you arrive through our link, through a search engine, or by typing the broker's address directly.

In a small number of cases an affiliate programme offers an exclusive sign-up bonus or improved terms for readers who use a partner link. Where that applies, it is a benefit to you, never a penalty for not using the link.

We believe you should always be able to tell when a link could earn us money. To that end:

• Page-level disclosure.Pages that compare or recommend brokers — such as our broker reviews and "best broker" comparisons — carry a clear affiliate-disclosure notice near the relevant links.
• Tracked redirect. Affiliate links route through the visible /go path, so you can see in your status bar that the link is tracked before you click.
• Link attributes. Every affiliate link uses rel="sponsored nofollow", the standard machine-readable signal that a link is commercial.

If you ever find a broker or product link on FXMARE that earns us a commission but is not clearly disclosed, please tell us so we can fix it.

This is the most important point on the page. Whether a broker has an affiliate programme — and how much it pays — has no bearing on the score we give it or where it appears in our rankings. We rate and rank brokers strictly against a published, repeatable set of criteria: regulation and safety of funds, real trading costs, platform quality, range of markets, execution, deposit and withdrawal experience, customer support and overall transparency.

That means we will rate a broker that pays us nothing above a broker that pays us well if the evidence supports it, and we routinely cover brokers we have no commercial relationship with at all. Our editorial and commercial functions are kept separate, and our writers are not rewarded for steering you toward higher-paying partners. You can read exactly how scores are produced in our broker review methodology, and see how this fits our wider commercial model in how we make money.

Any ranking or "best" label on FXMARE reflects our editorial opinion based on that methodology — not a paid placement, and not a guarantee of results for your circumstances.

We join affiliate or introducing-broker (IB) programmes operated by regulated brokers and by reputable financial-product providers. We do not knowingly promote unregulated brokers, and joining a programme is a commercial step taken after a broker has been assessed on its own merits — never a reason to assess it favourably.

The two most common ways these programmes pay us are:

• CPA (cost per acquisition).The broker pays a fixed one-off amount when a reader we refer opens and funds a qualifying live account and meets the programme's conditions.
• RevShare (revenue share).The broker pays us an ongoing share of the revenue it earns from a referred client's trading activity, for as long as the arrangement lasts.

Some programmes use a hybrid of the two, or pay a flat fee per qualified lead. The specific terms vary by broker and change over time. Importantly, the payment model has no influence on our coverage: a CPA partner and a RevShare partner are assessed against the identical criteria.

We aim to meet or exceed the disclosure standards expected by advertising and consumer regulators in the markets we serve. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that any material connection between a publisher and the products it recommends — including affiliate commissions — be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. Our page-level notices and tracked, attributed links are designed to satisfy that requirement.

In the United Kingdom, we follow the principles of the CAP Codeenforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) guidance on hidden advertising, which require commercial relationships to be obvious to the reader. Where content relates to financial products, we also keep our communications fair, clear and not misleading, in line with the spirit of UK financial-promotion expectations — while making clear that FXMARE is a publisher, not a broker, and provides information rather than advice.

You are always free to:

• Bypass our links entirely. You can navigate to any broker directly by typing its website address — you lose nothing by doing so, and you still get the same terms.
• Do your own due diligence.Always verify a broker's regulatory status with the relevant regulator and read its own documents before opening an account.
• Manage tracking. Our redirect uses tracking references and cookies to attribute referrals; you can control these as described in our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.

Supporting FXMARE through our links is entirely optional. When you do, it helps fund the free data, tools and research on the site — thank you.

If you have any questions about our affiliate relationships, or you believe a link has not been disclosed properly, please get in touch with our partnerships team at [email protected]. You may also want to read our Advertising Disclosure, Sponsored Content Policy and Editorial Policy for the full picture of how we keep commercial and editorial work separate. This disclosure may be updated from time to time; the "last updated" date above reflects the current version.