About
This site works out what trading costs and what a prop firm challenge actually demands, from figures the firms and their regulators publish themselves. It carries affiliate links and says so. What makes it worth reading is not that it is impartial by disposition — it is that the parts a commercial arrangement could bend are the parts the code will not let bend.
One rule, enforced by the build
Every published claim traces to a primary source. Not as a policy — as a type. A figure without an https source and an ISO date cannot be constructed, the component that renders sources accepts nothing else, and the build fails rather than publish one. There are currently 55 distinct primary documents behind what you can read here, each shown with the date it was read.
This matters because the alternative is invisible. A plausible number on a comparison table looks exactly like a correct one, and nobody can tell them apart by reading.
What the rule cost
An earlier version of this site kept a database of broker spreads, commissions and swap rates — the ordinary thing such a site has. Roughly 1,900 figures were deleted from it, and the database with them, because they could not be maintained honestly.
Broker pricing is not published in any citable form. Of six brokers tested for automated collection, three were unreachable, one served a bot wall, and one rendered its table inside a hidden widget whose columns failed a consistency check. Swap rates live inside the trading platform and move weekly. A three-month-old spread in a comparison table is worse than no table: it looks authoritative and it is wrong.
So the calculator asks for your broker's actual terms instead of telling you someone else's. It takes about a minute to read them off your own platform, and the arithmetic never depended on where the inputs came from.
Why most pages are not in search
A broker or prop firm page becomes indexable only once it carries a fact of its own — a licence number checked against the register, a rule read from the firm's own document. Every page that has not earned that is built, visible here, and asks search engines to skip it. Before the gate existed, 34 broker pages shared 59% of their text on average, because the substance was regulator prose repeated on each one. That prose now lives once, on the regulator's page.
Currently 23 of 34 brokers name the entity actually licensed, and 14 of 15 prop firms have had their rules read — 52 programmes in all, against 9 regulators. That leaves 11 broker pages waiting on a licence number. The way this grows is not more words; it is one more fact established.
How it makes money, and what that does not touch
Some links are affiliate links, marked in the footer and disclosed again before you leave. Where a broker's regulator cannot be established, the link is not monetised at all and carries no affiliate tag, because the disclosure page would not be true.
Where pages end on a recommendation, the recommendation is computed. It ranks the programmes that page already discusses by the measure that page already showed, and names the winner — including firms this site earns nothing from, which is currently the case. Change the published rules and it changes. Sign a contract and it does not.
Things this site will not do
- Publish a figure it cannot show you the source and date for.
- Rank anything by what it pays.
- Count you. There is no cookie and no identifier — not even the daily hash of your address that most privacy-focused analytics use, because that is still derived from your address. It costs the ability to say “visitors”, so the numbers are called page views instead.
- Take what you type into a calculator. That is enforced by a check that fails the build, not by intention.
Who runs it
TradeWin is written and maintained by Javohir Rajabov as a research project into what prop firm and broker documents actually say. I am not a licensed financial adviser. The site carries affiliate links and discloses them on every page that has one.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, or a source no longer says what it said when it was read, tell us at rajabov4you@gmail.com. Accuracy is the whole product, and a correction is worth more than a compliment.
Risk
Trading CFDs and leveraged forex loses money for most retail accounts. Nothing here is advice or a recommendation to trade, and the figures on this site describe what firms publish, not what will happen to you.