Broker advertising increasingly reaches potential customers through trading educators, comparison websites, social media personalities, and market commentary. These channels can appear independent of the companies they promote, even when commercial...

A regulatory license is one of the first credentials a brokerage may display, but a logo or registration number on a website is not proof of authorization. Financial firms can...

A trading algorithm can run flawlessly on a home computer until the power fails, the internet disconnects, or the operating system restarts. Broker-sponsored virtual private servers promise continuous access to...

A product can disappear from a brokerage platform while the underlying market continues trading normally. The provider may be withdrawing an unpopular contract, losing access to a reference feed, or...