Questions about how this site works

Because we are answering a different question. Other sites rank firms by whether they think the offer is good, which blends judgement calls about fees, spreads, support quality and Trustpilot ratings. We rank by how completely a firm documents its own rules. Those two questions produce different orders, and neither is wrong — but only one of them can be checked line by line.

No, and this matters. FTMO scores 62 largely because its payout terms are not on the objectives page we verified. They may well be published elsewhere on its site. Our score reflects what we have confirmed, so a low number frequently means we have more reading to do rather than that a firm is hiding something.

A star rating measures sentiment, which can be farmed, incentivised or brigaded, and it tells you nothing about whether a drawdown limit trails. We treat Trustpilot as Tier D: useful for spotting that something is wrong somewhere, never sufficient to state a fact.

A change applied backwards, to evaluations already passed or profits already earned under the previous terms. It is different from a change that applies to all accounts going forward, which is often unavoidable. We record both, separately, because they carry very different meanings.

Every record carries a last-audited date, shown on its review. Records older than 45 days display a staleness warning. Prop firm terms move weekly, so we would rather flag an old record than quietly present it as current.

They cannot, because the score is arithmetic over published facts with the weights printed on the methodology page. If a commercial relationship changed a score, you could catch it by re-adding the nine numbers.

Because the database is new and each record takes real reading. We would rather publish three firms that are correct than thirty that are copied from other comparison sites. Every entry here was read from the firm's own pages.

It means we did not find that fact on a Tier A or Tier B source. It is deliberately not the same as “no such rule exists.” Most comparison tables leave these cells blank or write “No,” which quietly turns a gap in research into a false claim about the firm.