How we choose
No scores. Sourced facts and a stated opinion.
Most sites in this niche rate products out of ten. We don't, for a simple reason: a number implies a measurement, and there is no honest way to measure “support quality” to one decimal place. A score dressed up as arithmetic is less honest than an opinion admitted to be one.
So the order on this site is editorial. It reflects what we think, and it is influenced by commercial relationships, which we disclose. What is not a matter of opinion is the pricing, the platform requirements, and what it all comes to per month — those are facts, they carry a source link and a date, and you should hold us to them.
How we verify claims
Primary sources only
Pricing and specifications are read from the vendor's own site, documentation, or filings — never from another review site. Each fact carries a link and the date we read it, shown in the review.
The total, not the headline
Software fee plus platform plus the commissions charged on every contract, shown per month because these are cancel-anytime subscriptions. We publish the assumptions the total rests on, so you can substitute your own.
Drawdown is published with return
A return figure without its maximum drawdown and the period it covers is not evidence, and we will not reprint one as though it were.
Live beats backtested
A verified live track record counts for more than a broker-audited statement, which counts for more than a vendor backtest. A backtest with no out-of-sample period tells you very little, whatever the curve looks like.
Everything is dated, and re-checked
Vendors change pricing and terms without notice. Every review shows when it was last verified so you can judge how stale it is.
Criticism is factual, not rhetorical
Where we are critical we state the specific, checkable thing and when we checked it. We do not publish accusations we cannot evidence, about anyone.
How compensation affects this
We are a for-profit publication. Partners pay to be listed and accredited, and we may earn a fee when you click through, submit a form, or buy. That compensation affects which products appear here and in what order, and it means the products on this site are not every product on the market.
What compensation does not do is change a sourced, dated fact. A price reads the same whether or not the vendor pays us, and if we get one wrong we correct it and re-date the page. Full disclosure.