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Independent broker reviews from working traders

OpesAdvisors is run by three traders who score brokers, exchanges and prop firms the way they shop for one themselves — with live capital, real withdrawals, and a fixed methodology applied identically to every platform.

  • 3 named traders
  • 10 scoring criteria
  • 100+ live orders per review
  • No sponsored placements

Who we are

OpesAdvisors is an editorial publication staffed by three full-time traders — one for forex, one for crypto, one for prop. Every review on the site is bylined by the analyst who tested the platform with their own funded account. There is no anonymous "editorial team" hiding behind initials; the work is signed.

We do not have a sales team, do not run sponsored sections, and do not let brokers preview reviews before publication. Reviews go live with the verdict we reach during testing — including the ones partners would prefer we soften.

The editorial team

Laura West

Laura West

Forex Trader & Reviewer

The difference between a broker's advertised spread and what you actually get at 9:30am London matters. I measure it.

Mike Volkov

Mike Volkov

Crypto Trader & Reviewer

I've wired money into exchanges in a dozen countries and watched what happens next: the delays, the hidden fees, the KYC walls. My job is to find out before you do.

Tom Nakamura

Tom Nakamura

Prop Trader & Reviewer

I'm not here to review prop firms as an outsider. I run funded accounts right now, across multiple firms. When I write about payout delays or rule changes, it's because I've lived through them with real capital on the line.

Full bios, qualifications and the instruments each analyst covers live at /authors/.

How we work

Every broker, exchange or prop firm we review is tested against a 10-criterion scoring framework with fixed weights — safety, fees, platforms, accounts, deposits and withdrawals, instruments, support, research, education and mobile. The same framework, the same weights, the same testing windows apply to platforms that pay us a commission and platforms that do not.

The full criteria, weight distribution and testing protocol are published at methodology. Brokers that fail multiple criteria are flagged in brokers to avoid, regardless of any commercial relationship.

Our independence

OpesAdvisors is reader-supported. When a reader opens a live account with one of the brokers, exchanges or prop firms we cover, the platform may pay us an affiliate commission out of its marketing budget. The commission does not change your trading conditions, fees or onboarding flow — the cost is identical whether you arrive through our link or directly.

The commission is not visible to the analyst writing the review. Scoring decisions are made before the commercial terms are reviewed. The full revenue model — including what we will and will not do for partner platforms — is documented at how we make money.

Editorial standards

Every published article carries an Updated date and is re-tested at intervals appropriate to the platform's volatility — spread checks are weekly for active forex coverage, monthly for stable platforms, immediately on any regulatory change. Corrections are public: if we get something wrong, we update the page and note the correction at the bottom of the article.

Detail on the testing cadence and the correction policy: our methodology.

Contact

Editorial enquiries, corrections, partnership questions, takedown requests and reader feedback all route through one address: [email protected]. Topic-routing detail and response-time SLA at contact.

Related: our methodology · how we make money · meet the analysts.