How every number on this site was taken
Each broker runs on its own MetaTrader 5 account on a machine that does not sleep. Bid and ask are sampled every second, continuously, and stored raw. A published figure is the mean over the stated window — nothing is smoothed, and nothing is copied from a broker's own marketing page.
- Instrument
- EUR/USD
- Window
- 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-25, continuous, UTC
- Sampling
- 1 second, MT5 tick stream
- Accounts
- our own, opened the same week
- Profile
- 10 lots a month
What we deliberately do not measure
Measuring a withdrawal honestly means depositing and withdrawing our own money at every broker in the table. We have not done that, so the axis reads no data rather than reprinting a broker's claimed processing time as if it were a finding. The same applies to support response times.
- Withdrawal timenot measured in this release
- Support responsenot measured · see methodology
Where the money comes from
One broker in these tables, FxPro, pays us a commission when someone opens an account through our link. It is measured on the same instrument, in the same window, on the same kind of account as the other nine, and where it loses — it currently loses on cost — that is printed in the same type size as where it wins. The other nine brokers are named and measured, and none of them is linked.