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Most traders can quote their broker's spread and none can state their annual cost. The second number is the one that decides whether a marginal strategy is profitable.

A managed account keeps your money in your name while someone else trades it. That is a real protection and it is often mistaken for a guarantee of everything else.

A broker rarely says it forbids scalping. It says orders must be held a minimum time, stops must sit a minimum distance away, and trades around releases may be reviewed.

Two account-level rules decide whether you can hold opposing positions and which one closes first. Both are invisible until they interfere with a strategy that assumed otherwise.

A win rate quoted without an average win-to-loss ratio is not a performance statistic. The two are traded against each other, and only their product decides whether a method makes money.

A stop-loss placed by the market's structure and a stop-loss placed by the size you wanted are the same order with opposite properties. Only one of them survives ordinary noise.

Verification is the step most traders complete carelessly at signup and then meet again, urgently, at their first withdrawal. Doing it properly once removes an entire category of delay.

A compensation scheme pays when a firm fails and cannot return client money. It does not pay when a trade goes wrong, and it does not exist in every jurisdiction.

Most broker marketing is unremarkable. A specific set of claims, however, reliably indicates either a regulatory problem or a business model that depends on client losses.

A bonus is a marketing cost the broker recovers through the conditions attached to it. Those conditions frequently apply to your deposit as well as to the credit.

Reviews describe a broker's terms; a small funded account tests them. Two weeks and a modest deposit produce more usable information than any comparison table.

A prop challenge converts a capital problem into a rules problem. Whether that trade is worth making depends on constraints most participants only discover after paying the fee.