Editorial policy
Where our data comes from, which sources outrank which, and what we do when we genuinely do not know something.
Every number on this site is a claim about somebody else’s business, and prop firm terms change without notice. This page describes how we decide what to publish, how sources are ranked against each other, and — the part most comparison sites skip — what happens when the evidence is thin or absent.
Primary sources beat aggregators, every time
When two sources disagree, the higher one wins:
• 1. The regulator or company registry itself.
• 2. The firm’s own legal, terms, or rules pages.
• 3. The firm’s official help centre or announcements.
• 4. Direct written confirmation from the firm, labelled as such.
• 5. A reputable third party, used only where no primary source exists, and labelled.
This ordering is not decorative. We have had aggregator data on this site that was wrong by a factor of nine, sat unchallenged for two months, and was only caught because a first-hand figure contradicted it. A third-party price is now always outranked by the firm’s own checkout.
“We did not check” and “there is no such rule” are different facts
A blank field used to mean both, which quietly distorted the scoring: a firm with no consistency rule — a genuine advantage — scored the same as one nobody had looked at.
They are now stored separately. A verified absence counts in the firm’s favour. An unchecked field is excluded from the score entirely and the remaining weights are rescaled, so a gap in our research neither helps nor harms the firm.
Because that exclusion is invisible in a single number, every score also publishes a coverage percentage: the share of the scoring weight that came from verified data. A score built on 46% of the inputs is drawn differently from one built on 100%.
A company registration is not a financial licence
This distinction matters more than any other on the site, because “regulated” is the most reassuring word a trader can read.
We use “financially regulated” only where a named regulator authorises the firm and we have verified it. Where only an incorporation certificate exists, we say “company registration only” — and we say what that does and does not prove, next to the status rather than in a footnote.
As of this writing, no firm we list is financially regulated. That is not an omission; prop firms are largely unregulated as a category.
Every fact carries a date
Firm profiles show when they were last verified. Terms change without announcement, so a date is part of the claim: a drawdown rule checked three months ago is a weaker statement than the same rule checked last week, and you should be able to tell them apart.
Prices and rules are the most volatile fields and get rechecked most often. Where we could not reach a firm’s own source — some sites block automated access entirely — we say the field is unverified rather than filling it from elsewhere.
Commercial relationships cannot reach the score
The TC Score is computed by a database function from published trading conditions. It has no access to the campaign or partner tables. This is a structural separation, not a policy promise — the data the scoring function can read simply does not include who is paying us.
Every score is reproducible from its stored inputs, and the full working is published on each firm’s page: every component, the value we recorded, the range across all listed firms, and the weight it carried.
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