How we collect our data

Where the information comes from

Everything on a listing comes from public sources you can check yourself. We don't buy data or use private submissions.

• The company's own website. Prices, account sizes, profit targets, drawdown rules, profit splits, platforms, payout methods and trading rules come from each firm's pricing pages, FAQs and terms.
• Regulator details. For brokers, the regulated entities and licence numbers are the ones the broker publishes, cross-checked against search results for the regulator's register where we can find them.
• Third-party review sites. Ratings and trader comments come from sites like Trustpilot, Forex Peace Army, Myfxbook, Sitejabber and TradingView, plus discussion on Reddit and YouTube.

How we collect it

We collect pages with our own crawler, ChartnautTrustBot. It identifies itself, follows each site's robots.txt, waits between requests, and never logs in or gets around a site that blocks it. If a site says no, we leave it out. Search results come from the Brave Search API.

Before a review page is used, we check it belongs to the right company, usually by matching the website address it reviews. Plenty of firms have similar names, and a review of the wrong one is worse than no review.

AI models then turn the collected pages into each listing and its summary. They work only from the pages we collected, never from what a model remembers, and every listing passes automated checks on its fields and values before it's published.

What the star ratings mean

We don't rate anyone ourselves. Every score on a listing is quoted from the review site named next to it, with that site's review count and a link to the page, so you can check it.

The overall rating next to a company's name combines those scores. Each site's score is converted to a 5-point scale and weighted by its number of reviews, so a site with 20,000 reviews counts for more than one with 12. Green means 4.5 or higher, lime 4 or higher, amber 3 or higher, and red below 3.

• When a review site has withdrawn or suspended a company's score, often because of suspected fake reviews, we leave that score blank rather than use an old one.
• Occasionally a score is quoted by another site because the review site doesn't show it in a form we can read. We only use it when the review count it quotes closely matches the review site's own count.
• Editorial scores from comparison sites aren't counted. They're opinions, not reviews.
• No info found means we looked and couldn't find anything trustworthy, not that the company is good or bad.

Keeping it current

Prop firms change their prices and rules often, and brokers change their accounts. Each listing shows when it was last checked, and we re-run the collection regularly. Always confirm the details on the company's own site before you pay for a challenge or open an account.

When a company closes, merges or rebrands, we take its listing down.

What this site isn't

It isn't advice. A listing isn't an endorsement, and a high rating doesn't mean a firm or broker is right for you. Trading carries a high risk of loss, and most prop firm challenges are failed. Everything here is gathered and quoted from other sources and isn't the opinion of Chartnaut.com.

Corrections and questions

If something's wrong or out of date, email [email protected] with a link to the listing, what's wrong and, if you can, where the right information is published. That goes for traders and for the companies listed. We check every report against the public source and update the listing when it's confirmed.

The full dataset is public as JSON at trust.chartnaut.com/content.json, and every page has a plain Markdown copy for AI tools, indexed at trust.chartnaut.com/llms.txt. If you cite it, please link back to the page.