--- title: "About TheTraderWiki" description: "What TheTraderWiki is, how the site is funded without affiliate revenue, what it does not do, and where to send a correction." canonical: https://thetraderwiki.com/en/about/ lang: en kind: about published: 2026-09-05 updated: 2026-10-13 html: https://thetraderwiki.com/en/about/ json: https://thetraderwiki.com/en/about/index.json --- # About TheTraderWiki [Home](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/) › [About](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/about/) TheTraderWiki is an independent, free, educational publication covering [contracts for difference](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/glossary/#cfd) (CFDs) and [leveraged](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/glossary/#leverage) trading, and it appears in nine languages. A CFD is a contract with a provider that settles the difference in an asset’s price between when you open a trade and when you close it. Leverage lets you trade a much larger amount than you put down. The site exists because the people most likely to open a leveraged account see adverts and comparison tables, and very rarely a plain description of what the contract does. That plain description is what the site supplies, with the primary sources attached. ## TheTraderWiki at a glance TheTraderWiki at a glance: you need these facts first if you’re deciding how far to trust the site. - **Languages**: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic and Thai, with the same pages and facts in each. - **Countries**: We cover nineteen countries, the same ones our [broker comparison](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/compare-brokers/) covers. In Europe: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom. In Oceania: Australia. In Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. In South-east Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. - **Advertising**: None from CFD providers, brokers or trading-education businesses, and no affiliate or referral links of any kind, including on the broker comparison pages. An affiliate link pays a site for the customers who reach a broker through it. Where a page links to a broker’s own website, that link is there to show where a figure came from. - **Revenue**: TheTraderWiki takes no money from brokers. Its plan is to earn revenue by licensing its articles and other learning material to AI labs and other interested third parties, and to be paid a commission each time a user of their platform draws on that content. The same material stays free to read on this site. ## Editorial independence and funding Editorial independence at TheTraderWiki rests on one funding rule. From CFD providers, brokers or trading-education businesses, the site takes no affiliate revenue, no referral fees, no sponsored placements and no advertising. Elsewhere, the providers that a comparison page ranks almost always pay for it. TheTraderWiki does compare providers on its broker comparison pages, but it takes nothing from any of them and no provider pays to be listed. Where those pages link to a provider’s own website, the link is there to show where a figure came from, and it earns the site nothing. If that ever changes, the disclosure moves above the tables and this claim comes down. The site intends to fund its operations by licensing its articles and other learning material to AI labs and other interested third parties. It would earn a commission whenever a user of their platform draws on that content. We set out the arrangement here so you can judge it for yourself. ## What TheTraderWiki does not do TheTraderWiki doesn’t do five things that trading sites commonly do, and it leaves them out on purpose. - Give you personal advice, tell you what to buy or sell, or suggest that any strategy works. - Rank providers into a single “best” order, use affiliate or referral links, or accept payment for a placement. Providers are named and compared only on the [broker comparison pages](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/compare-brokers/) and in the broker reviews. The learning articles never name providers. Two reference pages also name providers: the [broker groups and regulators](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/broker-groups-and-regulators/) page and the [how we choose brokers](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/how-we-choose-brokers/) page. Every broker is checked against the same fixed baskets and fields, with figures read from its own pages. Anything a broker doesn’t publish is shown as not published. The groups we compare are those that meet [six published criteria](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/how-we-choose-brokers/). - Publish statistics it hasn’t sourced. Every figure on the site is cited to a primary document or labelled as a made-up example. The [payment rails](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/payment-rails-by-country/) registry shows the source for every rail it lists. - Give tax guidance for any country. Tax treatment varies by jurisdiction and depends on your circumstances, and it’s a matter for a qualified adviser. - Provide account support or handle complaints about a provider. Where those go instead is set out on the [contact](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/contact/#what-we-cannot-help-with) page. ## How to reach TheTraderWiki Corrections and press enquiries can be sent to TheTraderWiki by e-mail, using the addresses found on the [contact](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/contact/) page. We find corrections the most useful messages we receive. When you highlight a factual error, a dead source link or a figure that has changed, we fix it and record the change on the page. ## Related pages - [Contact TheTraderWiki](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/contact/): Corrections, press and data-protection addresses, what the site cannot help with, and where complaints belong. - [Terms of use](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/terms-of-use/): The licence to read and quote, the no-advice disclaimer, and the limits of accuracy and liability. - [CFD and forex broker comparison: leverage and platforms](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/compare-brokers/): Six brokers in nineteen countries, compared on facts you can check yourself. --- CFDs are complex, leveraged products, and the regulators’ own figures show that most retail accounts lose money. Nothing on TheTraderWiki is investment advice. Read the full [risk disclosure](https://thetraderwiki.com/en/risk-disclosure/), and if you’re unsure, talk to a qualified adviser. Broker details can change and they can be wrong. Before you open an account, confirm them with the broker and the regulator’s register.