There are quite a few articles, video reviews, and other information that distinguish a real brokerage company from a company that only pretends to be one. Unfortunately, not everyone is interested in this information and they start searching for it only after their first failure in trading.
A brokerage company can be registered anywhere, in an offshore zone (the most popular: St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Cyprus), in the Eurozone, Australia, or Russia, with differences in tax systems and political reliability of the registrar.
In any case, the registration certificate or a link to it should be easily accessible on the website. If there is no registration information, most likely you're dealing with a fake.
One of the most important criteria is aggressive marketing. It is impossible to guarantee profitability in any type of investment, as there is no mechanism that would 100% guarantee profits.
Any investment activity, from buying real estate to investing in financial pyramids, carries risks that are known in advance. Accordingly, you may get a profit, or you may not, there are no guarantees.
Money makes money only as a result of some activity, because income doesn’t come from nowhere.
There are companies that attract investments by convincing clients that they don’t need to do anything, and the profit will be automatically added to their account.
A great example is depositing money in a bank: you open an account, the bank uses your money and pays you a small percentage (from our point of view, this is not entirely honest, a percentage of the profit would be much more honest). Before you start trading, we advise you to clearly understand the mechanism of profit generation.
The broker must provide documents that describe its activities:
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