Research Purpose

This initiative exists to document and analyze the actual trading conditions retail traders experience across global forex broker infrastructure. We collect metrics directly from broker-provided terminals — no simulations, no vendor claims, no marketing filters.

Our goal is technical transparency: to provide raw, comparable data that helps traders understand the environment they operate in, independent of broker messaging.

Collected Metrics

We continuously poll broker servers via terminal connections to capture:

Methodology

Data Source Terminal API polling via authorized retail accounts

Frequency Real-time + scheduled historical snapshots

Validation Cross-terminal verification, outlier filtering, timestamp alignment

All data reflects conditions as delivered to end-user terminals. We do not modify, interpolate, or "clean" observations to match broker documentation — discrepancies are part of the findings.

Intended Use

This dataset supports:

• Algorithmic strategy backtesting with realistic execution assumptions

• Comparative broker infrastructure analysis for institutional due diligence

• Academic research on retail market microstructure

• Personal trader education on hidden cost factors (spread volatility, swap asymmetry, etc.)

We do not rank, endorse, or criticize brokers. We report what the terminals report.