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How We Make Money
PipGauge is free to use. Here is how we plan to keep it that way — stated plainly.
The calculators on PipGauge are free, with no signup and no paywall. To fund the site we intend to earn commissions through broker affiliate partnerships: if you click a partner link and later open and fund an account, the broker may pay us a referral fee. This is the standard model for trading-tool sites, and we want to be upfront about it.
What we will and will not do
- We will not publish empty “best broker” tables, fake rankings, or broker cards without real, verifiable links. Until a partnership is live and the data is checked, you will see a neutral internal link to our methodology instead.
- We will not describe a broker as “best” or “top” without a published scoring method behind the claim.
- We will mark every affiliate link as sponsored and disclose the relationship next to the link, not buried in the footer.
- We will show the regulated entity, a current retail-loss-rate risk warning, and the date the information was captured beside any broker we feature.
How broker links will work
When partnerships are in place, a calculator may show a short call-to-action below the result — for example, a way to compare brokers' real trading costs. Those links will carry a sponsored tag and will be region-aware: brokers are only shown where they are licensed to operate. We do not direct offers at US persons.
Our independence
How a broker is presented or rated is set by our published broker comparison methodology, not by who pays the most. Where commercial relationships exist, we disclose them. If you ever find a result that seems influenced by a partnership, tell us and we will fix it.