Review sites do real work: they open accounts, test execution, and publish spread tables. The limitation isn't effort — it's physics. A spread table is a photograph of a moving target.
✓ Genuine research: regulation checks, account-type breakdowns, fee structures.
✓ Helpful for the one-time decision of opening an account.
✓ Free.
— Measured once, on someone else's account, at hours you may never trade, weeks or months ago. Gold spreads breathe minute to minute; an average hides exactly the moments that cost you money.
— No live view, no reference comparison, no way to know what conditions are as you act.
— A review can't tell you that your broker's spread just left the pack at 14:32 today — which is the moment that matters.
Read reviews when opening or switching accounts — they're the right tool for the once-a-year decision.
Use OrderVolume for the twenty-times-a-week decision: is this moment an ordinary one to act in? We measure your broker every two seconds, continuously, against an exchange-derived reference — a live instrument, not an article.
"They tested a broker once. We test yours every two seconds."