This DravoTrader editorial policy explains how every guide on the site is produced and maintained. We publish it so readers can judge our work for themselves, the same way we ask them to judge any firm that wants their money.
Where our information comes from
We work from primary sources wherever possible: rules and warnings published by financial regulators, exchange rulebooks and trading-hour notices, protocol documentation for blockchains, issuers' own disclosures, and official statistics. When a guide relies on a specific rule, limit or date, the source is named at the foot of the page. We do not link out from articles, so each source is given by name for you to look up directly.
How a guide is written
- Scoping. We decide what a reader needs to understand and what could cost them money if misunderstood.
- Drafting. Drafts may be produced with the help of AI writing tools. We treat an AI draft as a starting point, never as a source.
- Editing. A member of our editorial team rewrites for clarity, checks each factual claim against its source and removes anything that cannot be supported.
- Numbers. Every worked example is recalculated independently, and every calculator is tested against hand-worked cases. Examples are labelled illustrative and are never forecasts.
- Safety review. Pages about leverage, crypto or choosing a firm are checked for clear risk warnings and for anything a fraudster could quote out of context.
Independence
DravoTrader has no commercial relationship with any broker, exchange, wallet or app. We accept no payment, affiliate commission, free service or sponsorship in return for coverage, and we do not rank or review real firms. Mentions of regulators, public registers or widely used software are there only so that readers know what to check.
What we never do
- Publish price predictions, trading signals or tips on specific coins or shares.
- Invent statistics, testimonials, credentials or people.
- Offer accounts, trading or any financial service, or imply that we do.
- Present worked examples as real results.
How the calculators are built and tested
Each calculator on the site uses a published formula that is printed on its page, so the working can be checked by hand. Before a calculator goes live, and again whenever it is changed, we run it against a set of cases worked out separately, including yen pairs, cross pairs and gold, where conversion mistakes are most likely. The calculators run entirely in your browser; the figures you type are not sent to us or stored.
Standards for safety content
Many readers reach DravoTrader while worried about a firm or a contact. Pages about scams and broker checks therefore follow extra rules. We describe how schemes work and how to check a firm, but we never declare a named company safe or fraudulent, because we cannot verify that from the outside and a wrong answer could cost a reader money. We point readers to the bodies that can act: banks, the police and national regulators. We do not publish contact details for private "recovery" services of any kind.
Updates and corrections
Rules change, and we review guides when regulators, exchanges or protocols announce changes relevant to them. The date at the top of each guide shows when it was last updated. If you find a mistake, write to us through the contact page; confirmed errors are corrected promptly, and material corrections are noted on the page.
More about who we are is on the about page. For the limits of what our content can be used for, see the disclaimer.