How we check what goes on a page

This site explains mechanisms rather than reporting prices. That choice decides everything below.

What kind of page this is

Every article here is an explainer. Its subject is how something works: what it is, why it exists, what it does to a position, and where people misread it. An explainer is not a price report, a venue review or a market comment, and it is not written to be any of those.

The one rule: nothing real gets a number

Slippage Desk does not run funded test accounts, does not time its own transfers and does not keep a price feed. It follows that we have no honest way to tell you what a particular venue charges today. So we do not tell you. No article here names a trading venue, a regulator or a jurisdiction, and no article states a fee, limit, processing time, licence or market figure as a real one.

That is a real limitation and we would rather state it once, here, than let it leak into pages as borrowed figures with no date on them. A fee schedule is published by the venue that charges it; that is where a current number belongs, and it is the only place it stays current.

Why the examples use invented numbers

A cost you cannot calculate is a cost you cannot plan around, so the explainers do arithmetic anyway. They do it with numbers the article makes up and labels as made up: "suppose a venue charges X", "say you hold a position of Y". The made-up figures are then carried all the way through the sum, so what you take away is the method rather than the amount. Put your own real figures into the same method and you have your own answer. Our calculators exist for exactly that, and they keep your numbers in your own browser.

How a page is produced, step by step

  1. The subject is chosen first. One mechanism, one page, from the list this site covers. We do not write a page because a phrase gets searched; we write it because the mechanism is worth understanding.
  2. A draft is written with an AI writing tool under the rule above, and told to explain rather than to list.
  3. A mechanical check runs. It rejects the draft automatically if it names a real company, regulator or country, states a figure outside a declared example, links to an outside page, contains an em-dash, or comes in short.
  4. A separate automated editor tries to reject it. It reads the draft against the same rules and looks for what the mechanical check cannot see: padding, a heading that exists only to carry a search phrase, hype, a prediction, a sentence that sends you elsewhere instead of explaining.
  5. One repair attempt, then it is held. A draft that fails is handed back once with the editor's reasons. If it fails again it is not published. Nothing reaches the site by being tried enough times.

What we will not do

  • We will not claim a measurement we did not make.
  • We will not say a venue is safe, cheap or best. We have no basis for it and neither has anyone who says it without numbers.
  • We will not pad a page with instructions to check elsewhere. If we cannot explain something, we leave it out.
  • We will not predict a price, because nobody can.

Limits you should know about

  • An explainer tells you how a thing works in general. Your venue, account type and country can change the specifics, and only your venue's own documents can settle them.
  • Mechanisms change. Where one does, the page is rewritten and its date changes.
  • Nothing here is financial advice. It is information to help you check things yourself.

Corrections

If an explanation is wrong, tell us and say which page. An explanation that is wrong is worse than no page, so corrections go to the front of the queue. How pages are written and reviewed is set out in the editorial policy.

Last updated 5 November 2026.