About the independent editorial team behind this review site
We take on a simple obligation: to test HFM openly, publish what we find, and answer to readers in the United Arab Emirates when they disagree.
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Every review published on this site begins with our own checks, not with materials supplied by the broker. We open accounts under our own control, read the terms that apply to clients in the United Arab Emirates, and walk through the parts of the service a reader would actually use: account opening, funding and withdrawal routes, the trading interface, order handling and the way support responds when something goes wrong. Where a claim can be measured, we measure it. Where it can only be observed, we say so and describe what we saw.
Scoring follows a fixed framework that we apply in the same way to every test cycle. Each category carries a weight decided before testing begins, so that a good result in one area cannot quietly cover a weakness in another. The score you see is the one that comes out of that framework; we do not adjust it afterwards to fit an impression. The written review explains the reasoning behind each mark, including the parts where the broker performs less well.
We keep our test records, including dates, screenshots and correspondence, so that a finding can be traced back to what produced it. If we cannot verify something, we do not score it as if we had.
How often we revisit what we publish
Brokers change their terms, their fees and their platforms without announcing it to reviewers. We therefore treat every page as a living document rather than a finished one. Each review carries the date of its last full test, and we return to the broker on a regular cycle to re-check the elements that most often shift: pricing, withdrawal processing, account conditions for UAE residents and the clarity of the client agreement.
Between full test cycles, we monitor for changes that would make a published statement wrong, and we correct the page when we find one. A correction is not hidden; the page is updated and the date moves with it. If a change is significant enough to alter the score, we explain why the score moved rather than silently replacing the number.
Readers should treat the date on a page as a promise about when we last looked, not as a claim that nothing has changed since.
How you can challenge what we publish
If you believe something on this site is wrong, we want to hear it. The contact form on this site reaches the editorial team directly, and a disagreement about a fact, a figure or a conclusion is treated as a serious matter rather than an inconvenience. Tell us which page and which statement you are contesting, and, where you can, what you rely on instead.
We will look at the underlying test record and at any material you provide. If we got it wrong, we correct the page and note the correction. If we stand by the finding, we explain the basis for it to you directly. We do not remove accurate content because a reader, or the broker, would prefer it gone.
This route is for editorial challenges. We do not answer account questions, we cannot intervene in a dispute with the broker, and we do not provide financial advice through it.
What we will not do, and how we pay for this site
We are not the broker. This site is not affiliated with HFM, does not open accounts, does not accept deposits and does not offer financial services or advice. Nothing published here is a recommendation to trade. We will not sell a verdict, we will not soften a finding in exchange for payment, and we will not publish a score we cannot defend from our own records. We do not accept arrangements that give the broker sight of a review before publication or a say over its content.
The site pays for itself through commercial routes that are kept separate from the editorial process. Where the site earns revenue from a commercial arrangement, that fact is disclosed on the page where it applies, and the arrangement does not determine the score. Our obligation runs to the reader in the United Arab Emirates who uses this site to decide, and that obligation is the reason the testing, the review cycle and the correction route above exist.
