Palo Alto · California — Independent Research Desk
PaltusTrade Research is an educational resource about trading and financial markets. We explain how markets function, how platforms are built, and how to evaluate them — with the PaltusTrade trading platform as one of the environments discussed in depth alongside twenty further brokerage brands.
Research campus
Our desk studies market mechanics and platform design. The PaltusTrade trading platform is one subject of that research — we are not affiliated with it.
Building A — Primary study
A full-length review covering interface design, market coverage, order handling, educational material and how the platform documents risk — written for readers who want description rather than persuasion.
Building B — Directory
Platform, markets, education, service, risk documentation and verdict — assessed the same way for every brand.
Open the directory
Building C — Library
Foundations first: how markets work, how orders behave, and how exposure is sized before any entry is considered.
Enter the libraryWe document how trading environments such as PaltusTrade present charting, order tickets and exposure data.
Every guide starts from position sizing and drawdown mathematics rather than from entry signals.
Twenty broker profiles reviewed with one consistent checklist, so comparisons stay honest.
No brokerage services, no deposits, no affiliation. Public information, documented openly.
Building D — Methodology
Three inputs — financial research, industry data and market analysis — applied through one published checklist, reviewed by a second editor before anything ships.
Reader pulse
Concept boxes
Study tool
A study tool for understanding how contributions, assumed returns and time interact. Illustrative only — capital is always at risk.
A compounding model for study purposes only. Change the inputs to see how contribution size, assumed return and time horizon interact. This is not a projection or a promise of results.
Modelled balance
$10,732
Compounding is illustrative. Real trading outcomes include losing periods, costs and financing charges. Capital is always at risk.
Education library
Eight structured guides covering the foundations, each referencing platforms such as PaltusTrade where relevant.
Foundations
01A plain-language explanation of the foreign exchange market: pairs, pips, leverage, sessions and the risks every beginner should understand first.
9 min read
Digital Assets
02How digital-asset markets differ from traditional venues: 24/7 sessions, custody models, liquidity fragmentation and realistic risk expectations.
10 min read
Strategy
03Trend following, mean reversion and breakout trading explained, plus how to turn a rough idea into a written, testable trading plan.
9 min read
Analysis
04Market structure, support and resistance, trend identification and the honest limits of indicators — a foundation for reading price charts.
10 min read
Risk
05The arithmetic of survival: risk per trade, stop placement, correlation, drawdown recovery and the rules that keep an account alive.
10 min read
Psychology
06Why disciplined traders still make emotional decisions, the biases that cost the most money, and practical routines that reduce them.
9 min read
Platforms
07From order ticket to fill: order types, routing, latency, spreads and the platform features that genuinely affect outcomes.
10 min read
Markets
08What volatility measures, why it clusters, how to size positions against it, and how to read volatility regimes without predicting them.
9 min read
Broker reviews
Each profile follows the same structure: platform, markets, education, service, risk documentation and verdict.
New profiles are added weekly — this month's batch is already the most-read section of the library.
Who writes this
Our contributors have backgrounds in market analysis, financial journalism and quantitative research. Every page is reviewed against published data and platform documentation before publication, and updated when the underlying material changes. We publish no affiliate links and accept no payment for placement.
Independent of PaltusTrade and of every brand reviewed here. No deposits, no accounts, no brokerage services on this site.