Market Analyst
Juan Manuel Gonzalez
Juan Manuel Gonzalez compiles and scores the broker data on this site. Every fee is read from the provider's own published schedule and every legal entity from FINRA and SEC records, under the methodology published at /methodology, and each figure carries the date it was read. Where a schedule could not be read, the field is published as not verified rather than estimated.
The work behind the byline
Counted from the live dataset, last verified end to end on August 28, 2026. Every figure below is a link away from its source.
- 12
- brokers scored
- 42
- primary sources read
- 128
- fee figures verified
- 39
- pages published
The number that matters more than those is the one on the other side: 51 fee figures across the same brokers are published as not verified, because the schedule could not be read from a primary source. They are marked rather than estimated, and one researched broker is withheld from every ranking for the same reason. A body of work is as much what it declines to publish as what it does.
Selected work
- What It Costs to Leave Your Broker
- The Cost Nobody Puts on the Pricing Page
- The Account You Need May Not Exist at the Broker You Chose
- How to Check a Broker's Record Yourself
- What Actually Happens When a Broker Fails
- What Brokers Actually Charge to Lend You Money
What a byline commits to here
A named byline on this site commits its holder to having checked every cited figure against the source cited, and to having confirmed that each scoring rationale matches the evidence behind it. Where a figure could not be read from a primary source, the commitment is to mark it rather than fill it. The full standard is in our editorial policy, and any error in it is fixed under our corrections policy.