Ardovex Markets: Unregulated by Its Own Admission, and ASIC-Listed
Verdict up front: Ardovex Markets tells you plainly on its own website that it is not regulated. ASIC agrees — it added Ardovex (ardovex.com) to its Investor Alert List as Unlicensed on 14 August 2026. The disclosure is unusually honest; the offer behind it — 1:500 leverage with no compensation scheme — is not made […]
Intrade24: FINRA Membership Claimed, No BrokerCheck Record
Verdict up front: Intrade24 states in its own footer that it is “a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA/SIPC”. We searched FINRA’s BrokerCheck register ourselves and found no record of it — zero results. The claimed head office is in Toronto, and the site advertises 1:200 leverage and a deposit bonus, neither of which a […]
Firm Apex Trades: Domain Suspended by Its Own Registrar
Verdict up front: Firm Apex Trades is offline. Its domain was placed on registrar client hold on 7 September 2026 — one day after a broker-monitoring service recorded it — and the site no longer loads. The domain was three months old. Three days before it went dark, Quebec’s securities regulator published a warning naming […]