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Forex and CFD trading carries a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. FX Recap publishes education and reviews, not financial advice.
A note from our founder
Ranjan NiskrityFounder, Owner & Forex Trader, FX RecapI'm Niskrity Ranjan, and I started trading back in 2001. I'll be honest about how it went: I lost everything. Every bit of money I put in, gone.
I could have walked away and called the whole market a scam, the way a lot of people do. Instead I stayed, and I got honest with myself about why I kept losing. The answer was simple and a little painful. I had no real strategy, no discipline and no patience. I was gambling and calling it trading.
So I started over, properly this time. I learned the strategies. I put in the hard work, day after day, and I built the one skill that's hardest of all to learn, which is patience. Slowly, one trade at a time, my failures started turning into something that finally looked like success.
I first dreamed of building a platform like this back in 2001, right when the market was handing me its hardest lessons. Life kept getting in the way, and it took me almost 25 years to make it real. FX Recap launched in 2025, and it's the resource I wish I'd had on my very first day. Everything on this site exists so you can skip the years of expensive mistakes I made and reach calm, disciplined decision-making a lot sooner than I did.
Ranjan Niskrity
Let's be honest about the market
The forex market is brutal. Most active traders never turn a profit. They walk in treating it like a casino, and the market is happy to take their money.
FX Recap exists to stop you becoming another one of those statistics. We close the gap between the overwhelming complexity of the markets and the calm, disciplined decisions you need to survive them, so uncertainty becomes something you can plan for and control, like a business instead of a bet.
It's a market, not a casino
A casino is built so the house always wins, with the odds fixed against you the moment you sit down. Forex is nothing like that. It is the biggest and most liquid financial market in the world, where trillions move every day on real forces: interest rates, inflation, trade, politics and the health of entire economies.
Nobody rigged it against you. It rewards what every serious profession rewards: preparation, analysis and honest risk evaluation. The people who lose are usually the ones who came to gamble in a place never built for gambling. Treat it as the strategic, calculated world it is, and the market stops feeling like your enemy and starts becoming your workplace.
Our mission and our vision
Mission: survival first, profit second
Keep you in the game. Most sites sell the dream of a Lamborghini; we sell the reality of risk management. We teach you to trade, and above all to protect your money from the avoidable mistakes that blow up accounts. We have all made them, which is exactly why we talk about them openly.
Vision: traders, not gamblers
A community where "retail trader" stops meaning "easy prey", and risk is a normal, manageable cost of doing business rather than a scary wall. Think of your capital the way a carpenter thinks of a saw: a tool you use carefully to build something real.
The code we live by
Integrity, no fluff
Straight, accurate information. If a strategy is risky, we say so. If a broker is shady, we call it out.
Objectivity: data over feelings
We do not guess. Every evaluation comes from research and real-money testing.
Radical transparency
We are open about how we work, how we test and how we earn from affiliate links.
Empowerment: you hold the keys
The aim is to give you the knowledge and confidence to run your own strategy, independently.
Why we are obsessed with risk
In forex, defence wins championships. Your money is your ammunition, and once it runs out, the fight is over. So we teach you to keep losses smaller than wins, which is how you live to trade another day.
Trading is a process, not an emotion. A solid plan kills the urge to chase losses with revenge trades. Over time that discipline builds patience and a thicker skin, so your account and your character grow together.
Informed decisions. Minimised risk. Maximised opportunity. That is the FX Recap way.
How the values show up in our work
Values only count if you can check them. This is where each one lives on the site.
One published scoring method
Every broker is rated with the same ten weighted parameters, set out in full in our rating methodology.
Five people on every guide
Each guide and review names its writer, market analyst, fact-checker, reviewer and the founder who approves it, so you know who stands behind it.
A public scam list
Firms that fail the basics go on our scam broker blacklist, whatever they offer us.
Free risk tools
Position size, drawdown and risk-reward calculators are free, with no sign-up. See the tools directory.
Disclosed commercial ties
How we earn money is set out in our affiliate disclosure and advertising guidelines.
Corrections on the record
Readers and brokers can report errors; confirmed mistakes are fixed and the page date updated.
What FX Recap will not do
- Sell a rating, a ranking or the removal of a review.
- Promise profits, returns or "guaranteed" strategies.
- Give personal investment advice or trading signals.
- Recommend a broker we would not trust with our own money.
- Hide a commercial relationship from readers.
- Pretend trading is safe. Most retail CFD accounts lose money.
Where to start
Mission and Values FAQs
What is FX Recap's mission?
To give traders the knowledge, tools and honest broker reviews to protect their capital first, so they stay in the market long enough to learn it and trade with discipline.
Who founded FX Recap?
FX Recap was founded by Ranjan Niskrity, who started trading in 2001, lost his first account and rebuilt his trading around strategy, discipline and patience. The site launched in 2025.
Does FX Recap give trading advice?
No. FX Recap publishes education, market coverage and broker reviews. It does not give personal investment advice or trading signals.
How does FX Recap make money?
Through affiliate commissions from some brokers and clearly labelled advertising. Neither affects ratings, which follow the published methodology.