Understand what you might pay, to whom and why

Software. Access to the Zeniteri workspace and the tools on this site is free (£0), and so is registering. There is nothing to pay Zeniteri to use them.

Account funding. This is the money you place with a broker in order to trade. It is your capital rather than a fee, and you can lose it. Zeniteri takes no deposit and does not hold client money, so no deposit is made with us.

Broker fees. The broker charges for trading: spreads, commissions, financing charges for positions held open, and sometimes charges for deposits or withdrawals. They vary by product and are set out in the broker’s own documents.

A free tool should never be read as a sign that trading itself is free.

An illustrative example, not a price from any broker. Suppose you can buy a unit at 100.10 and sell it at 100.00. The 0.10 gap is the spread. If you buy 125 units and close the position straight away, you lose about 125 × 0.10 = €12.50 before price has moved at all, assuming each unit is worth €1.00 per 1.00 of price movement.

That small sum is a good reason to keep every cost in view. Costs reduce what you keep from a gain and add to what you lose when a trade goes against you, which is why the recovery lens says its figures would be higher once costs are included.

Think of three layers. The top layer is any price for the software, which for Zeniteri is nothing. The middle layer is the money you commit as capital, which you hope to keep and may lose. The bottom layer is the running cost of trading: spreads, commissions and financing. Only the first is a price for Zeniteri; the other two depend entirely on the broker that holds your account.

When comparing options, compare all three layers, not just the headline figure. A tool with no charge can still sit on top of expensive trading, and a broker with low costs is still a risk to your capital.

Whoever you choose, ask for the full schedule of charges in writing. Ask how the spread behaves when markets are busy, what financing costs apply overnight, whether there are charges for withdrawing and how long withdrawals take, and how your money is protected if the broker fails. A broker that answers clearly and links to its documents is behaving better than one that does not.