Worked example
Practising on Fondex's numbers
This is an exercise sheet, not a review. We are going to take three things that Fondex publishes — a spread, a ladder of account types and a list of licences — and turn each of them into something you can do arithmetic with. By the end you should be able to repeat the whole exercise on any firm you come across, which is the actual skill being taught.
The figures we are working from
Nothing below is our estimate. Where a firm has not published something, or we could not read it on a source we trust, the box says so instead of guessing — a habit worth copying when you build your own broker notes.
Exercise one — turn the spread into money
Fondex does not publish a EUR/USD spread we were able to verify, so there is no honest arithmetic to do on this page. Do not substitute a number you read on a comparison site: an unverified spread quietly becomes an unverified cost, and then an unverified plan. Use one of the other examples on the practice index for this exercise and come back to this file for the account ladder below.
Exercise two — read the account ladder
Account tiers are a pricing structure dressed as a status ladder. Fondex offers 1 rung. Read them as a question — what does each rung ask of me, and what does it give back? — rather than as a set of prizes to climb towards.
- DemoThe entry rung. Whatever the published spread applies to, it is almost always this one — so this is the rung your arithmetic above describes.
Account names as published: Demo. Platforms listed: cTrader.
Exercise three — what this licence list means for you
A long licence list is not automatically a good sign. What matters to a beginner is a narrower question: which entity would hold my money, and who supervises that entity? Those are often not the same as the impressive name at the top of the list. Here are Fondex's lines, each with a plain reading.
| Regulator | Entity on the register | Number | What that means for a beginner |
|---|---|---|---|
| CySEC · Cyprus | TopFX Ltd | 138/11 | a mid-tier regulator: real supervision and a register, usually with a smaller or capped compensation scheme |
| FSA Seychelles · Seychelles | TopFX Global Ltd | not verified | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
No top-tier line appears on this file. That does not make the firm illegitimate, but it does mean the compensation-scheme and capital-rule protections a beginner usually assumes are present are not evidenced here. 1 line is offshore registration; treat those as a company address rather than as supervision. We could not confirm a licence number on 1 line, which is exactly the kind of gap you should close yourself on the regulator's own register before depositing.
The record behind these numbers
- Fondex is a trade name associated with the TopFX group in Cyprus; TopFX Ltd's own risk disclosure states it is authorised and regulated by CySEC under licence number 138/11.
- The Seychelles FSA register page previously indexed as Fondex Limited now resolves to TopFX Global Ltd, listed as a Securities Dealer (checked 9 August 2026).
- Fondex's own website did not load over several fetch attempts on 9 August 2026, so no figures were taken from it.
- Fondex marketed a single commission-based account on the cTrader platform.
What we could not verify
The following are unconfirmed and are deliberately left blank rather than estimated: founded; minDeposit, spreadEurusd, accountTypes — Fondex site unreachable; Seychelles FSA licence number; segregatedFunds and negativeBalanceProtection; current status of the Fondex brand; negative balance protection. Confidence in this file overall: low. When you build your own notes on a firm, keep a list like this one — the gaps are more useful than the figures, because they tell you what to go and check.
Run the same exercise on another firm
PipMentor does not rank brokers, does not award badges and does not tell you where to open an account. This page exists so the arithmetic you learn in the curriculum has real numbers to bite on.