Worked example
Practising on Hantec Markets's numbers
This is an exercise sheet, not a review. We are going to take three things that Hantec Markets 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
Hantec Markets 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. Hantec Markets offers 0 rungs. 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.
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 Hantec Markets's lines, each with a plain reading.
| Regulator | Entity on the register | Number | What that means for a beginner |
|---|---|---|---|
| FCA · United Kingdom | Hantec Markets Limited | 502635 | a top-tier regulator: compensation scheme, capital rules and a public register you can search yourself |
| FSC Mauritius · Mauritius | Hantec Markets Limited (Mauritius) | C114013940 | an offshore registration: a company exists and pays a fee, but expect little practical recourse from that entity |
| ASIC · Australia | Hantec Markets (Australia) Pty Limited | AFSL 326907 | a top-tier regulator: compensation scheme, capital rules and a public register you can search yourself |
2 of these lines are top-tier — held by Hantec Markets Limited, Hantec Markets (Australia) Pty Limited. If you are onboarded to a different entity than those, the protections attached to the top-tier line are not yours, however prominently the regulator's initials appear in the marketing. 1 line is offshore registration; treat those as a company address rather than as supervision.
The record behind these numbers
- Hantec Markets Limited is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference number 502635.
- Hantec Markets Limited is authorised as an Investment Dealer by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius under licence C114013940, per the broker's own privacy policy.
- Hantec Markets (Australia) Pty Limited holds Australian Financial Services Licence 326907, per the Hantec Group site.
- The Hantec brand states it holds six licences across jurisdictions including the UK, Australia, Mauritius, Vanuatu and Hong Kong.
- Hantec Markets states client funds are held in segregated accounts separate from company operational funds.
What we could not verify
The following are unconfirmed and are deliberately left blank rather than estimated: founding year; headquarters; minimum deposit; EUR/USD spread; account types; negative balance protection; Vanuatu and Hong Kong licence numbers. Confidence in this file overall: high. 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.