About Thika Signup

Who runs this desk

Thika Signup is run by a small editorial desk that writes and checks its own pages about gold (XAU/USD) trading. It is not a company you can open an account with, and it holds no client money at any point.

The desk is not a broker, not a bank and not a licensed investment adviser. Nothing published here is personal advice, and no page on the site is written for one reader's circumstances.

How the desk is paid

Affiliate links are the only revenue the desk has. When a reader follows a link to a broker and later opens an account, the broker may pay the desk a referral fee, and that fee costs the reader nothing extra.

The fee is the reason the site can exist, and it is also the reason every page states plainly that the desk is not independent of the brokers it writes about.

What payment does not buy

Payment never buys a rating, a better position in a comparison or a softer sentence about a weakness. A broker that pays a referral fee and a broker that pays nothing are judged against the same checklist.

If a weakness is found in a broker's offer for Kenyan residents, it is written into the page in the same words whether or not that broker has an affiliate arrangement with the desk.

How This Desk Is Run and Who Decides What Gets Published

Thika Signup is run as a small editorial desk, not a trading floor, and every published decision is made by the writer who signs the piece and a second editor who checks it before release. The desk does not employ sales staff, account managers or affiliate recruiters, so no one has a commission reason to soften a risk warning. Decisions on what to cover start from reader questions sent to the desk and from the gaps we can see in existing Kenyan trading material, not from a broker's marketing calendar.

Every article is decided by two people: the writer who researched it and a reviewing editor who has not written on that topic that month. The reviewer's job is to reject anything that cannot be traced to a stated fact or a named source, and to cut any sentence that promises an outcome. When the two disagree, the piece does not publish until the disputed claim is either sourced or removed. That rule is why some drafts take longer than a single sitting to appear.

The desk's working rule is that no single person can publish a number about gold, leverage or costs without a second pair of eyes on it. That applies to the reference price of 4275.0 for XAU/USD, to the 0.10-lot margin figure of about $85.50, and to any statement about the regulator. The second reader checks the arithmetic and the wording separately, because a correct sum written as a promise is still wrong for this site.

The Editorial Standard a Number Must Meet Before It Appears Here

A number appears on this site only if it is either supplied to the desk as a fixed fact or described as something that depends on conditions the reader can check. The gold contract size of 100 oz per standard lot and the pip value of 0.01 are fixed facts and are written the same way every time. A margin figure such as the roughly $85.50 needed for a 0.10-lot position is tied to the leverage cap that applies to the entity serving Kenya, and we say so rather than presenting it as a universal constant.

Where we were not given a figure, we do not manufacture one. Spreads, commissions, swaps and minimum deposits are described by what they consist of and what they depend on, such as the account type, the platform and the time of day, never as a number we cannot source. That is a deliberate limit, not an oversight. A reader who needs the exact cost for their own account should confirm it with the broker directly, because it changes with the account and the order.

The standard also covers what we refuse to call a number. Words like competitive, tight, low or best applied to a cost are treated as unsupported claims and are removed, because none of them can be verified from the facts the desk holds. If a sentence needs one of those words to work, the sentence is rewritten to say what the cost consists of instead. This keeps the page honest even when a plain description reads less smoothly than a sales line would.

How the Site Is Funded and Where That Funding Stops

The site is funded by the desk's own editorial work and by reader support, and no broker pays for placement, ranking or a favourable mention. Funding covers research time, the second-reader check and the cost of keeping the pages current. It does not buy a paragraph, a heading or a conclusion. If a funding source ever changed, the change would be stated on this page before it affected a single article, because a reader cannot judge a recommendation without knowing who paid for it.

Funding has no influence on which risks we lead with. Gold trading on leverage can lose more than the margin committed, and that warning sits in the same place whether or not the desk has had a good month. The worked margin figure of about $85.50 for a 0.10-lot position is published because it helps a reader size a trade, not because it makes trading look accessible. The cap on leverage is described as a cap, not a target, in every piece the funding supports.

The one thing funding does affect is how much we can publish. A funded month means more second-reader time and more corrections processed; a thin month means fewer new pages and slower updates to existing ones. It never means a softer sentence about risk. Readers funding the site through M-Pesa are funding the checking process, not a verdict, and the desk treats that distinction as the whole point of the arrangement.

How to Challenge Something Published on This Desk

To challenge a published claim, send the desk the page address, the exact sentence and the reason you think it is wrong, and the desk will re-check it against its stated facts rather than against opinion. A challenge that cites a source, a calculation or a regulator's wording moves fastest. The desk replies to every challenge it receives, including the ones it decides not to act on, and it says which of the two happened and why.

Challenges about numbers get priority. If a reader believes the margin example for a 0.10-lot gold position is wrong, the desk will show the arithmetic behind the roughly $85.50 figure and the leverage cap it assumes, then correct the page if the working does not hold. If a reader believes a cost has been implied rather than described, the desk will check whether an unsupported word such as low or competitive slipped through and remove it if it did.

Corrections are published on the page itself, not buried in a separate notice, so a reader who arrives later sees the corrected version first. The desk does not delete a challenged sentence quietly; it either sources it, rewrites it or removes it, and the page reflects which. Challenges about the regulator caveat are treated the same way: the line that FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA but not by the CMA of Kenya is checked against the source each time it is questioned.

What This Desk Will Not Publish About Gold or Leverage

The desk will not publish a leverage ratio other than the cap that applies to the entity serving Kenya, and it will not present that cap as a setting a trader should aim for. Leverage magnifies both gains and losses, and a cap exists to limit how far a position can run against an account, not to signal a comfortable level of risk. Any page that implied otherwise would be corrected or withdrawn, because the distinction between a ceiling and a target is the difference between a warning and a sales pitch.

The desk will not publish a spread, commission, swap or minimum deposit as a number, because none of those figures were supplied as fixed facts and each depends on the account, the platform and the order. MT4, MT5, cTrader and the FxPro app can each show different conditions, and a single figure would mislead a reader who trades on a different setup. The honest answer is to describe what the cost consists of and tell the reader to confirm it with the broker.

The desk will not publish a promise of profit, a guaranteed return or a recovery claim, and it will not describe gold as a safe store of value in a trading context. XAU/USD moves, and a position can lose more than the margin set aside for it. The reference price of 4275.0 is a marker for arithmetic, not a forecast. Readers in Kenya funding an account through M-Pesa should treat every deposit as money at risk, not as a subscription to an outcome.

How Readers in Kenya Should Use What This Desk Publishes

Use this site as a checklist before you trade, not as a signal service. The pages give you the contract size of 100 oz per standard lot, the pip value of 0.01, a reference price near 4275.0 and a worked margin example of about $85.50 for a 0.10-lot position at the applicable cap. They do not tell you when to buy or sell. A reader who leaves with a better sense of what a position costs to hold has used the desk correctly, and one who leaves with a tip has been failed by it.

Check the regulator line before you fund anything. FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA, not by the CMA of Kenya, and that caveat is stated on every page where it matters because a Kenyan reader should know which authority stands behind the entity serving them. Local funding through M-Pesa is a familiar route, but familiarity is not protection. Confirm the entity name on your statement and read the risk disclosure before the first deposit, not after the first loss.

Treat every figure on the site as a starting point for your own arithmetic. The margin example assumes the leverage cap that applies to the entity serving Kenya, and your own position size, entry price and account currency will change the number. Recalculate with your own figures, keep the result where you can see it, and if the site's working does not match yours, challenge it using the process above. That loop, reader to desk and back, is what keeps the pages usable.