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What GO Markets legally published, but does not want you to read

Every clause below is published by GO Markets itself, on its own website, today. The finding is not that the text exists. It is the distance between what a client is shown and what a client agreed to. Read from its own documents on .

Contracting entity: GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU)

deemed acceptanceentity switchhidden feerelated partyset offsole discretionaccount closureburden of proofcard depositclient money

GO Markets' international site signs you with its Mauritius company, though one of its own pages calls it an ASIC regulated broker.
Those Mauritius terms let GO Markets move client money out of trust to hedge its own risk.
They also let it void winning trades it links to pricing exploitation, and hold withdrawals while any trade is losing.
Card deposits cost up to 3% under its Disclosure Statement, against a 0% promise on the deposit page.

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Contract risk

Money at risk
7.0/10

Where this contract sitsHow far this contract goes, overall. Under 2 is nothing beyond the ordinary; 6 to 9 means several clauses put money you have already earned at risk; 9 and above reads as designed to make payout refusable.

0510
CriticalClauses that can cost you money you have already earned or deposited, or that remove your ability to challenge it.
3
FlaggedEvery clause worth knowing about, at all three severities. Ordinary terms that every broker has are not counted.
14
DocumentsHow many of the broker's own legal files this reading is based on. Each one was downloaded and hashed on the date shown.
17
ContradictionsPlaces where a promise the broker makes in public is not kept by the clause that governs it.
6

How the 14 break downThe same flagged clauses, split by how much each one can cost you. Severity is our reading of the clause, not the broker's label.

Critical3
Warning8
Notice3

The numbers in this contractFigures taken from this broker's own clauses, so the labels differ from broker to broker. The four in the panel above are the same on every report.

1 of these 3 figures comes from a clause we rate critical, which means it can take your money or your profit rather than only delay it.

Critical5 daysProfit at risk. Jump to the clause this comes from.GO Markets can void wins and enforce losses3%Fee you were not shown. Jump to the clause this comes from.Card deposits cost up to 3% despite a 0% promise10Bonus requirement. Jump to the clause this comes from.Free TradingView offer requires ten trades and a review

What the documents say

14 clauses worth knowing about, worst first, each quoted from GO Markets's own files

01

GO Markets' Mauritius terms let it take client money to hedge its own risk and to pay obligations incurred "other than on your behalf". Once it moves your money to a liquidity provider, a firm it hedges with, that money is no longer held in trust for you.

In plain words

On a principal basis, as your counterparty, means the broker takes the other side of your trade itself. Your loss is then the firm’s gain, so it has an interest in how your trade ends.

Liquidity providers are outside banks and brokers.

Why this matters

If GO Markets or its liquidity provider fails, money moved out of the client account is no longer protected as yours. GO Markets' own Disclosure Statement promises it does not use retail client funds for hedging, and also says you agree it may.

Exhibit 1CriticalRarely seen

Hedge, counteract or offset the risk GO Markets incur associated with transactions it enters with you.
Clause 7.1.5.6 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.11
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference
Set against a regulated standard: ASIC (Australia), FCA (UK)

Firms licensed by ASIC or the FCA may not use a retail client's money for their own hedging or to meet their own obligations. GO Markets' Australian disclosure lists both as uses it rules out. The Mauritius terms list both as permitted withdrawals.

GO Markets is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

Our readingClient money rules exist to stop a firm paying its own hedges and bills from client accounts. A contract that lists those payments as permitted withdrawals turns the segregated account into a source of the firm's own funding.

  • Worse together with Exhibit 3The page that calls GO Markets ASIC regulated points to the rule set that would forbid this use of your money.
  • Worse together with Exhibit 12GO Markets is also the counterparty to your trades, so the hedge it funds with your money protects its own book.
02

If GO Markets reasonably believes you exploited its pricing or technology, it can void every winning trade and enforce every losing one. You then have five days under one clause, or thirty under another, to produce conclusive evidence that you did nothing wrong.

Why this matters

A profitable month can disappear on GO Markets' own reading of "general exploitation of pricing", a phrase the terms never define. While it decides, it can withhold the funds and close every position you hold without telling you why.

Exhibit 2CriticalHarder than usual5 days

If we reasonably believe that you have manipulated our prices, our execution processes or the Trading Platform, or any general exploitation of pricing, and/or technology, (including the use of Price Latency Arbitrage), we may in our sole and absolute discretion, without notice to you:
Clause 18.5 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.24
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference
Our own capture of gomarkets.com, taken on Oct 20, 2026The claim, on English FAQ answer to: Does GO Markets prohibit any trading styles, and what is the minimum time I have to hold a trade for?Visit this page on the broker's siteDownload the full size image file
  • Worse together with Exhibit 5The new withdrawal clause lets GO Markets hold back any payout it believes came from market abuse while it weighs voiding the trades.
03

GO Markets' English rebate page lists "ASIC regulated broker" among its reasons to trade, and its Open account button leads to the Mauritius company. The English site's contracts are all with GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU), licensed by Mauritius' Financial Services Commission, not by Australia's ASIC.

Why this matters

ASIC rules would cap your losses at your deposit and stop the firm hedging with your money. The Mauritius terms do neither, and an unresolved complaint goes to a Mauritius ombudsperson instead of Australia's free AFCA scheme.

Exhibit 3Critical

GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) (“GO Markets”, “we”, “our”, “us”) is as of the 20th of February 2020 registered under Global Business Company Category and holds license number GB19024896 as an Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding Underwriting) from the Financial Services Commission, Mauritius.
Quoted in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.3
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference
  • Worse together with Exhibit 6Under ASIC rules a retail client's losses stop at the deposit; under the Mauritius terms any shortfall becomes your debt.
04

GO Markets' Disclosure Statement says card deposits incur a 3% handling fee, or 1.8% when you deposit Australian dollars. Its deposit page promises 0% fees, and its accounts page says GO Markets does not charge any fees for deposits.

Why this matters

On a $1,000 card deposit, up to $30 can go before you place a trade. The terms also let GO Markets pass on funding fees it says it covers, and add a card administration fee with no amount stated.

Exhibit 4WarningStandard wording3%

Deposits made in all other currencies incur a 3% handling fee.
Clause 19.5.2 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Disclosure Statement, p.21
Read from the broker's site on Open the reference

What it costsA US$1,000 card deposit loses US$30 to the 3% fee, so US$970 reaches the account. An A$1,000 card deposit loses A$18 at 1.8%.

Set against a regulated standard: FCA (UK)

Firms licensed by the FCA must keep their marketing fair, clear and not misleading. GO Markets advertises 0% deposit fees while its Disclosure Statement, which ranks first among its documents, charges card deposits up to 3%.

GO Markets is not licensed by this regulator, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

  • Worse together with Exhibit 7A card deposit in a currency other than your account's can carry the handling fee and an unstated conversion charge together.
05

A clause added in September 2025 lets GO Markets withhold all or part of a withdrawal while any of your open trades is losing money. It can also withhold when it thinks the money may be needed for margin, or when it believes the money came from market abuse.

Why this matters

One losing position lets GO Markets hold back a payout from an account with plenty of spare money. The margin backing your open trades is not even a debt GO Markets owes you until you have met your obligations on every account.

Exhibit 5WarningHarder than usualNew

we reserve the right to withhold any requested payment, either partially or entirely, if:
Clause 17.1 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.20
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

Deposits sold at 0% carry a 3% card fee in the contract

GO Markets' Disclosure Statement charges 1.8% to 3% on card deposits while its deposit page promises 0% fees. Its conversion fee and most mark-ups on overnight holding charges carry no stated rate, and an unpaid negative balance accrues at least 10% a year.

Cost disclosure2 clauses flagged

GO Markets' Mauritius documents never grant negative balance protection, the promise that your losses stop at the money in your account. The Disclosure Statement says you remain liable for any negative balance, and the terms charge at least 10% a year on unpaid sums, compounded monthly.

In plain words

Negative balance protection is a limit that stops you owing more than you put in. Without it, one fast market move can leave you owing the broker money on top of your deposit.

Why this matters

A weekend price gap can leave you owing GO Markets money after your deposit is gone. The interest runs on each account separately, even while your other accounts are in credit.

Exhibit 6WarningHarder than usual10%

You will remain liable for any negative balance which cannot be covered by the closing out of your Positions.
Clause 14 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Disclosure Statement, p.8
Read from the broker's site on Open the reference

What it costsLeft unpaid for a year at the 10% floor, compounded monthly, a $1,000 negative balance grows to about $1,105.

Set against a regulated standard: ASIC (Australia), FCA (UK), CySEC (Cyprus), ESMA (EU)

Firms licensed by ASIC, the FCA or CySEC, and others under ESMA rules, must stop a retail client's losses at the money in the account. GO Markets' Australian terms do this in clause 21.1. The Mauritius documents grant no such limit.

GO Markets is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

What happens, and when

The stages this clause runs through, taken from the broker's own document
TriggerWhat the broker may then doClause
Equity at 100% of marginYou are on margin call, and GO Markets can demand money at once or close your position without further notice.14
Equity at 80% of marginThe platform sends an automated warning to add funds or cut exposure.14
Equity at 50% of marginGO Markets closes your worst losing position automatically at the first available price.18.3.6
Balance below zeroYou remain liable for any negative balance the close-out did not cover.14
Debt left unpaidInterest runs daily at three per cent over LIBOR, at least 10% a year, compounded monthly.19.1.6
  • Worse together with Exhibit 10GO Markets can collect the debt and its interest from anything of yours it holds, including money in another account.

When GO Markets converts your money it picks the exchange rate in its sole discretion, and a conversion fee "may be payable". It also builds a mark-up into swaps, the charge for holding a trade overnight, and gives a figure only for cash index CFDs.

Why this matters

GO Markets converts every profit or loss in another currency into your account's currency, so an unstated charge repeats on each such trade. Its Australian terms cap conversion at 0.5% from its quoted rates; the Mauritius terms set no cap.

Exhibit 7WarningStandard wording

In dealing in the Financial Products for you or for any other purpose under these Terms & Conditions, when GO Markets needs to buy/sell foreign currency from time to time, the applicable exchange rate shall be any widely recognised and published foreign exchange rate selected by GO Markets in its sole discretion available on the date your money is exchanged and a conversion calculation fee may be payable;
Clause 10.1.10 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.13
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

What it costsAt the 0.5% ceiling in GO Markets' Australian terms, converting $10,000 would cost up to $50. The Mauritius terms set no ceiling for the same conversion.

GO Markets can rewrite the terms by email and default you for its own protection

GO Markets can amend its Mauritius terms at any time by email, and your silence counts as acceptance. It can also declare a default for its own protection, then close your account and pay itself from what it holds.

One-sided control2 clauses flagged

GO Markets can amend its Mauritius terms at any time by email, with no minimum notice, and your silence counts as acceptance. If you object, GO Markets suspends your account and closes it.

Why this matters

A new rule can bind you with no waiting period, and refusing it costs you the account. GO Markets' Australian terms give clients seven days to object; the Mauritius terms set no period at all.

Exhibit 9WarningHarder than usual

GO Markets may amend the terms of these Terms & Conditions at any time by giving written notice to you.
Clause 26.1 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.30
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

One default event in the Mauritius terms is GO Markets deciding that action is necessary for its own protection. It can then close your account at once, close your trades and pay itself from anything of yours it holds.

Why this matters

GO Markets can close the account you funded on its own judgement, with no outside event needed first. The terms also let it refuse any order without explanation.

Exhibit 10WarningHarder than usual

GO Markets considers it necessary to do so for its own protection.
Clause 20.1.8 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.27
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

GO Markets' records decide disputes unless you object in writing

GO Markets' Mauritius terms make its own notice of what you owe final evidence and treat unchallenged statements as correct. Disputes go to an internal procedure and the courts of Mauritius, with the Mauritius ombudsperson named only in the Disclosure Statement.

Burden of proof1 clause flagged

GO Markets' own notice of what you owe counts as final evidence, and any statement you do not dispute in writing counts as correct. The terms also exclude GO Markets' liability for platform losses even where it was negligent.

In plain words

A manifest error means an obvious mistake by the broker.

Why this matters

If you think a balance is wrong, the burden of proof starts with you, and the terms point only to GO Markets' internal complaints procedure. The Disclosure Statement adds the Mauritius Office of the Ombudsperson for Financial Services as the next step.

Exhibit 8WarningHarder than usual

A notice issued by an authorised officer or agent of GO Markets stating the amount of money due and payable by you shall be taken as final evidence thereof in the event of a Manifest Error;
Clause 10.1.12 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.13
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference
Set against a regulated standard: FCA (UK), ASIC (Australia)

Firms licensed by the FCA or ASIC must give retail clients free access to an independent ombudsman, the Financial Ombudsman Service or AFCA. GO Markets' Mauritius terms mention only internal handling, while its Disclosure Statement names the Mauritius ombudsperson.

GO Markets is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

GO Markets can use your deposit to hedge its own risk

GO Markets' Mauritius terms let it use client money to hedge its own risk, and money it sends to its hedging partners leaves trust. GO Markets is also the counterparty to every trade and may share your fees with introducers without telling you.

Client money2 clauses flagged

GO Markets' Mauritius terms let it share your transaction fees and charges with anyone. It need not tell you unless the law requires it.

In plain words

Remuneration means payments it receives.

Why this matters

Someone who recommends GO Markets to you may be paid from your trading costs, and its partner pages offer introducers up to US$5 a lot. Its Australian guide says that where Australian conflict rules apply, such payments need your clear consent.

Exhibit 11WarningHarder than usual

You agree that GO Markets may at any time share transaction fees and charges with any other persons without being required to disclose the sharing of such fees and charges to you, unless such disclosure is required by law.
Clause 19.7 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.26
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

GO Markets takes the other side of every trade you place, sets the prices you deal on, and may hold positions opposite yours. Its prices need not match those of the firms it hedges with, and the main one named is its own Australian sister company.

Why this matters

When you lose, GO Markets can gain, so its pricing and execution choices are not neutral. A standing order can also wait until GO Markets is satisfied it can hedge, and fill at a different price.

Exhibit 12NoticeStandard wording

GO Markets acts as principal in respect of the Financial Products traded. GO Markets act as a Market Maker and quotes you bid and ask prices. These prices may not necessarily reflect those of GO Markets’ Liquidity Providers.
Clause 10.1.5 in GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Terms and Conditions, p.13
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

The free TradingView offer asks for ten trades and a review

GO Markets' TradingView promotion pays a 3-month subscription only after a US$100 deposit, 10 trades and a public review of GO Markets on TradingView. GO Markets decides who qualifies at its sole discretion.

Promotion terms1 clause flagged

To earn the free three-month TradingView subscription, you must deposit at least US$100, place ten trades and review GO Markets on TradingView. GO Markets decides eligibility at its sole discretion and allows one account per household.

Why this matters

Reviews of GO Markets on TradingView can be a condition of this reward, so weigh them with that in mind. Ten trades also mean ten rounds of trading costs before the reward arrives.

Exhibit 13NoticeRarely seen10

Execute at least ten (10) trades (buy or sell) on your GO Markets TradingView account during the Promotion Period.
Clause 1.5 in GO Markets TradingView Promotion Terms and Conditions, p.1
Read from the broker's site on Open the reference

Our readingPromotions usually ask for a deposit and some trading. Requiring a public review of the firm, on a platform where traders compare brokers, makes part of those ratings a condition of a reward.

The company you contract with depends on the language you pick

GO Markets runs at least 5 companies behind one website, and the language or region you pick decides which one you sign with. Its Mauritius company serves the international English pages; Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese pages lead to a St Vincent and the Grenadines company.

Counterparty1 clause flagged

GO Markets' English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian and Thai pages sign you with its Mauritius company. The Traditional Chinese pages use a Seychelles company, and the Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese pages use GO Markets LLC of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Why this matters

The contract in question is the Mauritius company's. That company answers to Mauritius' Financial Services Commission and names no compensation scheme. The St Vincent company's footer and terms cover name only a company registration, with no financial regulator.

Exhibit 14Notice

GO Markets LLC is incorporated in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines under the Business Companies (Amendment and Consolidation) Act, Chapter 149 of the revised laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2009.
Quoted in GO Markets LLC Terms and Conditions, p.1
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference

Where the marketing and the contract disagree

A promise made in public, set against the clause that governs it

01

The page names Australia's regulator, while the contract its Open account button leads to is with a company licensed in Mauritius.

Said in public, in English

ASIC regulated broker

English volume rebate page, list headed More reasons to trade with us

In the contract

GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) (“GO Markets”, “we”, “our”, “us”) is as of the 20th of February 2020 registered under Global Business Company Category and holds license number GB19024896 as an Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding Underwriting) from the Financial Services Commission, Mauritius.

02

The page promises 0% fees on the same cards the Disclosure Statement charges up to 3% for.

Said in public, in English

Fund your account fast and securely with 0% fees

English deposits and withdrawals page, above the list of funding methods that includes Visa and Mastercard

In the contract · clause 19.5.2

Deposits made in all other currencies incur a 3% handling fee.

03

The footnote says GO Markets charges no deposit fees, while its Disclosure Statement charges 1.8% on Australian dollar card deposits.

Said in public, in English

*GO Markets does not charge any fees for deposits.

English accounts and pricing page, footnote to the zero fees deposit claim

In the contract · clause 19.5.1

Deposits made in AUD will incur a 1.8% handling fee.

04

Spanish speakers are promised 0% fees in Spanish, while the English Disclosure Statement charges 3% on card deposits.

Said in public, in Spanish

Financia tu cuenta de forma rápida y segura con 0% de comisiones

Word for word in English: Fund your account quickly and securely with 0% fees

Spanish deposits and withdrawals page

In the contract · clause 19.5.2

Deposits made in all other currencies incur a 3% handling fee.

05

The FAQ says no trading style is banned and defers to the terms, where clause 18.5 lets GO Markets void profits it ties to pricing exploitation.

Said in public, in English

No, GO Markets does not prohibit any trading styles, and you can open and close your positions as often as you like, as long as it is in line with our T&C’s.

English FAQ answer to: Does GO Markets prohibit any trading styles, and what is the minimum time I have to hold a trade for?

We took a picture of this page. It is shown once, with the finding it belongs to. See our capture of gomarkets.com

In the contract · clause 18.5

If we reasonably believe that you have manipulated our prices, our execution processes or the Trading Platform, or any general exploitation of pricing, and/or technology, (including the use of Price Latency Arbitrage), we may in our sole and absolute discretion, without notice to you:

06

The same Disclosure Statement denies hedging with retail client funds and asks you to agree that it may.

Said in public, in English

We do not use Retail Client funds for Hedging purposes.

GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU) Disclosure Statement, section 16, Counterparty Risk

In the contract · clause 10(g)

Clients agree that GO Markets may transfer from their Trading Account, moneys to be used for authorised hedging activities.

What changed quietly

GO Markets' documents have no earlier review, so no changes are listed.

  • ADDEDClause 17.1 · June 2024 to September 2025

    GO Markets added a list of grounds for withholding withdrawals, led by any unrealised loss on an open trade.

    If your Account shows a positive Cash balance, you have the option to request a payment of that amount. we reserve the right to withhold any requested payment, either partially or entirely, if:

  • ADDEDClause 17.3 · June 2024 to September 2025

    GO Markets can now reverse a deposit credit and cancel the trades made with it if it decides you did not act in good faith.

    Should we credit a payment to your Account but subsequently discover that the credit was made in error or if it is determined that you have not acted in good faith, we retain the right to reverse the credit and/or cancel any Trades which could not have been made or close any Open Position which could not have been established but for that credit.

  • ADDEDClause 17.5.2 · June 2024 to September 2025

    The new payments clause gives GO Markets a right to charge an administration fee on card payments, with no amount stated.

    If payment is made by debit or credit card, the debit or credit card must be accepted by us, and we reserve the right to charge an administration fee.

The documents this reading is based on

17 files, all published by GO Markets. Each shows when we read it and a fingerprint of its wording.

WIKILIX keeps the copy of each file it read, and does not republish it: what is published is the fingerprint of its wording. Download the file yourself and hash its text, lowercased with runs of whitespace collapsed, and a matching fingerprint means the wording quoted above is still the wording GO Markets publishes.

How this reading was done

Every clause above was read out of a document GO Markets publishes itself

This reading was published on .

Documents
11 of 17downloaded from the broker's site, and 11 read in full
Pages opened
91pages walked to find those documents, footer links included
Older copies
6earlier versions downloaded
Marketing pages
11public pages set against what the contract says
Languages
EN vs ESthe language it advertises in, against the language it contracts in

Who the contract is with

GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU)

Clients of GO Markets' international English site contract with GO Markets Pty Ltd (MU), company number 170969, a Global Business Company in Mauritius. The Financial Services Commission licenses it as an Investment Dealer under licence GB 19024896. It is a separate company from GO Markets Pty Ltd of Melbourne, which holds the ASIC licence and publishes its own documents. The sign-up page and all four Mauritius documents name the Mauritius company. The same website routes Traditional Chinese visitors to GO Markets International Ltd of Seychelles, licence SD043. Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese visitors get GO Markets LLC of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Quotations are copied verbatim from the documents named above, with the clause number and the page each one came from. Where a clause is quoted in another language, the original is shown first and the English is a translation.

The plain-language parts, what a clause means for a client, how ordinary it is, and how it reads against a regulated standard, are WIKILIX's analysis and are labelled as such on every card. This is a reading of public documents, not legal advice and not an allegation of wrongdoing.

In fairness, and what we could not check

A reader who knows the edges of the work can trust the middle of it

GO Markets publishes a separate, dated document set for each of its companies, and every Mauritius file carries a version label. No inactivity or dormancy fee appears anywhere in the Mauritius documents. The Disclosure Statement names an outside complaints body, Mauritius' Office of the Ombudsperson for Financial Services, with full contact details, and promises a compliance answer within 30 days. Commission rates on the fees page match the Disclosure Statement exactly, and the Execution Policy names its liquidity counterparties.

The text stored inside the Mauritius Terms and Conditions and Execution Policy files is scrambled, so every quotation from them comes from the pages as displayed. This review covers all four Mauritius documents, the Mauritius TradingView promotion terms and nine of the ten Australian documents. It does not cover the Australian privacy policy. For the Seychelles and St Vincent companies, only the opening pages of their terms are covered, and the body of the St Vincent terms is stored as images. The review compares the Mauritius terms and Disclosure Statement with archived copies from April 2025 and December 2023. It does not compare five earlier copies of Australian documents. Marketing claims were checked on the English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese pages, not on the Korean or Japanese ones.

How to check any of this yourself

Every quote above links to the GO Markets file it came from. This is what to do with it.

Open the three stepsFind the words in the source, work out the fingerprint, and read what a difference does and does not prove.

Open the source and search for the words

Every quote has a link under it. Open the file, or the web page, and search it for the words we quote. The clause number next to the quote tells you where to look.

If the words are not there any more, the source may have changed after we read it. That is worth knowing too. We keep the date we read it, and a code worked out from its wording, so the quote stays checkable.

What a fingerprint is

A fingerprint is a code worked out from what a source says. Change one word and the code changes completely. We keep two codes for every file we read, and the panel on each source shows both.

The first is the code of the exact file we downloaded. The second is the code of its wording alone, with capital letters lowered and runs of spaces collapsed. When the same words are saved as a new file, the first code changes and the second one stays the same.

Only the first code can be worked out on your own computer. Save the file, then run one of these, putting the name of the file you saved where the example is. The panel on each source prints the command with that source's real file name already in it.

macOS or Linux:
  shasum -a 256 the-file-you-saved.pdf

Windows:
  certutil -hashfile the-file-you-saved.pdf SHA256

The two codes are different from each other, and they are not meant to match. Comparing one against the other proves nothing.

What a difference means, and what it does not

A different file code on its own proves nothing. A PDF saved again with a new date inside it is a new file saying exactly the same thing.

A different wording code means the words themselves changed. That is the one that matters, and it is why we keep it.

Even then, a change is not proof of bad faith. Companies update their documents. What this report says is what the document said on the day we read it, and every quote carries that date.

A source that is a web page and not a file has no file to save, so only the code of its wording is shown.

How this report is made

Every clause quoted above comes from a document GO Markets publishes on its own website, downloaded and hashed on the date shown, with the clause number and page recorded so any reader can check it. We do not allege anything the documents do not say, and we do not judge GO Markets on anything other than its own published terms and its own public marketing. Where a clause has a qualifier that softens it, the report says so. Last read Oct 20, 2026.

If you represent GO Markets and a clause has changed, been withdrawn, or is being read out of context, tell us and we will re-read the documents and update this page. Corrections from the broker are welcome and are published with the reading they change. Contact us.

This is a reading of a contract, not legal advice and not a ruling on GO Markets. Whether its licence is real and current is a separate check on the broker profile.

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