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What Sasitharan Covers
Sasitharan is the founder and editorial lead at TradingCritique. He launched the platform in 2020 to bring honest, regulation first broker reviews to traders who were tired of seeing affiliate payouts decide which broker got the top spot.
Before TradingCritique, Sasitharan spent five years inside the retail broker industry from 2014 to 2019, working with FCA regulated, CFTC and NFA regulated, and EU regulated forex and stock brokers. He progressed from sales agent to project lead, working alongside compliance teams and seeing first hand how regulated brokers handle client funds, fund segregation, and dispute resolution. He also saw how offshore brokers operate without those protections. This direct experience inside regulated firms is the foundation behind TradingCritique’s editorial standards.
At TradingCritique, Sasitharan leads editorial direction, designs the broker scoring methodology, and provides final quality control on the reviews that matter most. He architected the TC Rating, a 50 point scoring system weighted heavily toward regulation because that is what protects a trader’s money when something goes wrong. He reviews TC Validated broker hubs, safety analyses, and pillar comparison content before publication.
Sasitharan also designed TradingCritique’s analyst training process. Every Financial Research Analyst on the team goes through one on one editorial review and a structured training programme before becoming a fully independent contributor. This is how the regulation first standard stays consistent across the team, not just on the pages Sasitharan personally reviews.
All editorial reviews are grounded in primary source verification, including FCA Register entries, regulator enforcement databases, broker disclosure documents, and direct knowledge of how regulated brokers operate internally. Sasitharan's five years of working inside FCA, CFTC, and EU regulated firms shape every editorial decision, so the regulation first standard is applied with practical accuracy and not theoretical assumptions.
Sasitharan's Editorial Methodology
Sasitharan’s editorial method is built on a verify then confirm principle. Before any TC Validated broker review is published, the regulatory claims, fund segregation details, and compensation scheme references are checked against primary sources directly. That means the FCA Register, ASIC Connect, CySEC’s database, and the broker’s own published disclosures. Regulatory licence numbers are verified individually. Compensation scheme amounts are stated in USD with the local currency in brackets, the format TradingCritique uses across all reviews.
Sasitharan does not approve broker reviews that lean on competitor review sites, user forums, or unverified third party claims as the source of factual statements. Every regulatory claim must trace back to a regulator’s own database. Every fee figure must come from the broker’s official pricing page. Every leverage figure must specify the entity and the regulator’s leverage rules. Where information cannot be confirmed from a primary source, it is excluded from the review or clearly marked as unverified.
Sasitharan also designed the internal writer training process at TradingCritique. Every Financial Research Analyst is guided through one on one review and a structured training programme before becoming a fully independent contributor. New analyst drafts go through editorial review before publication, and existing analysts work to a written editorial brief for each major page. This is how the regulation first standard stays consistent across the team’s output, not just on the pages Sasitharan personally signs off on.