How This Guide Is Researched, Sourced and Updated

Regulatory facts are checked against the CMA register, not broker marketing

The Capital Markets Authority of Kenya is the regulator named throughout this guide. The public list to check is the CMA licensees register at cma.or.ke. If a firm does not appear there, this guide does not treat it as licensed, whatever its website says.

That register is the single source for licensing claims on these pages. No licence numbers, company names or approval dates are reproduced here because they change and belong on the register itself. You can open cma.or.ke on the same phone you use to fund an account and confirm a firm in a few minutes.

Where a broker is mentioned, it is only as an example of a process, never as a recommendation. Judgements about which broker suits you are yours, made with the register open beside the broker's own pages.

Money details come from the funding page and your own apps, never from us

Deposit minimums, withdrawal fees, spreads and processing times are not published in this guide. They differ by broker, by account type and by payment method, and they change without notice. The correct place to read them is the broker's funding page and your M-Pesa, Airtel Money or banking app before you send anything.

M-Pesa is the main rail for Kenyan traders, with Airtel Money, bank transfer and card also in use. The steps for each live in the app or on the broker's deposit screen, and that is where you confirm charges. If a figure is not visible there, treat it as unknown until you find it.

Tax treatment is not covered here either. Rules depend on your circumstances and are set by the relevant authority, so confirm them directly rather than relying on any guide, including this one.

Session times are kept in East Africa Time so the page matches your clock

All session hours in this guide are written in EAT, UTC+3, so you can plan around your day without converting anything. Sydney runs 01:00-10:00 EAT, Tokyo 03:00-12:00 EAT, London 11:00-20:00 EAT and New York 16:00-01:00 EAT.

The London and New York overlap falls at 16:00-20:00 EAT, which is late afternoon into evening in Kenya. That window is when two major sessions run at once, and it sits after the working day for many readers.

Daylight saving changes in London and New York shift these local times by an hour for part of the year. When that happens, the page is corrected rather than left to drift.

Updates, corrections and what we will not publish

Pages are reviewed when a fact source changes, such as the CMA register, a session schedule or a payment process. If something on a page conflicts with cma.or.ke or with your app, the source wins and the page is fixed.

This guide does not publish profit claims, return estimates or performance figures of any kind. It does not name a broker as safe, licensed or best. It does not carry invented authors, awards or testimonials.

If you spot an error, the standard is simple: point to the public source and the page is corrected. A guide about money should be boringly accurate, and that is the aim here.