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Gravity Journal

Notes on the business of introducing brokers.

How the introducing-broker business works, written for IBs: marketing and advertising, partner economics, websites that earn trust, audience measurement, and publishing in Arabic, Persian and English.

  1. 01

    Marketing & advertisingHow-to9 min read

    A social content plan for introducing brokers

    Followers come to trust an IB who teaches, shows only what they can back and says who pays them. A weekly plan built on that, in the audience's language, at a pace you can keep.

  2. 02

    Arabic, Persian & RTLExplainer7 min read

    Arabic and Persian typography for the web

    Arabic letters join, reach further above and below the line than Latin, and can read smaller at the same size. Type settings made for English break them in ways a native reader sees at once.

  3. 03

    Marketing & advertisingComparison9 min read

    Forex advertising rules: what Google, Meta and TikTok allow

    The platform decides what runs; the regulator where your audience lives decides what is lawful. An IB who pays for an advert is the advertiser, and both sets of rules land on them.

  4. 04

    Marketing & advertisingGuide10 min read

    Forex IB marketing: how introducing brokers win and keep clients

    An IB's marketing is one system, not a feed: attention, trust, a disclosed link and a reason to stay. What each channel does, what advertising may do, and where the rules draw the line.

  5. 05

    Trust & complianceExplainer8 min read

    Forex risk warnings: what the wording must say, by region

    The words are set by the broker's regulator, and the loss percentage is the broker's own figure. An IB's job is to carry that warning unchanged, in every language, where no reader can miss it.

  6. 06

    Audience & measurementHow-to8 min read

    How to judge a sub-IB's audience before you sign them

    A sub-IB brings you their audience and their habits with it. Nine checks to run before you agree terms, from the follower count to what they promise the people who follow them.

  7. 07

    Websites & presenceHow-to8 min read

    The one-page IB website, section by section

    Nine sections, each answering one question a referred trader asks before opening an account. For each: its job, what it must hold, and the claim that would undo it.

  8. 08

    Trust & complianceGuide8 min read

    Evidence before claims: what an IB's page may say, and must

    A page that sends people to a leveraged-trading broker is judged by its weakest claim. The standard that keeps an IB out of trouble, and the warnings that must be there.

  9. 09

    Audience & measurementGuide9 min read

    How to read a trading audience honestly

    Follower counts are the vanity figure. What an IB needs before choosing a partner is how engaged an audience is, where it sits, and what nobody has measured yet.

  10. 10

    Arabic, Persian & RTLGuide9 min read

    Publishing right-to-left: an Arabic and Persian website that reads natively

    Direction is one attribute. Reading natively is everything after it — the handles, tickers, numbers and type that run through an Arabic or Persian page.

  11. 11

    The IB businessComparison10 min read

    Rebate, CPA or hybrid: how IB commission plans compare

    Three ways a broker pays an introducing broker, each rewarding a different kind of audience. The deciding variable is not the rate on the page but how long your clients keep trading.

  12. 12

    Websites & presenceGuide8 min read

    Why an IB needs a website, not just a social feed

    A feed is where people find you. A website is where they decide whether to trust you — the one place your offer, your broker and your risk warning sit together.

Reading path

New to the IB business? Start here.

  1. Step 01

    What is an introducing broker (IB)? How the model works

  2. Step 02

    Rebate, CPA or hybrid: how IB commission plans compare

  3. Step 03

    Why an IB needs a website, not just a social feed

  4. Step 04

    Evidence before claims: what an IB's page may say, and must

Topics

Six subjects, covered in depth

Reference

From the glossary

All terms
Affiliate
A partner paid by a broker for sending it customers — usually once per qualified sign-up — whose relationship with the customer typically ends at the referral.
Audience concentration
How evenly a following is spread across accounts: the sum of each account's squared share of total followers, known as the Herfindahl–Hirschman index.
Bidirectional text
Text that mixes right-to-left and left-to-right runs, such as an Arabic sentence containing a Latin handle or ticker. Browsers order it with the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
Copy trading
A service that replicates another trader's trades in a follower's own account, usually automatically, so the follower's results follow someone else's decisions.
Cost per acquisition
A one-off payment a broker makes to an IB for each referred client who meets set qualifying conditions, such as a minimum first deposit and minimum lots traded.
Engagement rate
The share of an audience that interacts with a post — commonly likes plus comments on a post, divided by the account's followers.

Services

Brand, website and creative, made for introducing brokers.

Gravity turns an IB's own profile into a brand direction, a website and the creative they advertise with — in Arabic, Persian or English.