About Kakamega Gold

Who runs this desk

Kakamega Gold is run as a small editorial desk by people who write about trading rather than people who execute it. We are not a broker, bank or licensed adviser, so we cannot open accounts, hold funds or give personal investment advice. What we do is read broker documents, work through the arithmetic of a gold position, and explain it in plain language for readers in Kenya.

No named person, address or registration number appears on this site because we would rather publish the honest limit than a placeholder. If you need a firm you can hold to account for money, you need a licensed broker and the regulator that supervises it, not this desk.

Why the page names FxPro and not another broker

The page names FxPro because the supplied facts for this site describe that broker: its platforms are MT4, MT5, cTrader and the FxPro app, and the entity that serves Kenya is the FxPro entity for this country. We do not compare it with other brokers, because no facts about other brokers were supplied, and a comparison without facts would be guesswork. Naming one broker is a scope decision, not a ranking. The absence of other names should not be read as a judgement about them.

The regulator caveat is stated exactly as given: FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA, not by the CMA of Kenya. That sentence is the reason the page is careful about local authority language. A Kenyan reader should understand that the CMA is the local authority, and that the broker's licences come from outside Kenya. We do not soften that point, and we do not imply that a local licence exists where the supplied fact says it does not.

The platform list matters because it affects what a reader can check: MT4, MT5, cTrader and the FxPro app each show margin and pip values in their own way, and the gold contract is 100 oz per standard lot with a pip of 0.01. We do not state which platform is better, because no fact supports that. We state what each is, and leave the choice to the reader, who should confirm the current terms with the broker before acting.

How to challenge a statement published on this page

If you believe a statement here is wrong, the fastest route is to identify the exact sentence and the fact you think it contradicts, then send that to the desk through the contact route on the site. A challenge that names the sentence and the source is actionable; a general complaint that the page is inaccurate is not, because it does not tell us what to check. We will compare the sentence against the supplied facts and against the regulator caveat for Kenya, and we will correct or remove it if the challenge holds.

Challenges are assessed on the same standard as the original text: a number must be traceable to a supplied fact or a worked example from those facts. If your challenge is that a figure is missing, such as a spread or a minimum deposit, the answer will be that the figure was not supplied and therefore is not stated. That is not a dodge; it is the rule that keeps the page honest. We would rather leave a gap and describe what the cost depends on than fill it with an unsourced number.

Corrections are published on the page itself, not buried in a separate notice. If a sentence is changed, the new version replaces it and the change is noted so a returning reader can see what moved. We do not delete a challenge without answering it, and we do not keep a correction quiet because the original wording was convenient. The desk keeps the right to disagree, but it will say why, in the same plain terms used on the page.

The editorial standard a number has to meet before it appears

A number appears on this site only if it is one of the facts supplied for the page, or if it is a worked example derived directly from those facts. We do not estimate, round from memory, or fill a gap with a plausible figure. That is why you will see the gold reference price of about 4275.0 and the 0.10-lot margin of about $85.50, but no spread, commission, swap or minimum deposit stated as a number. Where a reader would expect such a figure, we say what the cost consists of and what it depends on instead.

Every number is tied to the instrument it belongs to: gold (XAU/USD), one standard lot equals 100 oz, and one pip equals 0.01. Keeping those definitions attached to the figure prevents the common error of comparing a gold pip with a forex pip. The leverage figure is treated as a cap, not a target, and we do not state any ratio beyond the cap that applies to the entity serving Kenya. When a number depends on the broker entity or the platform, we name that dependency rather than inventing a value.

The standard also covers what we leave out. We do not publish statistics about success rates, client numbers or returns, because none were supplied and none can be verified from this desk. We do not attach a date to a number unless the source fact carries one. And we do not use a number to imply a recommendation: a margin example shows how the calculation works, not how much a reader should trade. If a sentence cannot meet these tests, it is rewritten or removed.

What this page will not do with a Kenyan reader's money or data

This page does not take deposits, hold funds or execute trades, so no shilling amount you send through M-Pesa ever reaches the desk. Funding goes to the broker entity that serves Kenya, on that entity's terms, and the desk has no access to the account. We do not ask for M-Pesa PINs, passwords or account numbers, and any message that does is not from us. The only money the site receives is affiliate revenue from the broker, which is separate from anything a reader deposits.

We do not collect trading data to publish performance figures, because we do not publish performance figures at all. The site does not claim a win rate, a return or a client count, and it does not use a reader's results as marketing. If you see such a claim attached to this brand, treat it as unverified. The factual content is limited to the instrument definition for gold (XAU/USD), the lot and pip conventions, the leverage cap language, and the regulator caveat for Kenya.

We do not present the leverage cap as a target or a recommendation. The cap that applies to the entity serving this country is a limit, and the $85.50 margin figure for a 0.10-lot gold position is there to show how margin is calculated, not to suggest a position size. Trading gold on leverage carries a real risk of loss, and nothing on this page removes that risk. A reader who wants to trade should confirm the current terms with the broker directly before funding an account.

How the site is funded and where that funding stops

The site is funded through affiliate revenue: when a reader opens an account with FxPro after following a link from this site, the site may receive a payment from the broker. That is the whole funding model. There are no sponsored articles, no paid placements inside the explanatory text, and no charge to readers. The affiliate relationship is disclosed wherever a link appears, and it does not change the facts we are allowed to state, because those facts are fixed in advance and do not include promotional terms.

Funding does not buy a favourable description of any cost or condition. We are not permitted to call a spread, fee or commission competitive, tight or low, and we do not, whether or not a link is present. The regulator caveat for Kenya is printed as given: FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA, not by the CMA of Kenya. That sentence would read the same on a page with no affiliate link, because it is a fact about licensing, not a marketing line. Funding pays for the desk; it does not edit the desk.

What funding does influence is which broker we can write about in this depth, since the facts supplied relate to FxPro and its platforms: MT4, MT5, cTrader and the FxPro app. It does not influence the risk framing, the leverage cap language, or the decision to leave out numbers we were not given. A reader who funds an account through M-Pesa does so on the broker's terms, not ours. We do not handle client money, do not open accounts, and do not receive any part of a trading loss.

How this desk is run and how we make calls

This desk is run by a small editorial team that writes and reviews every page; no single person has the final say on a number. Decisions about what to publish, correct or remove are made by consensus between the writer who drafted the page and a second reviewer who checks it against the source facts. That two-person rule applies to every figure on the site, including the margin example for gold and the regulator caveat for Kenya. If the two cannot agree, the page does not go live until the point is resolved.

Our decisions follow a fixed order: first, is the claim supported by a fact we can point to; second, does it describe what a cost or rule consists of rather than praising it; third, does it keep the risk framing intact for a Kenyan reader. The order matters because it stops a well-written sentence from overriding a missing source. For example, we will state that a 0.10-lot gold position needs about $85.50 margin at the applicable cap, but we will not add that the cap is generous or that the margin is low, because no number was given for either.

The desk does not publish trading signals, price forecasts or performance claims, so there is no daily call to make. What we decide is narrower: which facts are in scope, how a cost or rule is described, and when a page is out of date. A page is reviewed when a fact it relies on changes, such as the regulator caveat for Kenya or the funding method list. Between reviews, the published version stands. That keeps the site useful as a reference rather than a stream of opinions.

How affiliate revenue is kept honest

Payment never buys a rating and never hides a weakness. A broker that pays us earns no higher a place in a comparison, and a weakness we find is written down whether or not that broker is on our link list. When a check fails, the failure stays in the text.

The test we apply first is simple: can a resident of Kenya open an account, fund it through a familiar route such as M-Pesa, and withdraw again. If the answer is no, or cannot be confirmed, nothing else about that broker matters to us.

What the desk actually is

This desk is a publisher, not a financial firm, and it earns its keep from affiliate links. If you open an account with a broker through a link on this site, we may receive a payment from that broker. That payment is the only revenue here, and it is the reason the pages exist.

We do not hold client money, we do not manage positions, and we do not present ourselves as licensed by any authority. The only regulatory fact we rely on is narrow and specific: FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA — not by the CMA of Kenya.