The Access Illusion: Empowerment or Entrapment?

Decades have passed since the financial sector started sharing its irresistible narrative.
“Markets are open. Investing is now for everyone.”
Financial institutions hide a contradicting reality about market access which they intend to keep unnoticed by the public.

The system encourages universal availability to its users. Every investor incurs a concealed fee as part of entering the market.
Their message to the public assures equal conditions between investors. Every investment opportunity exists in an unfavorable conflict of odds.
The industry never sought to build empowered individuals because its primary goal is to maintain control through various methods.

Internet access presents itself as real access despite being only a manufactured illusion

Consider this:
Under conditions of true access stock and CFD traders should experience different loss rates but this rarely occurs.
If user-friendly trading applications had been able to replicate the outcomes from their predecessor complex trading platforms then they would have fulfilled their goal of accessibility.

Accessible products and services are not the issue at hand. The system exists to maintain continuous user involvement rather than to achieve performance-based outcomes.

“The system profits not from your success—but from your participation. Whether you’re trading CFDs, stocks, or crypto, the mechanisms of dependency are the same.”
– Tajinder Virk, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Finvasia Group

The trader encounters difficulties when using market makers for forex trading or stock trading that allows payment-for-order-flow because of the built-in structural disadvantage in both scenarios.

• The transaction terms remain out of your reach.
• The wider market structure remains unknown to you when participating with these brokers.
• Your broker operates behind a curtain regarding their profits from your trading activities without informing you.

“Retail trading isn’t a free market—it’s a layered system of friction, incentives, and opaque decision-making designed to extract value, regardless of what you’re trading.”
– Tajinder Virk, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Finvasia Group

The issue affects more than platform functionality. The defect exists within every component of the systems utilized in retail trading.

The Industry’s Most Effective Illusion

Through their designed systems the industry produces false senses of empowerment yet preserves complete dependence on certain actions.

There are no direct market interactions which restrict you from accessing them. Middlemen shape every transaction.
Retail trading platforms conceal market fees through hidden charges which include trading spreads together with monitoring expenses and route management systems.
The platform encourages users to trade additional contracts through incentives which exist to enhance platform revenues rather than client success.
Instead of financial growth platforms use animations as well as achievements to deceive traders.

“When brokers claim they ‘empower’ traders, what they really mean is they ‘manage’ traders.”
– Tajinder Virk, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Finvasia Group

Where Does the Power Really Lie?

Look at the small print.

The platform derives financial advantage from your monetary losses.
Spread ranges remain fixed or they increase when markets experience shifts.
Your trades undergo processing which serves either platform fairness or benefits the platform.
The platform classifies you as either an actual client or serves your information to generate revenue.

“The tools have changed. The interfaces are slicker. The messaging is more inclusive. But the core business model remains the same.”
– Tajinder Virk, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Finvasia Group

So, What Must Change?

Traders should not anticipate brokers changing their profitable systems because they make significant profits from them. The profit maintaining business model exists at present and remains detectable.

The time has arrived for both acceptance and inquiry.

Ask the Hard Questions

Trading relationship evaluation is necessary right now.

• Does your brokerage make profit whenever you experience losses?
• Trader expenses should be clear at all times without altering after market movements.
• What entity executes your trades and what motivates them to work?
• The way you are treated shows if your value is genuine or if you act as revenue production.

“We built Finvasia to break this cycle—to remove unnecessary layers and create real access. But the first step isn’t just offering an alternative. It’s exposing the game itself.”
– Tajinder Virk, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Finvasia Group

A Reckoning Is Overdue

The issue involves more than just one specific product or system.
An entire structure which currently avoids examination makes up the entire industry.

The trading community requires information about this system as well as the responsible authorities need to be held accountable.

The conversation has begun.
We must increase its volume to demand necessary transformations.