Client money is not working capital
Client funds sit in designated accounts, reconciled daily. Operating costs are paid from company funds, never from the client pool.
Custody
Our story
A trading platform built by people who had to use one.
Candle Key started with a simple frustration: the parts of a broker that matter most — execution quality, funding speed, payout terms — were the hardest to verify before opening an account.
The industry is good at marketing and bad at disclosure. Spreads are quoted “from” a number that exists for three minutes a day; leverage is sold as opportunity rather than risk; partner payouts are described in percentages without saying percentage of what.
We built Candle Key the other way around. The condition sheets, contract specifications, funding windows and partner economics are published before you sign up. The platform shows the spread and commission on the ticket before you confirm. The portal shows the exact leverage tier applied to your equity.
The product is India-first by design. UPI and IMPS are first-class funding rails, the economic calendar is in IST, support is staffed around the Indian working day and the partner network understands sub-IB structures because that is how the market actually distributes.
We are early. The live terminal, copy trading and the mobile apps are rolling out in stages. What is already built — identity, verification, funding controls, partner attribution and the audit trail — is the foundation that makes the rest safe to ship.
Client-first
Retail accounts get negative balance protection and segregated funds, not a sales exception.
Transparent
Published pricing, contract specs and partner economics before registration.
Measured
Execution, funding and payout metrics are instrumented, not estimated for a brochure.
Secure by default
Host-only sessions, MFA, scoped roles and an immutable audit trail.