Justin Grossbard

Co-Founder and CEO at CompareForexBrokers. Forex trader since 1998. Based in Melbourne, Australia.

I co-founded CompareForexBrokers in 2014, but my trading goes back further. Trading since 1998. Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and Master of Marketing, Monash University. Based in Melbourne, Australia.

About Justin Grossbard

I’m Justin Grossbard. I co-founded CompareForexBrokers with Noam Korbl in 2014 from a small office in Melbourne, and I’ve been the strategic head of research on the site ever since. We have documented testing on funded live accounts, opened with our own money, at 29 of the 33 brokers we rank, a record checked on 2 October 2026, with Noam running the live spread and commission captures and me leading the research.

I grew up in Melbourne and started trading forex in 1998 from a desktop in my parents’ house in the eastern suburbs. The dial-up era was a strange place to learn currency markets: spreads on EUR/USD ran 5 to 8 pips at the friendlier brokers, daily volatility on AUD/USD was triple what it is today, and chart packages were paid software you installed off a CD. None of which mattered when you were 19 and convinced you’d cracked the trend on USD/JPY.

I lost money. Then I lost more. Then I started reading properly, took a step back, and treated trading like a craft instead of a side hustle. By the early 2000s I was running consistent positive months, and by 2014, when Noam and I sat down to plan what became CompareForexBrokers, I’d been trading and reviewing brokers as a sideline writer for the better part of a decade.

Why we started CompareForexBrokers

Most broker comparison sites in 2014 were wallpaper: affiliate-driven, broker-friendly, light on actual testing. The reviews read like marketing brochures, spreads were quoted from the broker’s website, and execution was rated on a vibes basis. The bonus offers section was twice as long as the regulation section. We thought Australian traders deserved better, and if you were reading those sites, the feeling was probably mutual.

We started with a list of about 20 brokers we already knew well, opened live AUD accounts at each, and ran the same spread and execution tests against every one of them. We published the methodology, disclosed the affiliate relationships, and refused to take payment for placement. The site grew from there, and you can still see that methodology in every review.

That model still drives the site today. Every broker on this site has a current ASIC AFSL, and the research combines documented team testing with broker and regulator information. Spreads are recorded with our own logger, CFB-SpreadLogger 1.1.0, which read each broker’s bid and ask once per second on one MetaTrader terminal per broker on our London VPS servers, in our October 2026 capture covering the full trading month, 22 trading days. Earlier figures on the site, from May to June 2026, were recorded with IceFX SpreadMonitor tick medians over rolling 24-hour captures. The full breakdown sits on the methodology page.

What I do day to day

I lead the research side of CompareForexBrokers: the questions we ask, the way we compare brokers, and the rankings we publish. My co-founder Noam Korbl runs the live spread and commission captures on our funded accounts. David Levy, Head of Content, briefs every draft, and once a page is live he checks it soon after publication, fixing any error on the page and logging it in our internal change log. Each of us owns a defined part of the work, and the reviews reflect that division rather than any one person’s hand.

If you are comparing brokers for Australian trading, our ranked guides for Australian traders are a good starting point. To see the published source and test records behind what we write, read our methodology page.

Justin Grossbard qualifications

I hold a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Master of Marketing from Monash University, where my honours path was in management. You can read more about my time there in the Monash University alumni profile.

Alongside those degrees, I completed the RG146 Tier 1 Generic Knowledge certificate with Financial Education Professionals Pty Ltd on 14 June 2026. ASIC sets the RG146 training standards and the provider issues the certificate. This credential covers generic knowledge only; it is not an AFS licence or an authorisation to give personal financial advice.

Books and published research

My published articles appear across finance and business publications, and each byline is listed on my personal portfolio, which separates work I authored from pieces that quote me. The portfolio also carries the publication-specific links, so you can check any article at its source.

I am a former Forbes Business Council member, and the Council profile lists three articles I wrote in 2023. My membership is no longer active.

Media and press

• Kiplinger, author index listing my seven bylines
• Entrepreneur, author page identifying me and my authored articles
• Finance Magnates, author index of my articles

How I trade

For full disclosure: I trade my own account at three brokers covered on this site (Pepperstone, IC Markets and CMC Markets). I do not run a managed fund, I do not take signal subscriptions, and I do not run a copy-trade account that other traders follow. That means when you read my reviews, my own positions are part of the picture.

My personal style is medium-frequency swing trading on majors, with a tilt toward AUD pairs because that’s the part of the market I read best. Beyond my own trading, we hold funded live research accounts at 29 of the 33 brokers we rank, opened in a team member’s name. They sit apart from my personal accounts, so no review figure comes from my own positions.

Justin Grossbard profiles and contact details

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/justingrossbard
• X / Twitter: @grossbard01
• Email via the contact page
• Phone (Melbourne office): 0412 156 618 (AU business hours, Monday to Friday)

Have you spotted an error on a review, or do you want to push back on a rating? The contact page is the quickest path. I read every email that comes through that form personally.