Protecting yourself

Protecting yourself, in investing, does not mean avoiding losses: it means knowing what happens to your accounts when something goes wrong, and who regulates whom. This section is not part of the reading path, and that is deliberate: it is not read to progress, it is consulted at the moment of doubt.

It explains what becomes of your account if your broker fails — what the protection fund covers, and what it does not — then how to recognize investment fraud, by the signs that recur from one case to the next.

The two articles can be read in any order.