The questions we hear most, answered plainly.

Primeway operates under the Companies Act 2017 and the supervision framework of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan. Our registration details and unique identification number are published in full on the Regulatory page, and you can verify them independently on the SECP's own e-services portal — we would encourage you to do exactly that rather than take our word for it.

No. Primeway never takes custody of client cash or positions. Your trading account is opened with your broker, in your name, funded by you and withdrawable by you. We advise, we introduce and we oversee execution — we cannot move your capital, and that boundary is documented in writing before any engagement starts.

Precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium), energy (WTI crude, Brent crude, natural gas), base metals (copper), selected agricultural contracts and the major FX pairs that price them. Execution is routed through international venues — COMEX, NYMEX, ICE, CBOT, NYBOT and the LME.

Write to us or call. The first consultation is free, carries no obligation, and can happen at our Lahore desk or over the phone. We will ask what you hold, what you are trying to protect and what a bad quarter would mean for you — then tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for it.

Nothing. Daily session notes and the fortnightly letter are published free for educational use, with attribution. That is deliberate: research we are willing to publish publicly is research we have to be able to defend. It is not personalised investment advice, and it should not be treated as such.

Research is our thinking, published to everyone at the same time — general, educational and free. Advisory is a written engagement with a single client, under a retainer, where the analysis is built around your book, your constraints and your tolerance for loss, and every position carries a documented thesis, exit and date.

No. Advisory is a flat retainer agreed in writing before the engagement begins. A performance fee pays an adviser to take more risk with your capital precisely when they are behind, and pays nothing back when the risk does not work. We would rather be paid the same amount whether the quarter was good or bad.

Every venue on our panel is checked on three axes: its licence verified on the regulator's own register (and which legal entity your account sits under), its spreads benchmarked live against peers, and its dealing model and ownership requested in writing. The panel is re-reviewed quarterly, and any tier-2 jurisdiction is disclosed rather than glossed over.

Yes — and you should assume you can lose all of the capital you commit. Commodities are volatile, leveraged instruments amplify both directions, and no analysis removes that. Never trade with borrowed money or with capital you need for something else. Any firm that answers this question differently is one to walk away from.

Yes, by appointment. We are on the third floor at 197 Block C, Main Boulevard, DHA Phase 8, Lahore, and we are open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 19:00. Call or write ahead so the right principal is at the desk when you arrive.

Write to us with the details. Every complaint is logged and acknowledged within one working day, and answered in writing by the compliance principal within ten working days. If you are not satisfied with the outcome, you retain the right to escalate the matter to the SECP through its official channels — we will tell you how.

It depends entirely on the instrument, the counterparty and the structure — spot-settled physical exposure, swap-free account types and leveraged derivatives are not equivalent questions. We will walk you through the mechanics of what you would actually be holding, but we do not issue certifications. That ruling properly belongs to your own Sharia board or scholar.