About this site
Who publishes this site
Kestrel Desk is an independent editorial project about trading method: how the tools on a retail platform work, how risk is controlled, and how a newcomer can practise before money is at stake. It is not IQ Option and is neither owned by, endorsed by nor affiliated with the broker or its group. Where a page describes what IQ Option offers, it describes a third party from the outside, using the broker's published material and the public record left by its regulators.
The site is run by the independent operator behind Kestrel Desk. No registered company, office address, VAT number or trade-body membership appears here, because none is claimed.
The editor
Every page is written, checked and signed off by Aurelio Bassani, Trading Strategy Editor, the only editorial voice here. There is no wider staff list, no rotating contributors and no guest posts, so one standard runs across the coverage and one named person is answerable for it.
How claims are sourced and dated
Research is restricted to primary sources: IQ Option's own website and blog, the public register and announcements of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, and the published decisions of the European Securities and Markets Authority. Affiliate blogs, forum threads and rival review sites are evidence for nothing here.
Platform features and regulatory permissions move. Anything that can change — a licence status, which entity serves which country, which instruments a retail client may hold — carries the date it was checked, and you are asked to confirm it inside your own account before it matters to your money. A figure that could not be confirmed against a primary source is given as a qualitative band, attributed to whoever published it, or left out.
No performance figures, anywhere
Kestrel Desk publishes no win rates, no payout percentages, no returns and no backtest results — not as fact, not as illustration, not as a hypothetical inside a worked example. Where a calculation appears it is the arithmetic of risk — how margin is worked out, where a stop-loss sits relative to a level, how a per-trade risk limit becomes a position size. The arithmetic of reward is absent by design.
Part of the reason is regulatory: a firm licensed in the EEA must display a standardised risk warning naming the share of its own retail client accounts that lose money, and may not promise a return to win a client. A publisher writing about that firm has no business supplying the promise the firm itself is barred from making.
What this site does not do
- No hands-on trading. Nobody here has deposited, opened a position or withdrawn money on the platform. Pages describe published mechanics and the rules around them, never a measured experience.
- No signals. No entries, no alerts, no bots, no copy-trading products and no paid groups, ours or anyone else's. Strategies are described and their limits explained; none is endorsed as one that works.
- No financial advice. Nothing here recommends opening a position, buying or selling an instrument, or adopting a strategy. Trading carries a risk of loss, and only you can judge whether it suits your circumstances. Tax and legal questions belong with a qualified professional.
Corrections
If something here is wrong or out of date, write to the editor and name the page and the sentence; reports pointing at a primary source are fastest to act on. Confirmed errors are fixed on the page and the checked date updated, and a correction that changes a claim's meaning is described on the page.