Affiliate disclosure

The short version

Kestrel Desk is an independent editorial project and may earn a commission if a reader opens an account with IQ Option after following a link from this site. You are told so here and in the footer of every page, so you can weigh what you read knowing how the site is paid for. Trading carries a risk of loss.

No partner programme is running yet

No affiliate account is configured for this site. No partner identifier, no tracking parameter and no commercial destination is wired into any page, so link text that would normally be clickable renders as plain text: nothing is tracked and nothing is earned. Should that change, this page changes with it — the disclosure was in place first rather than added afterwards.

What it costs you

Nothing. A commission, where one exists, is paid by the broker out of its own budget for bringing an account to it. It is not a surcharge, it does not alter the terms you are offered, and it changes neither what you deposit nor what you can withdraw. A reader typing the broker's address into a browser gets the same account on the same terms as one arriving through a link here.

What a commission does not buy

It does not buy coverage, placement or a favourable word. No partner sees a page before it goes up, none has approval over any wording, and none can commission, kill or amend an article. Where the honest thing to write is a limitation — that a licensed EEA firm is capped at 30:1 leverage on major currency pairs, that binary options are prohibited for EU retail clients, that a regulated broker is not permitted to hand you an inducement to trade — it is written plainly, because the alternative is a site nobody has a reason to trust.

The separation is kept in two ways. Judgements about what to cover, and what to say about it, are settled before any question of a commercial link arises; and every claim rests on primary sources only — the broker's own pages, the register and announcements of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, and the published decisions of the European Securities and Markets Authority.

No performance figures, whatever the incentive

This is where an affiliate site is most tempted. Kestrel Desk publishes no win rates, no payout percentages, no returns, no profitability claims and no backtest results — not in an article, not in an example, not as a hypothetical. The figures IQ Option's own global blog quotes for potential payouts appear nowhere on this site.

There is a rule behind the position as well as a preference. 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 it is barred from promising a return in order to win a client. A publisher paid by referral has every incentive to supply the promise the broker itself may not make, which is precisely why this one does not. What you get instead is the mechanics, and the free demo account on which to practise them.

Risk

Trading carries a risk of loss, and a commission arrangement does not soften it. Regulators publish industry-wide figures showing that a large majority of retail accounts lose money, and negative balance protection caps what an account can lose without making any single position safe. Nothing here is financial, tax or legal advice; for that, consult a qualified professional. Before risking money, confirm the current terms inside your own account.