Affiliate disclosure

We may earn commissions from links to IQ Option. Trading carries a risk of loss.

Sandbox Desk is a free site. Nobody pays to read it, and we do not sell subscriptions, courses or signals. It is funded by affiliate partnerships: the publisher may be paid a commission when a reader follows a partner link to a broker and later opens or funds an account there. This page explains that model in plain terms, so you can weigh what you read here knowing how the lights stay on.

Where things stand today

We are not currently enrolled in a partner programme for IQ Option, and no commission-bearing links are live on this site at the moment. Any link you follow from these pages right now earns us nothing. We publish this disclosure anyway, because affiliate income is the intended business model and we would rather state it up front than add a notice quietly the day it starts. If and when partner links go live, they will be marked as sponsored links in the page markup, and this page will describe the arrangement as it then stands.

What it costs you

Nothing. A commission, where one exists, is paid by the operator out of its own marketing budget. Following a partner link does not change your terms, your spread, your minimum deposit, your fees or anything else about the account you open. You would get the same conditions arriving at the broker directly.

How it affects what we write — and how it does not

The honest answer is that commercial funding shapes what a site chooses to cover. Sandbox Desk writes about the IQ Option demo account because that subject can plausibly support an affiliate model; a site funded this way is naturally interested in readers who go on to open accounts. We would rather you know that than assume we arrived at the topic by accident.

What it does not do is decide the contents of a page. Our commitments:

• Nothing is written to order. No partner sees a draft before publication, approves wording, or has a veto over what we say.
• Rankings and recommendations are not for sale. No position, mention, score or ordering on this site can be bought, and we take no payment for a favourable line.
• Limits get stated. Where the demo behaves unlike a real account, or where something is restricted in your country, we say so — commission or not.
• No guest posts or paid link insertions. Pitches for them are declined.

Read it as information, not advice

Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to trade or deposit. Trading digital options and CFDs carries a risk of loss, a practice balance carries none, and results on a demo do not predict results on a funded account. Platform details also change: figures on this site are dated snapshots, so confirm anything current on IQ Option's own pages before acting on it.

Questions about this disclosure go to our editor, Bronwyn Alderscott, Trading Education Editor, via the contact page.