Affiliate disclosure
Halden Review is an independent editorial project and may earn a commission from links to IQ Option. Trading carries a risk of loss.
The short version
Halden Review is a free site paid for by affiliate marketing. Some of the links here can be commercial: if you follow one, open an account with the broker and go on to use it, the broker's partner programme may pay this site a commission. That is the whole business model, and this page exists so you never have to guess which side of it you are reading.
What it costs you: nothing
A commission is paid by the broker out of its own marketing budget. It is not added to your spread, your fees or your deposit, and the account you open through a link here has the same terms as one opened by typing the broker's address into your browser. You are never charged for reading this site, and no page asks you to pay for access to an offer.
What it does not buy
Commission does not buy a favourable write-up. No broker sees a page before it is published, no broker has approval rights over wording, and no commercial arrangement here includes editorial conditions of any kind. If the honest answer to a reader's question is that a bonus does not exist, that a promo code cannot be verified, or that a rule blocks an offer in a given region, that is what the page says, whatever it does to the click-through rate.
The separation is kept in practice, not just in principle:
- Facts come from the broker's own published pages and from regulators, and are dated, so a claim can be checked rather than trusted.
- The same editor writes the promotional pages and the critical ones, and no page is commissioned by a partner.
- Commercial links are marked in the page's markup as sponsored and open in a new tab, so a paid path is never disguised as an ordinary reference.
- Nothing is described as tested, because nothing here has been tested. Coverage is built on published terms, not on a trading account.
The current position on links
At the time of writing, this site has no partner programme configured for IQ Option and no affiliate identifier in place. In practice that means brand mentions may appear as plain text rather than as links, and no commission is being earned from this site's coverage today. If that changes, the links become live in the same marked, tracked form described above, the editorial standard stays where it is, and this page is updated to say so.
Risk, and the limits of this site
Trading carries a risk of loss, and a large share of retail accounts lose money across the industry. Nothing here is a recommendation to open an account, deposit funds or take a position; it is general information about how bonuses, promo codes and broker offers work. Whether a product suits you depends on your circumstances, and the terms that bind you are the broker's own, in the version live when you sign up.