How this site is funded

We may earn commissions from links to IQ Option. Trading carries risk and you can lose your money.

How this site is funded

Cashout Compass is a free site with no subscription and no paywall, and writing it costs time. The funding model behind it is affiliate marketing: a publisher sends a reader to a broker through a tracked link, and if that reader opens an account the broker pays the publisher a commission. This page states plainly that we use that model, so nobody has to guess why a review site recommends anything.

At the time of writing we are not enrolled in an IQ Option partner programme, and no tracked partner link is live anywhere on this site. Links to the broker here are ordinary links that earn us nothing. If and when a partner arrangement is in place, tracked links may appear on these pages — this disclosure covers them from the moment they do, and the rules below apply whether or not a single link is currently earning.

What it costs you

Nothing. A commission is paid by the broker out of its own marketing budget. Using a link from this site does not change the price you pay, the fees on your withdrawals, the limits on your account or the terms you are offered. You would get the same conditions arriving directly.

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

Commercial interest is real and pretending otherwise would be worse than disclosing it. So here is where the line sits:

• Rankings, recommendations and coverage are not for sale. No advertiser can buy a position, a rating, a mention or the removal of an unflattering paragraph.
• A commercial relationship does not change a fact. Limits, fees, timelines and rejection reasons are reported as the operator's own documentation states them, whether or not they flatter the broker.
• We do not soften problems. Delays, KYC friction and the reasons payouts get refused are the subject of this site — a page that hid them would be useless to the reader and worthless to us.
• What we cover is chosen by search demand and reader questions, not by which page pays best.

We are also, deliberately, not a comparison shop for whatever pays most this quarter: the site covers one broker's payout process in depth.

What we are not

We are an independent publisher, not IQ Option and not its agent, and we hold no licence or authorisation of any kind. Nothing here is financial, investment or tax advice, and no page is a promise about your payout. We cannot access accounts, release or chase a withdrawal, or influence a verification decision — for anything touching your account, contact IQ Option support.

Withdrawal terms change by country, verification tier and over time. Confirm the current figures on the operator's own pages before acting on them. Trading carries risk and you can lose your money.

Questions about this disclosure go to [email protected], where they reach Isadora Kremer, our Payments and Payouts Editor.