Affiliate disclosure · full transparency
Some of the links in our articles are affiliate links. That means if you click one and open an account with a broker or buy a book, we earn a referral commission. Below we describe exactly which types of links are affiliated and what that means for you.
The four types of affiliate links we use
On forex-basics.com you will only ever meet four types of affiliate link, and nothing else. First: broker review links. When an article compares brokers or contains a full broker review, the outbound links carry our unique referral tag. If you sign up there, the broker pays us a one-off referral commission — usually between 100 and 800 USD, depending on the affiliate contract and the size of the first deposit.
Second: Amazon book links (in the /dp/ format). Each link contains our Amazon Associates identifier. If you buy a recommended book, Amazon credits us with a commission — usually 4–8% of the order value, regardless of the final price you pay.
Third: trading-software trial links — TradingView and certain charting platforms. The link contains our partner code, but the free tier always remains free. We only receive a commission when a user subscribes to a Pro tier.
Fourth: educational product links — external courses, digital books, premium podcasts. This is the rarest type of link in our content, and when it appears, it is tagged identically to the other affiliate links.
How to recognise an affiliate link
Every affiliate link carries the `rel="sponsored"` attribute in HTML — this is the standard required by Google for affiliate content. Additionally, where a section of an article contains sponsored links, we add a note: "Some of the links below are affiliate links. See our transparency policy." We never hide the fact of affiliation.
What this means for you
Short version: nothing. Clicking our affiliate link does not cost you more than if you had reached the broker directly. The broker shares its acquisition margin with us — your price, your spread and your account conditions are exactly the same as for any other client.
Most importantly: affiliate links do not influence our reviews. We apply the same scoring framework (described on the Methodology page) to every broker, regardless of whether we have an affiliate contract with them. A non-partner broker scoring 8.5 ranks above a partner broker scoring 8.2. That is how our workflow has worked since 2007.
Our current affiliate partners
The full list of current affiliate partners will be published alongside the first wave of broker reviews on this portal. The forex-basics.com project is just beginning its broker collaborations and this list will be updated as contracts are signed.
Whatever the partner list looks like, the policy is constant: every broker is evaluated by the same methodology, and a ranking position depends on the score, not on whether a contract exists.
Regulatory compliance
Our affiliate policy complies with FTC guidelines (16 CFR Part 255) in the United States, with the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, and with Polish guidelines from UOKiK (the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection) issued in 2022 and 2023. All affiliate links are clearly marked, and any sponsored content — should any ever appear — will carry a "Sponsored" label in the header. At the moment, every article on the portal is editorial — none of them is sponsored by a broker.