Who funds this site

The short version, and the part most disclosure pages skip: this site is enrolled in the Pocket Option partner programme. The referral links and sign-up buttons on these pages run through a redirector, and an account opened through one can earn us a commission from Pocket Option — never from you. If you came to this page expecting to find out what we get paid for your click, the honest answer is that the operator pays us and you never do.

Then why have this page at all

Because the business model behind sites like this one is affiliate partnerships, and you should know that before you read a word of the reviews rather than after. WhitepostDesk is built on the same commercial premise as most brand-review publishers: we earn a commission when a reader we send to a platform opens an account there. That commercial interest shapes what gets written, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest option.

What we can tell you is exactly where things stand right now. The programme is wired up. The affiliate identifier and the referral destination in this site’s configuration are set, the call-to-action blocks the template renders are switched on, and every commercial link leaves through the /go/ redirector. That is a checkable statement, not a promise: view the source of any page on this site and every outbound commercial link is marked rel="sponsored nofollow".

What that means on the page

Three things follow from it. This page says what the arrangement is. The short disclosure line in the footer says the same thing. And every paid link is marked as sponsored in the page markup, so a reader and a search engine can both see it for what it is.

We do not retro-fit commissions into old articles and leave the wording untouched. When the money changes, the disclosure changes at the same time.

What the money never buys

Not a verdict. Not a ranking position. Not the removal of an inconvenient fact. The regulatory pages on this site are the ones a partner would most want softened — the FCA’s permanent prohibition on selling, marketing and distributing binary options to retail consumers, the absence of any published FCA authorisation for this platform, the operator’s own notice naming the UK among the countries it does not serve — and those are precisely the pages that stay as they are.

There is also a limit that applies whatever the commercial position: we are not going to help anyone around a geographic restriction, because a commission would be a poor reason to talk someone into misrepresenting where they live.

Other ways money could reach a publisher

So you can check us against the full list rather than one item on it: we take no display advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid reviews, no paid placement in a comparison, and no payment to add or remove a brand. Nobody has bought a line on this site. If any of that ever changes, it belongs on this page too.

What we are not

We are not a broker, an introducer or an appointed representative. We hold no FCA authorisation, we are not on the Financial Services Register, and we do not want to be mistaken for a firm that is. We take no deposits, hold no client money and place no trades. Nothing on this site is a personal recommendation, and nothing here is regulated advice.

We also have not opened, funded or traded a live account with this platform, and no page claims we have. What we publish is an evaluation framework built from what the operator publishes and from public UK regulatory material, with the gaps marked as gaps.

Risk, stated plainly

Fixed-time and digital options are high-risk, short-horizon speculation, and most retail accounts in this product lose money. Losing the whole stake is an ordinary outcome. Read that sentence knowing we are paid for your sign-up — it is still true.

Questions about this page, or about anything you think it leaves out, go to Miriam Ashworth, Retail Markets Editor via the contact page.