Affiliate disclosure

This page spells out one thing in plain language: what MeowQuant makes money from, and whether that affects the content you read here. We'd rather say it up front than have you click a button and only then realize "oh, this one carried a promotional fee."

This site contains affiliate links

MeowQuant has an affiliate relationship with OKX. Our referral code OK30001 appears only on the homepage and on a few sign-up, app download, fee and deposit guides, and the sign-up links that carry it sit in three places: one button in the code card at the top of the registration guide, one button next to the code on the homepage, and a button in the app download guide (in the code card at the top); other pages don't show the code. When you use that code or any of those links to sign up for an OKX account and then trade on OKX, OKX may pay us an affiliate commission under its promotion rules.

This adds nothing to your cost

This is the point most worth being clear about: OKX pays this fee — not a cent more comes out of your pocket. Whether you sign up with OK30001 or sign up directly with no referral code at all, the fees, spreads and any other costs you pay yourself don't go up. For eligible accounts the fee discount is up to 20%, and the figure OKX shows on its own page is the one that counts — so signing up with the code is not an added expense. We get a promotional fee because OKX wants new users; that's a separate thing from your cost.

How our promotional links are labeled

All three buttons point to our own miaoquant.com/go/okx address, which then forwards you to the OKX sign-up page carrying our referral code OK30001, so there is one extra step in between. Three things to be clear about for all three links:

• Checkable links. Hover over any of the three buttons and you'll see our own /go/okx address; we spell that extra step out here so it's no surprise. Once you're on the sign-up page, check that the invite code field reads OK30001, change it if it doesn't, then fill in the rest.
• One code, everywhere. The whole site uses the single referral code OK30001. We won't hand you a different code on different pages, and we won't quietly swap the parameter.
• Clearly labeled. Every promotional exit is marked with rel="sponsored" and opens in a new tab, in line with the labeling rules for affiliate links — so you can tell at a glance that "this is a promotional link."

The affiliate commission doesn't affect our objectivity

Some people ask: if you make money from affiliate commissions, can what you write still be trusted? Our answer is that precisely because we make money this way, we have to hold the line on objectivity even harder — otherwise this site loses its readers sooner or later. Specifically:

• We won't overstate OKX's upsides just because there's a commission. We write the parts of OKX that work well, and we write the parts that don't and have traps, just the same.
• We won't hide risks to push you to sign up. Wherever we ought to say "derivatives can wipe out your principal" or "quant doesn't guarantee profit," we don't cut a single word. Writing the risks in full doesn't drag down conversion — it's doing right by you.
• When we write strategies or comparisons, the bar is "is this useful to you," not "can this bring in one more sign-up." Where OKX falls short of another exchange, we say so too.

In other words, the affiliate commission decides where our revenue comes from, but it doesn't decide how we write. The content has only one yardstick: does it genuinely help someone who wants to learn quant seriously — you.

About this disclosure

This disclosure follows the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) general requirements for affiliate marketing, so that readers know the interest involved before clicking a promotional link. If you still have questions about the promotional relationship, or find something labeled less clearly than it should be, write to [email protected] and tell us. We're willing to have how we make money looked at in the open. You can also read about MeowQuant to see what we do and don't do.