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 came with a rebate."

This site contains affiliate links

MeowQuant has an affiliate relationship with OKX. In many places on this site — the homepage, inside articles, the sign-up button in the nav — there are promotional links pointing to OKX, and those links are tied to our referral code OK30001. When you use them to sign up for an OKX account and then trade on OKX, OKX may pay us a promotional fee (often called a "rebate") 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. In fact, new accounts that sign up with a referral code usually get some fee discount too — meaning it's often a saving for you, not an added expense. We get a promotional fee because OKX wants new users; that's a separate thing from your cost.

What the /go/okx.html redirect is about

You may notice that most sign-up buttons on this site don't link straight to OKX — they pass through a redirect page on this site, /go/okx.html, first, and then jump to OKX. The reasons are practical:

• One place to manage the referral code. Keeping the promotional link in a single redirect page means that when a link or referral code needs updating, we change one spot instead of editing every article — so no button gets missed or left carrying a stale parameter.
• Clean, checkable links. You can see clearly where you're going: before the click it's this site's /go/okx.html, after the click it's the OKX site. No hidden redirects, no nested layers of redirection.
• Easier to disclose. With every promotional exit funneling through one place, we can make sure they all carry rel="sponsored", in line with the labeling rules for affiliate links.

The OKX Web3 Wallet promotion

Beyond the exchange account, this site also includes a promotion for the "OKX Web3 Wallet" (a self-custody wallet). Like the exchange sign-up buttons, it passes through a redirect page on this site, /go/okx-web3.html, and the link carries a separate referral code, OKX0111. When you create and use the OKX Web3 Wallet through it, we may earn a promotional reward — and this likewise adds nothing to your cost. One thing to flag: with a self-custody wallet you hold the seed phrase yourself, and if you lose it no one can recover it for you — that has nothing to do with cost, but it matters more than saving on fees.

The rebate doesn't affect our objectivity

Some people ask: if you make money from rebates, 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 rebate. 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 rebate 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.