The short version: Quant Trading Tools earns commission when readers sign up for StrategyQuant via our links and forms. The site is supported by that commission, not by reader fees or advertising. The compensation does not determine what we cover or how we cover it.
What an "affiliate" relationship means
An affiliate relationship is a commercial arrangement where one party (the publisher, in our case Quant Trading Tools) receives a commission from another party (the vendor, in our case StrategyQuant) when readers signed up via the publisher's site go on to purchase a paid product. The commission is paid by the vendor out of their own revenue. It does not increase the price for the reader — the same product costs the same whether you find it via this site or via a Google search.
Disclosure of the relationship is required by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the Endorsement Guides, by the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) under CAP and BCAP codes, and by similar bodies in many other jurisdictions. This page exists to satisfy that requirement transparently.
Specifically: who pays us, and for what
Quant Trading Tools participates in StrategyQuant's affiliate / reseller programme. When readers register a free 14-day trial of StrategyQuant via our embedded form (or via a link with the ?ref=njt URL parameter), the trial is recorded against our reseller identifier. If the reader subsequently purchases a paid StrategyQuant license, we receive a commission from StrategyQuant. We do not receive payment for the trial itself, only for paid conversions.
We are not paid by, sponsored by, or otherwise commercially involved with any other vendor referenced on this site, including TradeStation, NinjaTrader, MultiCharts, Amibroker, MetaTrader, TradingView, vectorbt, backtesting.py, or QuantConnect. References to these platforms in our editorial content are unsponsored.
How this affects what we publish
We do our best to make this affect the editorial product as little as possible:
- We will not recommend a product solely because it pays us. Our comparison articles assess platforms on functional merits — analytical depth, optimization quality, walk-forward, Monte Carlo, portfolio support, time-to-result. The ranking would not change if commission rates were inverted.
- We will not omit weaknesses of paid-affiliate products. The StrategyQuant section in our comparison guide lists genuine downsides (UI age, learning curve, license cost) alongside strengths.
- We will not pretend not to be paid. Affiliate links are marked with
rel="nofollow", our footer notes the affiliate relationship on every page, and this disclosure page exists.
That said, we are paid only when readers sign up for and ultimately purchase StrategyQuant, so we do not pretend to be neutral about whether you should consider it. We think StrategyQuant is genuinely a strong tool for the use cases described in our editorial. If we did not, we would not be promoting it.
What we don't do
- We do not display third-party advertising.
- We do not run sponsored posts disguised as editorial.
- We do not accept payment for product placements.
- We do not artificially inflate or deflate review scores in exchange for compensation.
- We do not use cookie stuffing, link cloaking to disguise affiliate identity, or any of the other dark-pattern tactics that have given affiliate marketing a deserved bad reputation.
Reader feedback
If you believe our editorial has been compromised by the affiliate relationship — if a comparison reads as biased, if a recommendation feels unwarranted — we want to know. Email admin@quanttradingtools.com. The criticism is more useful than silence, and we will update editorial accordingly.
Changes to this disclosure
If our affiliate relationships change — new programmes, exited programmes, changed terms — we'll update this page and reflect the date at the top.