Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you sign up with a prop firm or a service through one of them, Still Funded may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. That commission never affects our scores, our rankings, or our verdicts. Those are based on a published methodology, and nothing else.

How the scores stay independent

Our four scores (Trust, Cost, Payout, and Rules) are calculated from firm data, verified business details, payout evidence, and rule mechanics. Affiliate relationships are never an input. Whether we earn a commission from a firm has zero effect on how it scores.

When a firm we have no affiliate relationship with scores highest, we say so. Leaving money on the table for the sake of an accurate answer is the whole reason this site is worth reading.

Where the links are

Affiliate links show up mainly on firm review pages and discount pages, where you would expect them. On plain educational content, we keep them minimal or leave them out. Every page is built to stand on its own: if you removed every affiliate link, the page would still answer your question.

How we mark them

Affiliate and referral links are tagged so search engines can see they are commercial. Links to primary sources, like business registries, regulators, and firms' own terms pages, are normal editorial links and earn us nothing. We do not hide or disguise where a link goes.

On sponsored content

By default, we do not run sponsored content, to protect our independence. If that ever changes, any sponsored placement will be clearly labeled as "Sponsored," will never sit inside our scoring or methodology sections, and will never influence a score, a ranking, or a verdict. That line does not move.

Our honesty standards

A few commitments that hold whether or not we earn a commission from a firm:

• Payout proof is labeled by how it was verified, and we never dress up secondhand reports as first-hand proof.
• Firm business details are cited to official sources wherever we can.
• When a firm changes its rules, freezes payouts, or shuts down, we document it, even if we are affiliated with that firm.
• When the data says a popular firm is a bad fit for a certain kind of trader, we say that too.
• When we cannot verify something, we tell you that instead of pretending we can.

Code freshness

Discount codes in this niche go stale fast. Our standard is that every code we publish is tested and dated, and when the discount system goes live you will be able to report a code that failed so we can verify and fix it quickly. Until then, if something looks off, email me at contact@stillfunded.com.

Questions

Anything about how this site makes money, or how the scoring stays independent, email me at contact@stillfunded.com.