Who we are

Namefold Research is an independent editorial desk that writes about the names people use for financial platforms — the aliases, the shorthand and the half-remembered brand names that end up in a search box but never on an official page. This site is dedicated to one of them: IQ Broker.

The short version of everything published here is that "IQ Broker" is a name readers use, not a company. It is a user alias for IQ Option: one platform, one official website, two names in circulation. There is no separate IQ Broker firm, no separate IQ Broker app and no second set of accounts. This site exists to say that clearly, and then to answer the practical questions people actually arrive with once they know it.

We are not IQ Option. Namefold Research is not affiliated with the platform, is not operated by it and does not speak for it. Nothing here is an official announcement, and no page on this site can reach your account, open one for you or act on one. When a question needs the platform itself — an account you cannot open, a document still under review, money that has not arrived — the right destination is the operator's own support, not us.

What this site covers

The guides stay inside the boundary the alias creates. They deal with the name and with the practical steps that follow from it:

• where the "IQ Broker" name comes from and why people search for it;
• which website and which apps are the official ones, and how to check a domain before signing in;
• signing in, and what the login screen looks like when you arrive expecting a different brand name;
• the demo and real account distinction, described in the platform's own terms;
• look-alike names and unrelated products that share the letters "IQ" — treated as search noise to disambiguate, never as competitors to rank;
• where the alias is common, described as a naming habit rather than as a market-by-market offer.

Everything outside that boundary is deliberately absent. This is not a broker review, not a comparison table and not a trading tutorial.

How the guides are researched

Each page is a documentation-led walkthrough. The starting point is the operator's own public material — the homepage, the registration and download pages, the trading room and the help centre — read carefully and turned into an evaluation framework: what the platform states about itself, what is verifiable against those pages, and what is not stated anywhere and therefore stays out.

The same discipline applies to numbers. If the operator does not publish a figure in a form we can point at, it does not appear here as a figure. That is why you will not find a minimum deposit, a payout percentage, a bonus amount, a licence number, a founding year, a user count or a support response time on this site. Where a number would genuinely help, we write the qualitative version instead. An invented figure in a naming guide is worse than no figure, because a figure is exactly what a reader acts on.

What we cannot verify

Being explicit about the limits is part of the method:

• The desk does not conduct hands-on testing. We do not fund accounts, place trades, run withdrawal tests, time support replies or benchmark execution. There is no lab behind these pages.
• We run no user surveys and publish no ratings derived from them.
• We cannot confirm the operator's internal facts — corporate structure, staffing, offices, ownership or licensing status. Those belong to the operator and to the registers that supervise it.
• We cannot tell you whether a given product is available to you. Availability depends on where an account is registered and it changes; the operator's own pages are the only current answer.
• We cannot see your account, and we will never ask for a password, a document or a payment.

Anything volatile — availability, product mix, fees, app versions, verification requirements — should be re-checked on the operator's own pages before you act on it. Treat this site as an orientation layer, not as a record of live conditions.

Dates and revisions

Names drift and interfaces move. Each page carries the date its details were last checked against the official pages, and pages are revised when the thing they describe changes. Read the date as part of the content: if the screen in front of you does not match the screen described here, trust the screen and tell us.

Who writes this

Editorial responsibility sits with Corin Ashgrove, Brand Identity and Naming Editor. One editor writes and edits this site; there is no anonymous content pool behind it. The background is in brand naming and consumer fintech copy — help-centre text, onboarding documentation and the question of which name a product is actually known by — which is deliberate: this desk is about identifying a platform correctly, not about what to do once you are inside it.

Corrections

Corrections are welcome, and we would rather hear about a mistake than leave it standing. Send the page address and the specific point you believe is wrong, with a link to the official page if you have one. Documented corrections are applied to the page itself and the check date is updated, so the fix is visible rather than silent. You can reach the desk at [email protected].

How the site is funded

No partner programme is active on this site at the moment, so there are currently no commercial links on it. That may change, and if it does the change will be disclosed rather than hidden. The full explanation is on the disclosure page. Trading carries a risk of loss, and nothing here is investment advice.