Our independence pledge
Seven promises that keep our checks independent, and an honest note on how we earn money.
Our pledge
- No paid rankings. Nobody can pay to be included, left out, moved up or have a result changed in anything we publish.
- No affiliate links in reviews or results. We do not earn a commission from any firm, broker, app or product we check or write about.
- No tips, no signals, no advice. We never tell anyone what to buy, sell or hold. Our tools check claims; they do not make them.
- No advertising. The site carries no ads and no sponsored content.
- Same rules for everyone. Each check uses the same method for every site or message. The sample for any index is written down before we look at results.
- Mistakes are fixed in public. Every correction is dated and listed in our corrections log.
- Your data stays yours. We do not sell personal data. Tip checks keep counts only, never the message.
How we earn money
Trading Checkup is a small, self-funded software business in Adelaide, Australia. Money comes from people and businesses who pay for a check of their own work: a website health check, a trade review, or business use of our checking tools. A paying customer gets a report on their own site or file. Paying never changes how anyone else is checked, and never buys a place, a result or a quote in our public reports.
Conflicts of interest
If a site in a public index is also a paying customer, we say so next to its result. As of November 2026, none is.
What we are not
We are not a regulator, a law firm or a financial adviser. Our results are information to help people check things for themselves.
Trust pages: Independence pledge · How our checks work · Corrections log · Press and data