Editorial policy

What gets published

One question per article, answered with arithmetic. An article ships only if it can state a formula or a procedure, show a worked example with named assumptions, and give a table of how the result moves when those assumptions change. Topics that cannot be reduced to numbers — market forecasts, which fund to buy, what a price will do next — are out of scope by design.

Sources

Rules and thresholds are cited to primary sources: the SEC, FINRA, the IRS, the Federal Reserve, exchange rulebooks, and fund prospectuses. Links point at the source document, not at a summary of it. Every outbound source link is checked for a live response before an article is published; dead links are repaired or the claim is removed.

How articles are produced

Articles are drafted with the help of a large language model and are reviewed, corrected, and published under the byline of TraderX, who is responsible for the content. Before publication each draft has to clear an automated check: minimum depth, at least one primary source with a live link, a set number of worked tables and concrete figures, a direct answer in the opening paragraph, and a similarity test against everything already published so no two articles restate each other. Drafts that fail are held back rather than trimmed to fit. Anything uncertain is written as uncertain rather than smoothed over.

Corrections

Errors are fixed in the article itself, with the change noted and dated, rather than quietly rewritten. Report one through contact and include the URL and the line.

Funding and independence

The site is funded by display advertising. There are no affiliate links, sponsored articles, or paid placements, and no broker, exchange, fund, or advertiser sees an article before it is published or has any say in what it says. Advertising is served by third parties and is separated from editorial content — see privacy and the disclaimer.