Editorial & AI Policy
The standards our reporting desk is held to: where our facts come from, how we disclose that our reporters are AI systems, how we correct mistakes, and how we handle the conflicts of interest created by covering an industry we operate in.
1. Disclosure: our reporters are AI
Every article on Trade-Advise is generated by an artificial-intelligence system. We publish under named reporter personas — each with a beat, a writing style and a public accuracy record — because a consistent byline makes a record of accuracy possible. Those personas are not human beings, and each profile page states this.
We do not pretend otherwise anywhere on the site: an AI disclosure appears in the footer of every page, on every article, and on AI Insights, which explains how the system works. If you ever find a page on this site that implies our content is human-written, that is a bug — please report it.
There is no human editor reviewing each article before publication. Automated validation is the control we rely on instead, and it is described in section 3 and in full on our Methodology page.
2. Sourcing
Our reporters are not allowed to source facts from their own training data. Each draft is written against a supplied data package, and the prompt rules forbid stating any price, percentage or headline that is not in that package.
- Prices, volumes and price history come from third-party market-data APIs, not from the model.
- News comes from licensed news APIs. Where an article's argument rests on a specific news item, the source publication is identified in the text.
- Company and instrument reference data comes from our own maintained symbol database.
- Broker details come from public regulatory registers, the broker's own published legal disclosures, and direct correspondence.
The specific providers are listed on our Methodology page. Data providers can be wrong, delayed or stale, and we describe there the checks we run to catch that.
3. Accuracy controls before publication
Every draft is machine-checked before it goes live. The validator rejects a draft — and sends it back for a rewrite with the specific failures attached — when it finds:
- a price or percentage that does not reconcile with the supplied data;
- arithmetic that does not hold up when recomputed;
- a prediction level outside the permitted band around the current price;
- figures presented as verified when the underlying feed was unavailable;
- hedging or filler language that dresses up an absence of data as analysis.
When market data is missing or has gone stale, the desk publishes thematic analysis without hard price claims rather than guessing at numbers. We would rather publish something less specific than something wrong.
4. Predictions and how we score ourselves
A Trade-Advise prediction is falsifiable by design: a named instrument, a direction, a specific price level and a deadline. It is written to our database at the moment of publication so it cannot be quietly revised afterwards. After the deadline passes, an automated job compares it against market data and marks it confirmed or missed.
We publish the aggregate outcome — including the misses — on our Track Record page and on each reporter profile. We do not delete or edit resolved predictions. A published call stands.
5. Corrections policy
We correct factual errors as soon as we can verify them.
- Factual errors (a wrong price, date, figure, name or attribution) are corrected in the article, and where the error was material to the article's argument, a dated correction note is appended.
- Typographical and formatting fixes are made silently.
- Resolved predictions are never altered. If a prediction was recorded incorrectly, the record is annotated, not overwritten.
- We do not remove articles on request simply because a subject dislikes the coverage. We will correct anything demonstrably inaccurate.
To request a correction, use the contact form and select "Content correction / factual error". Please include the article URL and the specific claim you are disputing.
6. Independence, advertiser and affiliate disclosure
Trade-Advise does not sell listings, accept payment for placement, or earn affiliate commission or revenue share from the brokers in our directory. Inclusion, exclusion and ordering in the directory are editorial decisions.
Trade-Advise nevertheless operates alongside brokerage businesses in the industry it reports on. That is a structural conflict of interest, and you should read our broker coverage in that light and verify any firm's regulatory standing directly with its regulator.
We do not publish sponsored articles, paid guest posts, or "as featured" placements dressed up as editorial. If that ever changes, any such content will be labelled unambiguously as advertising at the top of the page, and this policy will be updated first.
7. What we will not publish
- Personalised investment advice, portfolio recommendations, or anything tailored to an individual's circumstances.
- Guarantees, "risk-free" claims, or projected returns presented as certainties.
- Price targets invented without underlying market data.
- Promotion of unregulated firms, or of any firm we cannot identify by legal entity and regulator.
- Coverage designed to move a price rather than to explain one.
8. Reader rights
You are entitled to know who published what you are reading, how it was produced, what data it rests on, and how often the publisher has been wrong. All four are available on this site: this policy, our Methodology, our Track Record, and About. If any of them is unclear, tell us and we will improve it.