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Editorial policy

Editorial policy

Independence

Lessons are written to be useful on their own. Where a page links to a broker, the link is marked, and nothing in the teaching changes because of it.

What we will not publish

No signals, no profit claims, no past-performance figures presented as what a reader should expect, no urgency. Trading is presented as a skill with a real chance of losing money, because that is what it is.

Accuracy

Regulatory and tax statements name the authority and are checked against its own published material. Anything we cannot check, we leave out rather than soften.

Audience

Written for adults in South Africa who are new to trading. Nothing here is personal advice: it cannot be, because it is written without knowing anything about the reader.

How a lesson is reviewed

Each lesson is read twice before it publishes: once for whether the arithmetic recomputes, and once for whether a reader who has never opened a chart could follow it. The review date on the page is the date of the second reading, not the date the file was last touched.

Sources

Regulatory statements come from the register or the published rules of the authority named on the page — for readers in South Africa, that is FSCA. Contract sizes, pip values and margin arithmetic come from the specifications brokers publish for the instrument. Where a figure varies between brokers, the page says so instead of presenting one broker's number as the market's.

Affiliate links

Some links to brokers earn the site a commission when a reader opens an account. Those links are marked. No lesson is written, ordered or worded differently because of them, and no broker pays for a position in the course.

Comments and corrections

Corrections are made on the page itself rather than appended, and the review date moves with them. A correction that changes what a reader should do is called out in the text, not folded in quietly.