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Editorial Policy

Last updated June 2, 2026

What This Page Covers

TickerPosts publishes two very different kinds of content. The first is editorial content that we produce ourselves: blog posts, glossary entries, trust pages like the one you are reading, and the short factual lines that describe each ticker. The second is community content: comments and replies written by people using the site. This page explains the standards we hold our own editorial content to, how we keep that work independent of paid promotion, and how we draw the line between editorial content and community content.

For shorter answers to general trust questions about the site as a whole, see the frequently asked questions page.

What Counts As Editorial Content

Editorial content on TickerPosts is anything written by the site itself rather than by a community member. That includes posts on the blog, entries on the glossary, the trust pages linked in the footer, the changelog entries on /changelog, and the short factual descriptions and section copy that appear on ticker pages (for example, the company name, exchange, and sector lines). Community comments, replies, watchlist contents, and reports are not editorial content.

Editorial Standards

Every editorial page on TickerPosts is written to the same standards:

  • Accuracy first. Facts about a company, a regulator, or a market mechanic are checked against the primary source (an SEC filing, a regulator page, an exchange schedule) rather than against another forum post.
  • Sources are named. Where editorial content relies on a regulator (for example, the SEC's Investor.gov, FINRA, or EDGAR), the source is linked in the article so readers can verify it.
  • Neutral, calm tone. Editorial content avoids hype language like "exploding", "guaranteed", "insane", or "risk-free". It also avoids price predictions and buy/sell calls.
  • Not investment advice. Editorial content is general education and product documentation. It is not personalised financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. The sitewide disclaimer applies to every editorial page.
  • Plain English. When a technical term is unavoidable, it is either defined inline or linked to the corresponding glossary entry.
  • No fabricated quotes or screenshots. Editorial content does not invent quotes, statistics, filings, or images.

Independence

TickerPosts editorial content is not for sale. We do not accept paid placement of tickers in blog posts, paid mentions in glossary entries, paid inclusion in any trending or most-discussed list, or paid removal of community posts. No company, fund, or promoter can pay to have a ticker featured on the homepage, on the blog, or anywhere else on the site.

The site does not currently run advertising. If advertising is introduced in the future, ads will be clearly labelled as advertising, kept visually separate from editorial and community content, and disclosed in this policy and in the changelog before they appear.

How Editorial Content Is Produced

Editorial content is researched, drafted, and edited by the small TickerPosts team with the help of large language models. Any factual claim that ends up on the site (a regulator name, a statute reference, a market mechanic, a company description) is verified against a primary source before publication. The team is responsible for anything that ships, regardless of how the first draft was produced.

Editorial content is reviewed for tone, accuracy, and product-guardrail compliance before it goes live. Routine page additions (a new glossary entry, a new blog guide, a new trust page) are logged in the changelog so visitors can see what changed and when.

Corrections

If an editorial page contains a factual error, we correct it. Small typo-level fixes are made silently. Substantive corrections (anything that changes the meaning of a sentence, a statistic, or a recommendation) are reflected in the "Last updated" date at the top of the page and noted in the changelog. We do not delete published editorial pages to hide corrections; if a page has to be retired, the URL is redirected to the closest replacement.

If you spot a factual error in editorial content, leave a comment on a related ticker page describing what you saw and which page it appeared on. The moderation team reviews comments and will route corrections to whoever maintains the affected page.

How We Write Educational Content

Our guides follow a few consistent rules so they are easy to read and easy to trust:

  • Answer first. Each guide opens with a short "In short" summary that answers the question in the title in two or three plain sentences, before any background or nuance.
  • Plain language. We aim for the reading level of a general audience, short sentences, and everyday words. Where a technical term is unavoidable we link it to its plain-English glossary entry on first use.
  • Steps as steps. When a guide explains how to do something, the procedure is written as a clear numbered or bulleted list, not buried in prose.
  • Headings that match real questions. Section headings are phrased the way a reader would actually ask the question, so the guide is easy to scan and easy to find.
  • Sources shown. When a guide relies on a primary source, such as an SEC, FINRA, or Investor.gov page, that source is listed at the bottom so you can check the original.
  • No hype. No promises of gains, no urgency, no "must-read" framing. Guides explain; they never sell.

URL Conventions

Evergreen pages (the learning hub, glossary, and how-to guides) do not put a year in their address. A guide written this year is still useful next year, so baking a year into the URL would force a redirect every January and split the page's search history across two addresses. Instead the page keeps one stable address, and the publish and last-reviewed dates shown on the page tell you how current it is.

Years appear in an address only when the date is the identity of the page, such as a recap or a snapshot tied to a specific period. In those cases the year belongs in the URL because each year is a genuinely different page. This keeps stable content stable and time-bound content clearly dated.

Community Content Is Not Editorial

Comments, replies, watchlists, and reports come from community members and are not edited by TickerPosts before they appear. They are the personal opinions of the people writing them and they are not reviewed for accuracy by the site. The rules community content has to follow live on the community guidelines page.

When a community post is removed by moderation, the removal is a policy decision (rule violation, coordinated promotion, harassment, impersonation), not an editorial one. Moderation does not rewrite posts to make them say something different; it either leaves them up, hides them, or removes them.

Data On Editorial Pages

Some editorial surfaces (ticker pages, the homepage, the trending lists) display data pulled from third-party sources. The provenance, refresh cadence, and known limits of that data are described on the data sources page. Numbers can be delayed or incomplete. Confirm anything time-sensitive against your broker or the relevant exchange before acting on it.

Changes To This Policy

If the way TickerPosts produces editorial content changes (for example, if the site introduces sponsored content, advertising, a contributor programme, or a different review process), this page will be updated and the change will be noted in the changelog. The current version of this page is the one that applies.