How we check our notes

What we do before a note goes out — this page spells it out.

Honestly, when it comes to reading charts, there's a lot of wrong and half-right stuff floating around online. We got burned by it as beginners, which is exactly why we won't slap a note together and ship it. Below is the process we actually follow on every note. It isn't a slogan; this is genuinely how we work.

Topics: start where you're actually stuck

We don't pick topics by "which terms get the most searches". We pick them by "where beginners actually get stuck". A few sources feed that: the spots that tripped us up back in the day, the questions readers write in about most, and the things we see asked over and over in beginner groups.

For example, What one candle is telling you exists because we kept noticing that loads of people can't even tell the "body" from a "wick", yet they've been handed a pile of indicators. So we decided to nail the most basic layer first, instead of chasing trendy indicator names. Clearing one concrete sticking point beats covering a heap of concepts.

Checking: we click through every step ourselves

This is the part we're strictest about. Anything that touches "how to do something on the exchange" — where the order button is, the difference between limit and market, how to open a demo account, how to switch the chart's timeframe — we walk through by hand on a real trading interface, and write against what we actually see, not from memory or by copying someone else.

For the conceptual parts — how a moving average is calculated, what a golden or death cross means — we cross-check several public sources, reconcile the different accounts, then rewrite it in plain words. If we don't fully understand a claim ourselves, it doesn't go in the article dressed up as if we do. When we're unsure, we'd rather write "there are differing views on this" than hand you a confident conclusion that doesn't hold up.

How we handle information that goes out of date

This is the problem no chart-reading site can dodge: exchange interfaces get redesigned, rules change, buttons move. A screenshot that's right today might not match in six months. Here's how we deal with it:

We can't promise every detail is forever up to date — that's the honest truth. But we can promise this: you point something out, we confirm it's right, and we'll fix it — in the open.

The things we won't do

Some things matter more than getting the content right, and that's flatly not touching them:

• No calls, no signals, no price predictions. We put that in The limits of technical analysis, and we use it to keep ourselves in line.
• No courses, no paid groups, no subscription communities.
• No paid placements. We keep the lights on through exchange referrals (set out in full on the About page), but we won't talk something up in an article just because someone paid.
• No hype, no manufactured anxiety. You won't find "learn it now or you'll miss out" lines here.

If you spot anything that's wrong, off, or out of date, write to [email protected] and we'll check it carefully. To learn more about who we are, see About us.