How We Use AI

Plenty of sites use these tools and say nothing. We would rather tell you, because if you are going to weigh what you read here, you should know how it was made.

The short version

The reference guides and quizzes are drafted with AI assistance, under human direction, and checked before publication. Each one carries no byline and names the person who reviewed and edited it.
The Desk Notes are first-person, written by that same person rather than drafted, and signed with their name.
Every number in the market scanners is computed by our own code from public data. No AI touches it.
AI never decides what to recommend, because this site recommends nothing.
A named person reviewed and edited every page, and is accountable for it. That does not transfer to a tool.

Where the market data comes from

None of it is generated. The constituent list, the daily price bars and the Treasury yield curve come from published sources, and every indicator you see (relative strength, moving averages, 52-week ranges, candlestick patterns, correlations, breadth statistics) is calculated by code in this repository from those bars. The rules are written out on the page: the candlestick scanner states the exact arithmetic it uses to call a hammer.

When the source has a gap, the site shows the last complete session and says so. It does not fill the hole with an estimate. Each scanner carries its as-of date.

What AI is used for

Drafting and restructuring explanatory text, working from an outline and source material a person chose.
Editing for clarity and rhythm.
Writing and reviewing the code behind the site and the calculators.
Checking our own work: finding broken links, duplicate descriptions, dead ends and inconsistencies across pages.

What AI is never used for

Inventing a statistic, a study, a date, a price or a source. If a figure cannot be attributed in the sentence, we describe the behaviour and attach no number.
Producing market data, prices or indicator values.
Choosing what a reader should buy, sell or hold. We publish no picks, targets or forecasts.
Generating a credential. Our reviewers are named and hold none, by design.

Why there are no bylines

A byline is a claim that a person sat down and wrote the thing. For the reference material on What's On Wall Street that would not be true, so we do not make the claim, and inventing a writer to sign the work would be the least trustworthy thing on a page about money. What we do print under every heading is the claim that is true and checkable: the page was AI-assisted, and a named person reviewed and edited it. Who they are is a page of its own.

That decision costs us something, and the cost is the point. We cannot lean on anyone's authority to make an argument, so an explanation has to survive on whether its reasoning holds and its arithmetic checks out. That is why the working is printed on the page where you can check it.

What checking actually means

Every worked example is recomputed. Definitions are checked against primary sources. Arithmetic that appears in more than one guide has to reconcile across all of them, so a bond priced at one yield in the pillar guide carries the same figure into the duration guide. Automated checks run before anything is published: broken internal links, titles and descriptions outside their limits, duplicate metadata, unsourced statistics, and prose that has drifted into the flat uniform rhythm that machine drafting produces.

None of this makes the site error-free. It means errors are mistakes we made, and we will fix them when you tell us.

Accountability

The reviewer named under a page is responsible for it: what it claims, what it leaves out, and whether it is fair. If something here is wrong, that is on us, not on a tool. Report it through the contact page and we will correct it and note the change.

If this changes

We will update this page and the date at the top. The editorial policy covers the wider standards, and the risk disclaimer covers what this site is and is not.