How we work
Trust is the product. This page explains exactly how Wealth Signal is made, what we will never do, and how to hold us to it.
Editorial standards
Wealth Signal reports what happened, investigates why, shows the numbers, presents the evidence on both sides, explains what could change the story, and lets the reader decide. We do not forecast prices.
We do not optimise the publication for pageviews, and we do not publish a piece to fill a schedule.
We do not publish an article that leaves a reader with nothing they could not have got from the headline.
The six labels
Wealth Signal separates six kinds of statement and labels them visibly wherever they appear: Fact (verified information), Data (measured financial or economic information), Wealth Signal calculation (our arithmetic, with assumptions disclosed), Interpretation (what the evidence may imply), Opinion (an editorial view, identified as such) and Speculation (possible outcomes that cannot currently be established).
These are never blurred. If we cannot establish something, we label it speculation or leave it out.
Source standards
Primary sources first: SEC filings, company investor relations, the Federal Reserve, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Treasury and other government agencies.
Named secondary sources are used where a primary document does not exist, is not public, or is not timely. Every source is linked and dated at the foot of the article, and labelled primary or secondary.
We do not print a number we cannot attribute. Where a figure — such as a consensus forecast — was not available from a source we trust, the page shows an em dash and says why.
Market data
Wealth Signal does not license a real-time market data feed. Quotes shown on this site are delayed figures captured on a stated date from a named source.
We do not display flashing live prices. A financial media product should help you understand a market, not simulate a trading terminal.
Fact checking
Numbers are checked against the source document, not against another article. Where two sources disagree, we use the primary one and note the discrepancy.
Calculations are published with their inputs and assumptions so that a reader can reproduce them. If you can reproduce it, you can check it.
Corrections
We never quietly change a material factual error. Material corrections are logged on the corrections page, noted at the foot of the affected article, and the article's updated timestamp is changed.
Typographical fixes that do not change meaning are made without a notice.
To report an error, email editor@wealthsignalnyc.com with the URL and the specific figure or claim.
Use of AI
AI tools are used in producing this site: for research assistance, for drafting, for code and for production tasks. That includes help drafting articles. Every figure in a published article is taken from the linked source document and checked against it; nothing is published because a tool produced it.
We do not publish AI-generated quotes, invented sources, or thin pages built only for search engines. Pages generated from data, such as the per-ticker calculators, are kept out of search indexes and say plainly how they are computed.
Advertising, affiliates and sponsorship
Wealth Signal is building audience first. Advertising, where it exists, is clearly separated from editorial content and never appears inside an article's analysis.
Sponsored content is labelled as sponsored, in the same position, in the same style, every time. A sponsor never sees editorial content before publication and never influences a conclusion.
We do not currently run affiliate links on editorial pages. If that changes, the relationship will be disclosed on the page where it appears, not only in a policy document.
Conflicts of interest and disclosures
If the editor holds a position in a company an article discusses, the article says so.
Wealth Signal does not accept payment to cover a company, does not take equity in companies it covers, and does not publish investor relations material as editorial.
Ownership and contact
Wealth Signal is an independent financial publication, written, edited and published by one person. For editorial questions or corrections, email editor@wealthsignalnyc.com.
How we judge our own work
Before a piece is published it is checked against a short list of questions:
- Accuracy — is every number taken from its source and correct?
- Originality — does it add a calculation, comparison or explanation not available elsewhere?
- Usefulness — does the reader leave able to understand or do something?
- Clarity — could a smart person outside finance follow it, with jargon explained or linked?
- Fairness — is the evidence on the other side shown?
We do not publish mediocre work to maintain volume. A quiet week is better than a padded one.
Who writes this
Profile and published workThe Signal Field
The background of this site is market data, not decoration — the same figures the rest of the page carries, and they are delayed by about 15 minutes.
Its tilt is breadth — how many instruments are up against down. Its agitation is dispersion — how far apart the day's moves are. Its tempo is volatility. When the market closes, it stops.
Run your cursor through it and the strokes turn to face you. That part is yours, not the market's, and it changes nothing the field is telling you. The On button in the footer turns it off for good on this device if you would rather read without it.