Editorial and disclosure policy

Global Trading Outlook publishes two kinds of articles, and we always tell you which is which.

Our labels

Editorial. Guides, analysis and news that we choose, research and write ourselves. Nobody pays for them and nobody outside GTO approves them before publication.

Sponsored. Features paid for by the firm or person they are about. Our editors write them from the partner’s brief and interview answers. The partner checks the draft for factual accuracy and approves it before we publish. Every sponsored article carries the label at the top and a disclosure line naming who paid, and links to the partner’s website are marked as sponsored.

Republished. Works by other authors that are free of copyright, such as speeches, research notes and investor alerts published by US federal agencies, which are in the public domain. We credit the real author and the original publisher, give the original date, link to the original and to the publisher’s reuse policy, and say what we left out (usually footnotes and charts). We don’t otherwise change the text. Republication doesn’t mean the author or publisher endorses Global Trading Outlook.

Republished with permission. Pieces our contributors first published in their own newsletters (for example on Substack), which we run with their written permission. The author keeps the copyright. We say where and when the piece first appeared, link to the original and point search engines to it, and don’t change the text beyond what the notice at the top says.

Who we feature

• Brokers, trading platforms and other regulated firms confirm to us that they hold the licences their business requires. We may verify this on the regulator’s public register, and we decline and refund any firm we find on a regulator warning list.
• Our own articles never publish trading returns, win rates, profit claims or profit screenshots. A sponsored feature may state a firm’s past performance only when the statement is supported by an independently verified public record that the article links to (for example a verified third-party track record or audited accounts), the firm is named as the source of the figures, and the article carries the warning that past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. If we make an exception to this rule, the article says so under its sponsored disclosure. We never publish guarantees, and we remove any other claim we can’t verify.
• Articles about CFD and leveraged-product providers include the provider’s risk warning where the provider supplies one.

How we use AI

We use AI tools to help with research and first drafts. Guides, analysis, features and guest columns are edited and fact-checked by a person before they are published.

Short news briefs are the exception. They are written with AI tools from the official releases they cite, checked automatically so that the numbers in them, including percentages and amounts, appear in those releases, and published straight away with the releases linked. That check catches invented or mistyped figures; it can’t judge whether a figure is used in the right context. An editor reviews them after publication. A person is responsible for everything we publish, and corrections follow the policy below.

The GTO Trading Awards

Our awards are judged on criteria we publish in full. Entering is free. Winners are chosen before any commercial conversation takes place, and buying a feature, advertising or a winner’s package never affects a result.

Not investment advice

Nothing on this site is investment, financial or trading advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any asset or to use any firm. Contributors’ views are their own. Trading stocks, crypto assets, futures, options, commodities and currencies can lose you money, and leveraged products such as futures, options, CFDs and forex can lose you money rapidly.

Guest columns and contributors

We publish columns by vetted traders, analysts and industry practitioners across every market we cover. They are labelled Guest Column, carry the author’s role and any interests under the headline, and link to the author’s contributor page. Columns written for us are edited by us and approved by the author; columns republished from an author’s newsletter are run as they first appeared. Contributors may not include trade recommendations, price targets, referral or affiliate links, or return, win-rate or profit claims. We don’t pay contributors and we don’t accept free submissions. Unless our editors invited the author, a column costs $99, paid when it is booked and refunded in full if we can’t run it. A column whose author paid that fee is labelled Sponsored guest column under the headline, and the fee never changes these rules or our edits. How to book: Guest columns.

Corrections

If you find an error, email the editor. We correct factual errors promptly and note the correction at the end of the article.