Corrections

Last updated: 31 October 2026

Every material error we find and fix is listed here, with the date it was corrected.

31 October 2026

• Big-move notes (Alphabet, Eli Lilly and Caterpillar, 29 October; Advanced Micro Devices, 30 October): the “base rate” section counted earlier one-day moves of the same size at the 50 largest US companies and how many of those stocks were higher 20 sessions later. It did not compare them with the other large stocks over the same sessions, counted several moves on the same day (such as the April 2025 sell-off) separately, and used today’s largest companies, which are survivors. Measured against the other large stocks over the same 20 sessions, stocks after moves like these did better only about half the time. The section is removed from later notes; dated notes are shown at the top of each piece.

21 October 2026

• Prop firm news rules article: it said Topstep has no restriction around major releases. Topstep's help centre now says it blocks new positions in equity index and metals minis from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after Tier 1 releases. It also said Alpha Futures funded traders must have no open positions; Alpha's page says they may hold positions but no orders may be executed within 2 minutes of a high-impact release, and that Advanced accounts have no news restriction. The article's disclosure carried our automated byline although a person wrote it. The table is now quoted from each firm's own page, read on 21 October.
• First-payout article: the table added a fixed buffer to every firm's evaluation target. Topstep and Alpha Futures instead let funded traders withdraw up to 50% of their profit or balance, so a first $1,000 payout after a $3,000 target takes $5,000 of profit in total, not the $4,000 and $6,000 we showed. The table now quotes each firm's withdrawal rule with a link; firms whose pages we could not read on 21 October were removed.
• Drawdown article: the plan table named plans no longer sold (MyFundedFutures Core and Scale, "Apex Full") and listed Tradeify Select as intraday trailing; our firm directory records Select as end-of-day. Plan names now match the directory.
• Sim-to-live article: the table gave payout ceilings for five firms without sources, including a "$40K–$100K" range for MyFundedFutures, whose page states a $100,000 sim cap and plan-specific triggers. It now covers the two firms whose pages we read, quoted directly.
• Index weights article: its Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 weights disagreed with our daily briefing, and it used an out-of-date illustrative Nasdaq-100 level of 25,000. It now uses one dated source, State Street's SPY holdings for 19 October 2026, with that day's S&P 500 close; Nasdaq-100 weights were removed because we could not get a dated issuer figure.
• FX article: it said UK-based desks handled about 38% of global FX turnover. The BIS release we cite does not give that figure; it says desks in the UK, the US, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR together accounted for 75%.
• Kraken and Breakout: the piece was dated October 2026 and read like breaking news, but both deals it covers closed in 2025. The headline and text now give the dates.
• Bylines: our articles were credited to six desk names, such as "PYE Markets Risk & Sizing", that could suggest a larger staff than we have. House articles are now credited to "PYE Markets", and automated pieces to "PYE Markets data desk (automated)". Our editorial standards now say how pieces are written, including our use of AI.
• Retired articles: "Prop Platforms Compared: Outages, Lockouts and Bracket Orders" promised a comparison it did not make and cited no sources, and "Bigger Index Points, Same $2,000 Drawdown: The Case for Micros" used illustrative index levels. Both now redirect to our articles list; the micro-contract arithmetic moved into the volatility-sizing article.
• Daily briefing, 18 October (retired): a "Morning Briefing" dated Sunday 18 October described Friday's session with figures that differed from the 19 October briefing (a 259-point versus a 263-point Nasdaq-100 move) and told readers to "anchor intraday stops and targets", which is trading advice. It is removed from our feeds and sitemaps, and its address redirects to our articles list.
• Daily briefing, 19 October: the volatility-index figure in the headline was an intraday value, not a close for the session described (Friday 16 October). Amazon's 8-K of 14 September was called an earnings report; SEC EDGAR lists it as Item 8.01 (Other Events) and Item 9.01, and it was not one. The piece also described delayed Yahoo Finance data as "live CME/Cboe volatility feeds", called itself "verified", gave an intraday 10-year yield as "currently trades at", labelled October times "EST", quoted prop-firm rules that contradicted the next day's briefing, and used approximate index weights. Briefings are frozen when first published, so these corrections are shown as dated notes at the top of the page.
• Daily briefing, 20 October: it called itself "verified", gave an intraday 10-year yield as "currently trades at 5.14%", headed realized-volatility ranges for Nvidia and Tesla "Options-Implied", called Tesla's Item 2.02 8-K an "earnings release" (the SEC's wording is "Results of Operations and Financial Condition"), built its 186-point headline on approximate index weights, and quoted an unrelated air-strike headline and a long string of firm rules. Dated notes are now shown at the top of the page.

20 October 2026

• Treasury yields article: our piece on a year of higher Treasury yields said the yield curve had been inverted a year ago. It wasn't, clearly: the 10-year/3-month spread was about zero (−0.03 percentage points on 16 October 2025, +0.02 on the 15 October figures in the same article), and the 10-year/2-year spread was positive. The article now says the spread went from about zero to +0.83 points. It also mixed figures from 15 and 16 October under one date; each figure now gives its own date. No number in the article changed.
• Earnings-season article: it called its list the "biggest scheduled reporters", but the companies weren't ranked by size. It now says "some of the largest US companies reporting, in date order".
• Ticker-page levels: the 20-day average close, the 14-day ATR and the 52-week range included the current day's unfinished bar while the market was still trading. They now use completed sessions only. For crypto, which trades every day, "last week's high/low" covered Monday to Friday; it now covers the full Monday-to-Sunday week (UTC).
• Journal calendar history: past earnings filings were listed once for every ticker a company has, so preferred shares, notes and ETNs (for example T-PA or NEE-PN) appeared as separate "results filed" entries. Only the company's main ticker is kept. Bank of England decisions on 6 November and 18 December 2025 and BEA's GDP releases on 23 December 2025 and 22 January 2026 were missing and have been added from the official pages.
• Prop-firm prices: several firm pages and comparisons showed a firm's discounted price with a promo code as the main price (for example $91.80 instead of a $153 list price). We now show each firm's published list price everywhere, recompute every cost figure from it, and no longer publish discount codes. We take no referral fees or sponsorship from prop firms.
• "Checked" dates: some firm pages labelled the date of an automated page scan as "Checked". "Checked" now means only the date a person checked the firm's own pages; scans are labelled "Page scanned".

19 October 2026 (third review)

• Prop-firm profiles: each profile carried a "Trader Community Consensus" summary (for example, calling one firm "unanimously regarded as the global gold standard"). These summaries had no cited source, so we removed them. Promotional phrases in three firms' plan notes were replaced with plain facts.
• Site footer: it said we may receive referral fees from outbound links. We do not earn anything from any firm; the notice now says so, and our rules for any future paid links are in our editorial standards.
• "Checked" dates on firm profiles: an automated scan was updating these every two hours although no one had re-checked the firm. They now show the date a person last checked the firm's own pages.

19 October 2026 (second review)

• Quotes and records: a Paul Tudor Jones quote was attributed to Market Wizards (1989); it appears in Tony Robbins’ MONEY: Master the Game (2014), and only the part we could confirm is quoted. Marty Schwartz’s contest record was reversed: Market Wizards reports 781% in the 1984 one-year contest and an average of about 210% across nine four-month contests. Unverifiable quotes and track-record figures for several traders were removed; the rest now name their source.
• Post-earnings drift: first documented by Ball & Brown (1968), later extended by Bernard & Thomas (1989, 1990), who measured standardized earnings surprises.
• CFTC Rule 4.41: our article misdescribed it. The rule covers advertising by commodity pool operators and trading advisors, including the hypothetical-performance disclaimer; it does not define or approve simulated prop accounts. The article has been rewritten from the rule text.
• Unsourced figures removed: prop-industry size claims (trader counts, revenue), several “studies show” statistics in the forex, crypto and options guides, and trading recipes presented as rules. The global FX turnover figure is updated to the BIS 2025 survey.
• Site features: we removed a status panel that showed fixed “online” statuses and outdated counts, article reactions and comments that were stored only in each reader’s own browser, a “helpful” button that added votes to the wrong place, follow and alert buttons that didn’t do anything, estimated platform latency figures, firm badges that weren’t based on a check, and photo captions that contained unchecked figures.

19 October 2026

A full accuracy review of the site found and fixed the following:

• Daily % changes: the price ticker compared prices with the close five days earlier instead of the previous session (for example Nasdaq-100 futures showed −4.55% instead of −2.50%). Changes now use the previous session's close for the same futures contract, which also fixes crude oil around contract rolls.
• Mega-cap attribution: the daily briefing showed a net contribution of 0.0 points for the largest Nasdaq-100 stocks. It now sums the individual contributions and uses the cash indices from the same session. The group is labelled "Mag 7 + AVGO" because it includes eight stocks.
• Volatility labels: several figures were labelled as Cboe VXN, GVZ or OVX but were calculated differently (VIX × 1.26, or 20-day realized volatility); three single-stock figures were fixed numbers. All now come from the named index or are labelled as realized volatility. Bitcoin volatility was understated (20.9% vs 38.7% implied, Deribit DVOL).
• Daily briefing: the QQQ row showed figures that were not calculated from data; it now uses QQQ's price and Cboe VXN. Hard-coded index weights were replaced with current ones.
• Rates: the 10-year/3-month curve now uses FRED's 3-month constant-maturity yield (it previously used the T-bill discount rate); yield changes are shown in basis points.
• Prop firms: Topstep's Trustpilot rating was shown as 4.5; it is 3.7. MyFundedFutures and Apex Trader Funding plans and prices were out of date. Other firm details were rechecked against each firm's own pages, and profiles now show what is still unconfirmed.
• Calculators and contract specs: forex defaults used outdated prices; USD/JPY and USD/CAD pip values now follow the current rate. The CME Euro FX (6E) minimum tick is $6.25 (0.00005), not $12.50.
• Attributions: Tom Baldwin is interviewed in The New Market Wizards (1992), not Market Wizards (1989). A direct quote attributed to him was not verifiable and was replaced with a paraphrase. "The Original Turtle Trading Rules" were published by Curtis Faith (c. 2003), describing Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt's 1983 program. A rule attributed to Marty Schwartz could not be sourced and the attribution was removed. The Connors RSI(2) entry rule was stated incorrectly.
• Prop firms (second pass): all 20 firms were re-checked against their own websites. Corrected prices and rules for Take Profit Trader, Tradeify, Earn2Trade, FTMO, BrightFunded, BluSky, Lucid, FundingPips, The5ers, E8, DayTraders, FXIFY and Breakout. FTMO's CFD plans and BrightFunded are priced in euros and are now shown in euros (they were shown as dollars). Topstep was founded in 2010, not 2012. Firm profiles list anything still unconfirmed.
• Check dates: some "verified" date labels fell back to a fixed date when a firm had no check date. They now read "Checked" with the real date, or a dash.
• Options article: debit spreads reduce exposure to time decay but don't "neutralize" it; an uncited "studies show" claim is now described as a practitioner rule of thumb; absolute "professional traders never…" statements were softened.
• Index weights: mega-cap index weights are approximations, not official daily weights, and are now labelled that way; one headline stated them inconsistently.
• "Verified" labels: community posts were labelled "Verified Contributor", and historical traders' results carried verification ticks, without verification. These labels were removed or changed to "Reported".