Editorial Standards

Contrarian Press publishes evidence-led financial research. These standards govern research, drafting, review, correction, and disclosure.

Evidence and provenance

• Prefer primary filings, official methodologies, issuer documents, and clearly identified market-data sources.
• Record observation dates, relevant windows, units, adjustment policy, and material methodology choices.
• Label estimates, reconstructed series, backcasts, scenarios, and model outputs as such.
• Do not present a correlation, model output, or backtest as proof of causation or as a realized live return.

Reasoning and review

• Separate reported fact from calculation, inference, and editorial opinion.
• State the strongest material counterargument and what evidence would change the conclusion.
• Check figures, captions, links, metadata, and publication destination against the reviewed record.
• Require a human publication decision. A generated draft is not an approved article.

Corrections

Material factual or calculation errors should be corrected promptly. A substantive correction should identify what changed and the date of the change; minor spelling or formatting fixes need not carry a correction note.

Independence and conflicts

Known financial interests, sponsorships, affiliate relationships, or other conflicts that could reasonably affect a reader’s interpretation should be disclosed near the relevant work. Paid placement must be labeled and must not purchase a conclusion.

Software may assist research, calculations, drafting, and checking. Human editorial approval is required before publication; automation does not make a publication decision.

Last updated: 28 August 2026. Contact: admin@betterbrainlab.org.