Editorial Policy
How StockCalc plans, creates, and maintains educational content.
Purpose and audience
StockCalc publishes content to help self-directed learners understand investment math: valuation ratios, returns, risk measures, and related vocabulary. Our primary audience includes individual investors, students, and educators who need clear formulas and examples—not trade ideas or personalized portfolios.
We do not publish personalized buy, sell, or hold recommendations.
Topic selection
New material should support the calculator and glossary ecosystem, for example:
- How to use a specific calculator and interpret the output
- Definitions of financial metrics (PE, CAGR, Sharpe ratio, and similar)
- Worked examples with realistic but illustrative numbers
- Common mistakes and limitations tied to standard formulas
We do not treat syndicated news headlines or wire rewrites as core content. Automated market digests and low-originality news mirrors are kept out of our primary article index (see our content-quality remediation, June 2026).
AI assistance and human review
Drafts may be produced with AI tools to speed up outlines or explanations. Before publication, editors or maintainers check:
- That formulas match widely accepted definitions
- That section structure is complete (context, steps, limitations where applicable)
- That educational disclaimers and risk language are present
- That claims are not overstated (no guaranteed returns, no "real-time" promises unless true)
Calculator pages are generated from reviewed JSON specs and JavaScript logic where possible, rather than one-off hand-written HTML.
Corrections and feedback
If you spot a formula error, broken link, or misleading passage, tell us:
Material factual errors in formulas or disclaimers are prioritized for correction. We may update pages without notice when fixes are clear-cut.
Advertising and independence
StockCalc may show third-party ads. Advertising does not change our formulas or editorial standards. Sponsors do not choose calculator outputs.