Disclosures

Last updated: draft of July 24, 2026 — not yet in effect

This page collects the standing disclosures that apply to everything Off Script Wire publishes — the website and the newsletter. We keep them in one place so they're easy to find. The short version: we're an independent news publisher, everything here is general information, nothing here is financial advice, and our owner's trading positions are disclosed on every piece that names a company (§7).

1. General information, not financial advice

Off Script Wire is an independent, journalistic publication of general and regular circulation. Every reader receives the same content, with no tiers, no early access, and no version tailored to any one reader.

Nothing we publish is individualized investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing we publish should be read as advice directed at you or your circumstances.
We don't know your financial situation, goals, or risk tolerance, and nothing we publish is tailored to them.
Do your own research, and for decisions about your own money, consult a qualified professional who knows your situation.

2. No recommendations, no solicitation

When we write about a company, a market, an asset, or a trend, we are explaining what is happening — not telling you what to buy, sell, or hold.

Nothing on this site or in the newsletter is a recommendation that you personally buy, sell, or hold any security or other asset.
Nothing here is an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to invest in any fund or account.
Investing carries risk, including the possible loss of money, and past performance is never a promise of future results.

3. Forward-looking statements

Some of what we publish looks ahead — outlooks, projections, estimates, and words like "expects," "could," "should," or "likely." Those are forward-looking statements: our read of what might happen, based only on what's known at the time we write. The future has a habit of ignoring forecasts. Actual events and outcomes can differ, materially, from anything we anticipate, and we take on no obligation to update a prediction after the fact.

4. Market data is delayed and informational

The quotes and market figures on our markets pages come from third-party data providers and are shown on a delayed basis, for general information only.

Delayed data is not a live trading feed. It can lag further, be interrupted, or be wrong, and it may disagree between sources. Don't use it to time a trade or price an order.
A watchlist you save is a convenience that lives in your own browser — a way to follow prices, not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold anything on it. It never leaves your device; see our Privacy Policy.

5. Accuracy, sourcing, and corrections

We trace material facts to credible, identifiable sources before we run them, we attribute those sources so you can check our work, and when something is still uncertain we say so rather than dress a guess up as a finding. When we get something wrong, we fix it in the open: a material error earns a dated correction on the piece itself and a note in the next issue — the full policy lives in our editorial standards. Even with all that:

News moves fast. Information can become outdated, and any figures or details reflect our understanding at the time of publication.
Analysis and commentary are opinion, offered to inform — reasonable people can disagree, and we may be wrong.
We link to third-party sources and sites we find useful. We don't control them and aren't responsible for their content or accuracy.

6. Advertising and affiliate disclosure

Advertising keeps Off Script Wire free. When paid placements run, each one is clearly labeled and kept separate from editorial, and advertisers never influence what we cover — the rules are on our editorial standards and Advertise pages. Where we ever use affiliate links, we'll disclose it; an affiliate arrangement never changes what we choose to cover or how we cover it.

We do not accept compensation — in cash, securities, tokens, or any other form — in exchange for coverage of, or favorable mention of, any specific publicly traded or privately offered security. If we ever depart from this policy, the nature and amount of any consideration received will be disclosed in the piece itself, consistent with Securities Act §17(b).

7. Our owner’s trading positions

The person who owns Off Script Wire trades securities for his own account — in his own name, with his own money. There is no fund, no firm, no clients, and nothing managed for anyone else. He is also the person who writes and edits this publication, so the newsroom and the trading account are the same person, and we would rather you heard that here than found it elsewhere.

Every piece that names a specific company as its subject carries a position disclosure at the top of the piece, under the byline. It names both the writer and Off Script Wire's owner, states long or short, and appears even when neither holds a position — so a missing disclosure is never something you have to notice on your own. The full picture is on our ownership page, and the trading rules behind it — the blackout windows, the holding floor, and the written log — are on our disclosure policy.

Nothing we publish is intended to influence the price of any security, and no one here may write about a security in order to trade the market's reaction to it.

8. How we use AI

We may use AI tools to help with routine work — chasing down research leads, cleaning up transcripts, drafting headline options, or getting a first pass on the page. Here is the division of labour, stated exactly: the claim-by-claim checking is done by tools, run separately from whatever produced the draft, against the primary sources a piece cites. A named person commissions each piece, decides whether it runs, and is answerable for it afterwards. Nothing publishes without that person's approval.

Until August 2026 this section said that a human edits, checks the facts, and is accountable for everything we publish. The middle of that is withdrawn, and we are saying so here rather than quietly deleting it. What we are not telling you is that a person re-reads every sentence against every source. That would be a nicer sentence and it would not be true. What is true is that the checking is real, it is separated from the writing, a named person owns the decision to publish, and when we get something wrong it gets corrected in public under that person's name. Our editorial standards state the same withdrawal at length.

We don't hand the byline to a machine — no personas, no house pseudonyms, no staff we don't actually have — and nothing here is written to be anything other than honest.

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