How Valdrans Works

Editorial Approach

Valdrans is a synthesis publication, not a newswire. Our job is to read across the market in real time, decide what genuinely matters, and turn it into clear, contextualised analysis a busy professional can absorb quickly.

Every report carries a thesis, the supporting evidence behind it, and the risks that would invalidate it. We try to write the way an experienced colleague would brief you in a corridor — direct, useful, and honest about what is and is not known.

Sources

We monitor a broad cross-section of major financial news organisations and official sources — including regulatory filings, central bank communications, exchange notices, and company announcements — alongside specialist publishers covering particular asset classes and sectors.

Where a claim is material, we look for confirmation across more than one independent source before it appears in a report. Where confirmation is not yet available, we say so explicitly rather than implying more certainty than the evidence supports.

Process

Valdrans uses AI-assisted research with human editorial review at every stage. Modern large language models read and structure the incoming source material, filter for relevance, and draft an initial synthesis. Human editors then verify the sourcing, sharpen the argument, and make the final call on what is published.

Nothing reaches readers without that editorial step. The role of AI is to compress hours of reading into something a human editor can review in minutes — not to publish unattended. Where a report depends on a judgement call, that judgement is a person's, not a model's.

What We Don't Do

Valdrans content is published for information only. We do not:

• Give investment, trading, tax, or legal advice
• Make price predictions or set price targets
• Issue recommendations — no "buy", "sell", "hold", or "short" calls
• Publish analysis that assumes a particular reader's position or risk tolerance

If a report ever reads as a recommendation, treat that as a drafting failure on our part and let us know.

Independence

Valdrans is funded by reader subscriptions. We carry no display advertising, accept no sponsored placements in editorial output, and have no broker, exchange, or asset-manager affiliations.

Editorial decisions — what to cover, how to frame it, when to publish — are made independently of any commercial relationship. Our incentive is to be useful enough that subscribers stay; nothing else.

The Market Pulse

The Valdrans Market Pulse is our weekly statistic: a count of corroborated market-moving stories tracked by our event pipeline, where a story is counted only when at least two distinct sources independently reported it. The counts are computed by plain database arithmetic — no AI model output enters the numbers — and published snapshots are immutable. Full definitions, quality gates, and the machine-readable series live on the Pulse methodology section.

The Insider Activity Signal

Each equity’s instrument page carries a Valdrans Insider Activity Signal — a deterministic label summarising disclosed insider dealings over the trailing 90 days. For US equities the inputs are SEC Form 4 filings; for UK equities, PDMR dealing notifications, with awards, vests, and plan-driven dealings classified as non-directional before counting.

The label is plain database arithmetic — no AI model output enters it. With fewer than 3 disclosed transactions the label is Insufficient data; with fewer than 3 directional (open-market buy/sell) transactions it is Neutral. Otherwise: buys outnumbering sells by more than 2-to-1 is Positive, the reverse is Negative. When counts are balanced, disclosed transaction values break the tie — but only when at least half the directional dealings carry a disclosed value and the imbalance exceeds 50% of gross disclosed value. Everything else is Mixed.

The signal describes disclosed filing activity in the window. It is not a prediction, a recommendation, or a view on the security, and it can change as new filings arrive.

Corrections

We correct errors as soon as we become aware of them. Material corrections are noted on the report itself so the change is visible to anyone who returns to it.

To flag an error — factual, attributional, or otherwise — please email [email protected].

Editorial Standards

• Attribution. Every material claim is traceable to a named source.
• Multi-source confirmation. Material claims are corroborated across independent sources before publication.
• Plain English. Jargon only where it carries real meaning; no padding, no throat-clearing.
• No spin. We don't dress weak evidence as strong, and we don't hide the fact when an interpretation is contested.