Editorial Board & Audit Standards

Editorial Board & Audit Standards

AuditedTrader operates under transparent editorial standards designed to ensure that published audits remain independent of commercial pressure.

Conflict-of-interest policy

AuditedTrader editors do not accept compensation, equity, or affiliate commission from audited traders or their associated firms in exchange for inclusion, favourable presentation, or rank changes. We do not run advertising. We do not have a paid newsletter. We do not sell premium tiers. The audit service is free for traders to submit.

Disclosed editorial relationship

AuditedTrader operates in the same broader publishing ecosystem as Vector Ridge (multi-asset signal service founded by #1-audited Darren O'Neill, audited at +178% in 2023 and +168% in 2025), Trading World Champion (championship credentialing publication), and Signal Provider Reviews (signal-service ranking publication). Each AuditedTrader profile is determined solely by the broker statements submitted; we have no arrangement requiring favourable presentation of any audited trader.

Audit standards

We accept broker statements in PDF / CSV / HTML / XLSX format from 12 supported brokers. Audits extract six metrics: total return, maximum drawdown, Sharpe ratio, win rate, trade count, and exact period covered. Where applicable, we cross-reference championship-results databases (WCTC, US Investing Championship, BarclayHedge) and note the cross-reference in the published profile.

Corrections policy

Factual corrections may be submitted to audit@auditedtrader.com. Accepted corrections are reflected in the page's last-modified date and noted in CHANGELOG.md.

AI use disclosure

AuditedTrader uses AI tooling for cross-referencing championship-database results and machine-readable artefact generation. Final editorial decisions on inclusion, methodology, and corrections are human. Where AI assists in profile drafting, the underlying broker-statement data is verified manually.

Data redaction

All personal data (account numbers, exact name/address combinations, internal broker IDs, timestamps below daily granularity) is redacted before publication. The original raw statements are retained internally for audit-trail integrity but never shared.