The Friday Five aims to publish accurate, understandable, and transparent financial education and market research. This policy explains how we review and correct errors.
1. What may be corrected
Corrections may address:
- Prices, returns, dates, tickers, exchanges, or company names.
- Corporate actions or benchmark calculations.
- Catalyst descriptions or source attribution.
- Charts, tables, rankings, scoreboards, and PDFs.
- Position, affiliate, sponsorship, or conflict disclosures.
- Material wording that could create a misleading impression.
- Broken links or formatting that changes meaning.
Minor spelling, grammar, style, or formatting edits that do not change meaning may be corrected without a formal note.
2. Material corrections
A material correction should include:
- What was originally published.
- The corrected information.
- The reason for the change.
- The correction date and time where relevant.
- Whether related email, PDF, chart, scoreboard, or social posts were also updated.
Recommended notice:
Correction, [DATE]: An earlier version stated [ORIGINAL]. The correct information is [CORRECTED]. The error resulted from [BRIEF REASON]. The related [TABLE / CHART / PDF] has been updated.
3. Updates versus corrections
An update adds new information that became available after publication. A correction fixes information that was wrong or misleading when published. Label them separately.
4. Reader-submitted corrections
Send suspected errors to hello@thefridayfive.org with:
- Article or issue title.
- URL.
- Description of the suspected error.
- Supporting source, calculation, or screenshot.
We will review submissions but cannot guarantee an individual response or correction when the available evidence does not support a change.
5. Preservation and audit trail
For material financial-content corrections, The Friday Five should retain an internal record of the original content, corrected content, reviewer, supporting sources, and publication timestamp.
6. No silent performance rewriting
The Friday Five will not silently remove losing model trades, replace historical entry prices with more favorable prices, or alter performance assumptions after the fact without a visible methodology or correction note.