Methodology

Research views: dates, evidence score & direction

Every research page carries two distinct dates. “Last updated” is when the analyst view was generated; “Latest cited source” is the publication date of the newest source the view cites. It dates the evidence base, not a human review — a freshly generated page resting on older material shows the gap openly instead of hiding it.

The evidence score (0–1) is computed in code from the underlying material — never self-assessed by the model. It blends four measured components: coverage (30% — grounded, individually cited facts; 5 or more count in full), diversity (25% — distinct independent origins behind the cited articles; 4 or more count in full), freshness (25% — the share of cited sources published within 21 days) and depth (20% — the share we hold the full text of). A small penalty applies when a view needed compliance retries, and the result is clamped between 0.25 and 0.95. It measures the strength of the evidence base: it is not a probability that the outlook proves right, and a lower score simply means thinner, older or less diverse sourcing.

Origins, not outlets: when several outlets carry the same story — a Reuters/AP wire pickup, a rewritten company press release, coverage of the same study — we detect the originator from attribution phrases, press-release fingerprints and identical quoted passages, and count it once. A company announcing something about itself is a primary source: it is cited as such and never counts as independent coverage.

When the cited evidence disagrees with itself — opposing-direction claims on the same variable (for example “demand is rising” alongside “demand is falling”) — the page is flagged “Contested evidence” and the score is capped at 0.70, however rich the citation base. Divergent evidence must not read as strong.

Directional language is always tied to a named exposure: “bullish” / “bearish” refer to the commodity's price in the stated market and horizon — never to a company's fortunes, and never to every exposure at once (rising freight rates, for example, are revenue for vessel owners and a cost for freight buyers). News items without a clear net price channel are shown as “Notable — no clear near-term direction” rather than forced onto a side.

Beyond factual gates, every article passes a structural register check (calibrated on our published corpus, 14 Sep 2026): per 1,000 words it allows at most 1.5 contrast constructions (“not merely X — it’s Y”), 2 em-dashes and 3 abstract intensifiers (“pivotal”, “burgeoning”, “testament”…), and zero sentence-final attributions (“…, as X noted”). Drafts above threshold are sent back for rewrite, never published as-is.

Independent evaluation

Once a month we draw a deterministic sample of 50 claims published in the last 30 days — view key facts and figure-bearing blog sentences — and re-verify each against the cited source passage with a different model than the one that generated the content. The compliance suites are regression tests on documented violations; this sample is the accuracy estimate, and a human spot-check is part of the process.

Authorship & accountability

Every page, report and article on MktInvest is AI-generated and machine-gated: deterministic compliance checks and a claim-fidelity pass decide what publishes. The single byline is “MktInvest Research” — an organisation, not a person. The earlier persona bylines were retired on 14 September 2026 and every article was reassigned; that change is on the corrections log.

Accountability for what publishes sits with MktInvest as the publisher — the gates are documented on this page, and errors found after publication follow the corrections policy below. How the gates work →

Corrections policy

When a published figure, attribution or direction turns out to be wrong, we fix it surgically — headings, links and unaffected figures stay byte-identical — and the repaired text is re-scanned by the same gates that guard the pipeline. Every material fix becomes a dated public entry, never a silent edit.

Read the corrections log → Spotted an error? Write to info@mktinvest.com.

Source rights

We link to the original reporting and quote only short excerpts where needed — we never republish full articles. Crawling respects each publisher’s robots.txt and access terms; every figure is attributed to its outlet with name and date, and bot-walled sources are marked “date not available” rather than worked around.

Limitations & disclaimer