Editorial policy.
How content here is researched, sourced, reviewed and corrected — and how our guide pages differ from automatically published news posts.
Last updated 2026-10-13
Two kinds of content
FirstPip publishes two kinds of content, and they are made in different ways. Guide pages — lessons, the glossary, calculators and tools, resources, broker research and the FAQ — follow the sourcing, review and AI rules below, including a human check before publication. News posts in the news section are drafted with AI and published automatically after software checks, with no person reviewing each post first. How news posts are made is set out in its own section below.
Sourcing
Factual claims are traced to a named source — a regulator, a central bank or industry body, a broker's own legal documentation, or a clearly identified secondary source. Numbers are published with the source and the year. Where a figure comes from a single secondary source, we say so rather than presenting it as settled.
What we will not publish
These rules apply to guide pages and news posts alike.
- Profit promises, expected returns, or income claims of any kind.
- Trading signals, or content whose value depends on you outsourcing decisions.
- Numbers we cannot source, including plausible-sounding statistics with no origin.
- Broker claims we have not verified against the regulator's own register or the broker's legal documents.
Conflicts of interest
Where a page contains an affiliate link, it is disclosed at the top of that page. Education pages aimed at beginners carry no broker links, and news posts carry no broker links or sales calls-to-action. See the affiliate disclosure.
Review and updates
Guide pages carry an updated date only when the content actually changed — not to appear fresh. Market-dependent figures (costs, regulatory limits) are re-checked on a schedule and re-dated when they change. News posts describe an event at the time it happened and are not re-dated; if one turns out to be wrong, it is corrected as described below.
How news posts are made
- Drafted with AI from named sources. Each news post is written with AI assistance from published news sources — mainly central banks' own releases, plus named news outlets. Every post lists its sources by name with a link, so you can read the original.
- Checked by software, not by a person. Before a post goes live, automated checks confirm that its figures match the cited sources and that it does not copy sentences from them. No editor reviews or approves each news post before it is published; it is published automatically once those checks pass. Each post says this at the end.
- Explanation, not trade ideas. News posts explain what was announced and why currencies can react to it in principle. They never contain buy or sell calls, price predictions or targets.
- Corrected when an error is found. If you spot a mistake in a news post, please tell us through the contact page. We correct the post and note what changed.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we correct it and note what changed. We do not silently edit a claim out of existence. Reader-reported corrections — sent through the contact page — are treated the same as ones we find ourselves.
AI use
On guide pages, drafting assistance is used, but no guide page is published without a human check of every factual claim and figure against its source. News posts are the exception: they are drafted by AI and published after the automated checks described above, without a human review of each post. Unsourced generated content is not published in either case.