Why this site gives no stock tips, and how to judge any tip you meet

This page explains a deliberate choice: it offers no stock tips. That is not a gap in coverage or a temporary pause. It is the design. A tip is a compressed claim — buy this, sell that, now — and compression hides almost everything a reader needs in order to judge it. What follows is a short guide to the questions worth asking of any tip, wherever it comes from.

Start with who is speaking

Before evaluating the substance of a claim, establish the source. Is this a person with a name, a traceable record and a stated role, or an anonymous account with a profile picture? Does the speaker explain how they earn a living? An honest commentator can answer that in a sentence. Evasion is itself information.

Look for conflicts of interest

Anyone who discusses a security may hold it, may be paid by someone who holds it, or may benefit from others acting on the claim. Ask what the speaker gains if you follow the tip. A disclosure does not disqualify a view — it simply lets you weigh it. The absence of any disclosure, on a page that clearly discusses specific securities, is a reason to slow down.

Check whether positions are disclosed

Position disclosure is the cheapest form of honesty available to a commentator. If someone recommends a security while holding it, saying so costs nothing and tells you the direction of their incentive. If they hold the opposite position and do not say so, the omission matters more than the argument.

Demand a time frame and a reason

A claim without a horizon cannot be tested and cannot be wrong. A claim without a reason cannot be learned from. A usable view says what should happen, over roughly what period, and why — a mechanism, not a mood. If the reasoning reduces to confidence, repetition or the speaker's own authority, there is nothing to evaluate.

Match the claim to your own situation

Even a well-reasoned view may be wrong for you. Goals, obligations and tolerance for loss differ, and a position size that suits one person can be reckless for another. Diversification, described in words rather than figures, means spreading exposure so that no single outcome determines your result. A tip that ignores this is advice about someone else's life.

Verify against official disclosures

Claims about a listed company can be checked against the disclosures the company files with the Nigerian Exchange. Primary documents are dull and slow, and that is the point: they are where the claim can actually be tested. Where the brief involves a leveraged product, the broker's own risk disclosures are the relevant document.

Treat unlicensed advice as a warning

Advice given without any licence or accountability is a warning sign rather than a shortcut. It usually means nobody is answerable for the outcome.

• Ask who benefits if you act.
• Ask what the time frame is.
• Ask what would prove the claim wrong.
• Ask whether it fits your goals and tolerance for loss.

This page is assembled from public data and states no view on any security. Judging tips is a skill, and the questions above are the whole of it.