Evidence guide
Why Screenshots Aren’t a Track Record
Winning screenshots omit source context, selection rules, changed calls, losses, and benchmark comparisons needed to judge an investor’s record.
What a screenshot can prove
A screenshot can preserve a visible statement at one moment. It may help locate a source or show how a claim was presented.
By itself, it usually cannot prove that the account is authentic, the timestamp is complete, the image was not edited, or the displayed call belongs to a consistently captured record.
The missing calls create selection bias
People share exceptional winners more often than ordinary, losing, or unfinished ideas. A gallery of successful screenshots therefore measures promotion as much as investing skill.
Ask how calls entered the record. If collection begins after the outcome is known, every performance statistic is contaminated.
Context changes the meaning
A cropped image may omit the target, stop, time horizon, later revision, or reply where the author closed the position. It can also hide whether the post described a real forecast, a watchlist, or a conditional scenario.
Return to the original source and preserve the full claim. Keep later revisions connected without letting them overwrite the initial statement.
A real track record needs a ledger
A useful ledger applies one capture policy and one measurement method across calls. It includes source identity, exact evidence, publication time, direction, risk, revisions, benchmark-relative outcomes, and pending periods.
Screenshots can remain supporting evidence. They should not become the record itself.
- 1Verify the original public source.
- 2Capture all qualifying calls consistently.
- 3Preserve revisions and losses.
- 4Measure against documented rules.
Apply the method
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Review public investor results with the underlying calls and measurement basis still attached.
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