Investor Safety
Stock-tip fraud has a recognizable shape, and most of it can be avoided by slowing down and asking a few questions. This page gathers the safety guides, the terms worth knowing, and a plain-English look at how TickerPosts moderates, all in one place. None of it is investment advice; it is about protecting yourself before you act on anything you read.
Start With the Complete Guides
Two longer reads that cover the whole picture end to end.
- The Complete Guide to Spotting Stock Fraud and Pump SchemesA thorough walkthrough of how manipulation campaigns are built and the signs that give them away.
- The Complete Guide to Using Stock Forums SafelyHow to get value from a discussion community without falling for coordinated promotion.
Spot the Schemes
Shorter guides to the specific tactics and the warning signs.
- What Is a Pump and Dump?How coordinated hype inflates a low-priced stock before the promoters sell.
- Why Social Media Stock Tips Can Be RiskyWhat to watch for when a tip arrives through a feed or a group chat.
- How to Spot Stock SpamThe recurring shapes of promotional and bot-driven posts.
- Red Flags Before You Follow a Stock TipA short checklist for sizing up a tip before acting on it.
- Common Stock-Market Myths, Fact-CheckedPopular claims that sound convincing but do not hold up.
- How to Use Stock Forums Without Getting BurnedPractical habits for reading a discussion board critically.
Key Terms, Defined
Plain-English definitions of the words that come up most in safety discussions.
How TickerPosts Keeps Discussion Safer
Safety is built into the site, not left entirely to the reader. Pages for low-priced, small, thinly traded, and recently public stocks carry calm context notices about the risks regulators associate with those categories. When you write a post, the composer may nudge you if your wording resembles a classic promotional phrase or a big claim has no source. Obvious spam is stopped automatically, and posting limits slow down throwaway accounts. How Moderation Works explains all of this in plain English.
The rules themselves live in the community guidelines. How site-written content is produced and corrected is covered by the editorial policy and the corrections page, where our numbers come from is on data sources, and the limits of what a discussion site can promise are in the disclaimer. More common questions are answered in the FAQ.
Official Resources
For official guidance and to check whether someone is registered, see the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at investor.gov and FINRA at finra.org.