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Important disclosures

Independent research, models, opinions and convictions.

Not investment advice. Coteau is not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer, does not invest or manage money, and does not sell investment advice.

Nothing here is personalized; it does not consider your finances, goals or risk tolerance.

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Our models can be wrong. Holdings and ideas may be highly aggressive, speculative, out of date, or wrong at times.

Coteau is not responsible for any losses, including loss of capital, from use of this information. All investing involves risk, including loss of principal. Past and hypothetical results do not guarantee future results.

Backtested and hypothetical results are built with hindsight and do not reflect actual trading, fees, taxes or slippage.

The author may hold positions in securities discussed and may change them at any time without notice.

Data may be delayed, incomplete or inaccurate and is provided as is, without warranty. Prices on the public site are at least 15 minutes delayed.

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Sources: Yahoo Finance, SEC EDGAR and the House Clerk.

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Models and backtests

• Model portfolios are hypothetical. No money is invested in them, and their results don't reflect real trading, fees, taxes, spreads or slippage.
• Backtests apply today's rules to past prices with hindsight. Companies later acquired or delisted are missing (survivorship bias), which flatters results, most of all for smaller companies.
• The live track record starts on the date shown for each model; anything before that is a backtest.
• Rules can change. Changes are dated in each model's notes.

Planning tools and calculators

Calculator results are hypothetical illustrations based on the assumptions shown, not predictions or recommendations.

Conflicts of interest

The author may hold positions in securities discussed and may change them at any time without notice. Coteau is free, takes no payment from companies it covers, and doesn't run paid promotions.

Community posts

Posts are the views of the members who write them, not of Coteau, and aren't checked for accuracy. Paid promotion and undisclosed AI-generated posts are against the community rules.

Data sources and attribution

• Prices and company fundamentals: Yahoo Finance (unofficial access). Delayed; not for trading.
• Filings, holdings and insider/fund data: U.S. SEC EDGAR (public domain).
• Congressional trades: U.S. House Clerk financial disclosures, shown for public information.
• Economic data: U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, BLS and BEA; series obtained from FRED®, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED doesn't sponsor or endorse Coteau.
• Short interest and short-sale volume: FINRA, the owner and source of that data. Shown free of charge for non-commercial use.
• Futures positioning: CFTC Commitments of Traders (public domain).
• Earnings and dividend calendars: Nasdaq.com.
• Charts: embedded TradingView widgets, with TradingView's own attribution.
• News headlines: publishers' public RSS feeds (headline and link only; each item links to the publisher).
• Social mentions: ApeWisdom (Reddit mention counts).
• Company logos: trademarks of their owners, shown only to identify companies.

Data may be delayed, incomplete or wrong. Corrections or removal requests: desk@coteau.app.