Trust, but Verify · The Verdict Series · Book 2
The AI Trading Verdict
Companion Resources
“93.3% accurate.” Every AI trading pitch leads with a number like that. The question that changes everything: accurate at what?
The AI Trading Verdict puts AI trading claims on trial — from financial reading and prediction through backtests, autonomous agents, and retail AI products — and gives every claim exactly the verdict its evidence earns.

Free downloads
Three free companion resources.
Companion Guide
The book’s ten practical lessons in one free guide — what AI does well, where the evidence thins, and where AI belongs in a responsible trading process.
The Four Filters Card
A printable one-page reference — the four questions to ask of any AI trading claim before you believe it.
AI Trading Claim Checklist
A printable checklist to use before paying for an AI trading product — or trusting one with money.
- The Four Filters
- Job • Information • Reality • Search — one audit for every claim.
- Six-Rung Verdict Ladder
- Established through misleading — every claim gets exactly what its evidence earns.
- Sources Audited
- Current academic and practitioner research, regulator records, and live product captures.
Read the complete research
The Companion Guide summarizes the verdict. The complete book contains the full evidence review — the studies, the boundaries, the failures, and the reasoning behind each conclusion.
Next in the Verdict Series
The Verdict Continues
Future volumes will apply the same evidence-first approach to algorithmic trading, machine-learning models, technical indicators, and stop-loss and take-profit targets. The subjects will change. The standard will not.
Evidence over assertion. Probability over certainty. Trust — but verify.
