Personal trading policy
A call exists for two hours before anyone outside Tickbird can read it. This page says who can see it during those two hours, and what they are forbidden from doing with it.
Why this page exists
Every morning at 6:30 New York time, a stock is chosen and sealed. It reaches paying subscribers at 7:30, the free list at 8:00, and this site at 8:30. For those two hours a very small number of people know a name that the public does not.
That is an ordinary feature of any publication with a schedule. It is also the exact position from which someone could buy first and let the readers push the price. A track record built that way would be worthless, and worse, it would be indistinguishable from an honest one unless the rule is written down in advance. So here it is, in advance.
The rule
Nobody who has access to a call before it is public may trade the securities it names. The prohibition covers the published pick, the runner-up and the third pick, and it applies to purchases, sales, short positions, options and any other instrument whose value depends on those securities.
It runs from the moment the call is sealed at 6:30 New York time until the close of the session the call covers. It applies to any account the person controls, benefits from, or advises — a spouse's account and a holding company are not loopholes.
The morning shortlist is covered too. About a hundred names are scored before one is chosen, and trading the ninety-nine that were not published would be the same abuse wearing a different hat.
Who is bound by it
Everyone with pre-publication access: Gianluca Bove, anyone working for or with Reverstone Solutions SA, and anyone granted operator access to the system for any reason. There is no exemption for small positions, for long-term holdings opened in good faith, or for calls the person personally disagrees with.
Who is not
Subscribers are not bound by this. Paying for early access is precisely a licence to act on the call before the crowd, and that is the product. The distinction is simple: subscribers buy information, they do not produce it. Nobody who chooses what the call says may profit from knowing it first.
What this policy cannot prove
A rule is not an audit. We are telling you what we forbid ourselves, not handing you a way to verify our brokerage statements, and you should read it as exactly that much. What can be checked from outside is narrower but real: the call is sealed and timestamped before the market opens, so the moment we committed to a name is fixed by something we do not control.
If this service ever reaches a size where its publication visibly moves the stocks it names, the honest response is not a stronger promise. It is measurement — separating what the stock did because we saw it coming from what it did because we said so — and a liquidity floor high enough that the second effect stays small. Both are being built before they are needed, while the audience is small enough for the comparison to mean anything.
Breaches
A breach would be disclosed on this site, dated, alongside the sessions it touched. Removing the affected calls would be the wrong remedy: it would improve the track record, which is the opposite of a penalty.
Suspected breach? Write to contact@tickbird.ai.