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How to Read a Market Review Report

Interpret review windows, approved changes, unchanged items and source conflicts without mistaking review counts for community trading activity.

A market review report summarizes a defined editorial review window. Its counts describe Trade Index's evidence and decisions, not the number of trades completed across a game.

Prepared by:
Trade Index draft, prepared with Codex
Reviewer:
Pending editorial review
Published:
Not published

Draft guidance awaiting human editorial review. No publication or review date has been assigned.

Draft guideEvidence and limitations

Find the scope before reading the headline

Identify the game and the review-window dates. A report about one selected group of items does not establish movement across the entire catalog.

Check which items were reviewed and which had only automated source checks. The two groups can be different, so the report should distinguish them.

Understand what each count means

Items checked means distinct covered items, not the number of fetch requests. Items approved means items with relevant approved decisions. Multiple observations for one item should not inflate the number of reviewed items.

An unchanged item needs an actual review decision. It must not be counted merely because its stored baseline has no newer entry.

Read increases and decreases in the correct unit

An approved Adopt Me score change and an approved Brainrot income change measure different things. Do not combine their raw differences into a single market total.

A largest-mover list should state its window and comparison method. A percentage ranking also needs a valid earlier denominator and compatible states.

Treat disagreement as an unresolved question

A conflict can involve identity, variant, unit or conflicting source numbers. Its presence does not establish which source is correct.

A manual-review backlog describes unfinished editorial work. It is not user trading activity and should not be promoted as a popularity or demand measure.

Read a no-change report carefully

A useful no-change report explains what evidence was examined and what decisions were recorded. If no approved movement occurred, say that directly.

This is narrower than saying the market was stable. A baseline-only catalog has too little observation history to support that conclusion. Do not publish an empty period as if a review happened.

Follow one decision back to the item

Open a changed or reviewed item's detail page. Match the date, previous state, new state and editorial note to the report summary.

If the commentary introduces a cause that the note does not support, the report needs review. You should be able to reproduce its counts and arithmetic without accepting a general market story.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions

Does a reviewed-item count measure trading activity?

No. It measures the stated editorial coverage. It is not a count of offers, buyers or completed trades.

Should a report exist every calendar week?

Only a genuine reviewed period supports a report. A scheduled workflow can prepare a draft, but it must not invent decisions or commentary to fill a calendar.

Can a report sum changes across different games?

Raw score and income changes should remain separate. Different games and incompatible units do not form a meaningful combined market total.

What makes a no-change report useful?

It identifies the actual review window, evidence examined and recorded decisions, while separating no approved movement from an unsupported claim of market stability.

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