Comment by tovej

Yes, it says I have bare-minimum standards for how to cite references.

I never said I thought financial analysts are idiots. That's not a conclusion I made.

I gave a very reasonable reason: they want it to be more difficult to replicate the analysis. That makes sense if your goal is to make sure your work is profitable, rather than quality reporting and knowledge dissemination.

That would imply the people who set the standards (not everyone) is cynical and/or greedy. Not an idiot.

And still, presumably you are still allowed to add actual sources to financial analysis? You still failed the regular standard of good reporting on this. Your graphs also fail just regular data analysis sanity checks. There is, e.g., no thought given to whether it's even valid to compare data from two sources in one graph. You just do it.