A screenshot is a story, not a dataset.
A profit screenshot does not tell you the starting capital, deposits, withdrawals, losing accounts, open risks, fees, taxes or time period. Even a genuine winner does not tell you how everyone else did. This is a reasoning problem: the denominator is missing.
Ask who benefits from your attention.
Does the person earn from subscriptions, courses, referrals or your trading volume? A financial incentive does not by itself prove dishonesty. It is a reason to ask for clear disclosures and evidence that stands apart from the sales pitch.
Luck and repeatability are different claims.
“I made money” and “I can reliably make money after costs” are not the same statement. Nor is a backtest the same as a live, repeatable outcome. To evaluate a claim, ask what would count as evidence against it—not only what makes the story exciting.
A useful sharing rule.
Do not fight a selective success story with an invented disaster story. Link to an actual source, keep its dates and population attached, and avoid turning a product-specific statistic into a claim about everyone. Our evidence library keeps those boundaries visible.