What we are
Claughtdeck is an independent editorial desk. We write explainers and essays for readers in the United Kingdom who are trying to tell day trading apart from long-term investing: the time, the instruments, the tax wrappers, and the ways people fool themselves. We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We do not arrange deals, hold client money, manage portfolios, or give personal recommendations. If a sentence sounds like advice aimed at your life, that is a fault in the sentence. Tell us.
What we will not sell you
- Signals, rooms, funded-account introductions, or “copy this trade”.
- Broker rankings dressed up as research.
- A course that implies a living can be extracted from the London open.
- Stock tips, price targets, or screenshots of a winning day.
How a page gets written
Figures for tax and allowances are taken from public descriptions of the 2026/27 year and checked against GOV.UK where a stable page exists. When a Budget can move a number, we say so. Market structure — the London cash session, the existence of the US pattern-day-trader rule and its irrelevance to a UK broker, the FCA’s retail leverage caps — is described at the level a careful reader needs, and linked onward to primary sources on the tax page and the disclaimer.
Essays that use a scene say they are composite. Arithmetic illustrations say they are arithmetic. We would rather be dull than decorative. Corrections go to [email protected] with the page name in the subject. If you are right, we change the page and note the date.
Where to find us
15 Manor Cl, Ivybridge PL21 9BQ, United Kingdom. Telephone +44 7207 167376. Email [email protected]. The desk is staffed Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 UK time. We aim to reply to editorial and correction emails within two working days. We cannot reply to requests for a personal recommendation, because that is not the work.
Ivybridge is a market town on the edge of Dartmoor. It is a good place from which to remember that most financial decisions are not made on a trading floor. They are made at a kitchen table, with a deadline that is a school year or a retirement date rather than a candle.