{"id":331,"date":"2025-08-13T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/ethics-module-not-financial-advice\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:45:00","slug":"ethics-module-not-financial-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/ethics-module-not-financial-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics Module and Why I Say Not Financial Advice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My coursework this month covered ethics and professional conduct\u2014the part that is not math but might matter more. It reinforced why I say not financial advice on every post where I breathe near a ticker symbol.<\/p>\n<p>I am a student. Enthusiastic, curious, color-coding my notes at midnight. I am not your analyst, planner, or guru. I share learning the way I share soup: generously, with boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>When I pass exams and earn credentials, I will still be careful with your trust. Trust is harder to compound than interest.<\/p>\n<p>If you learn alongside me, great. If you need help with real money, hire someone qualified and rested. I will be at the market buying kale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying standards of conduct reminded me why disclaimers are kindness, not fine print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studying-markets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}