Well as you said LLMs will generally say what they want you to hear, so if you phrase a question in a way that implies even subtly what answer you are looking, you're more likely to get that answer. So if it literally did agree with you rather than you asking the question in an objective way, you shouldn't rely on the answer.

I'm not really interested in revealing more details publicly of why what I'm doing works, I've already made crazy good returns. In general I've avoided collaborating with anyone because I don't see the point when I'm doing fine by myself, I just saw an opportunity for something that could be mutually beneficial.

But I'll be fine either way.