Copy trading: you allocate an amount to a master trader, and your account mirrors their positions automatically, sized to your allocation. You keep custody — the master never touches your funds — but leverage and position sizing are theirs, and their worst day becomes yours proportionally.
Signals: a channel publishes calls (symbol, direction, entry, targets, stop) and you place the trades yourself. You control sizing and whether to take a call at all; you also carry the execution risk — a signal whose entry never fills is not a trade, and roughly a third of everything we replay never fills.
Why it matters here: the two need completely different verification. Copy traders have an equity curve, so we score them from it (Life Score). Channels have no curve — they have published claims, so we replay every signal against real candles and report how often price actually moved 2% their way before the stop.
Ratings live in two places: Copy Traders and Signal Providers. Neither is a recommendation.