A recurring piece of advice in signal groups is to follow several channels so you are not relying on one opinion. Here is what that runs into, measured on our own index rather than argued.

Five of the channels we track are publishing one operation's signals. Ten pairwise links between them, every one at 100% overlap — meaning every distinct call on the follower channel also appears on the leader, not a majority of them. The median lag between the original message and its copy runs from 1 to 12 seconds across those links. Two of the five publish the calls in Spanish. Between them the group carries roughly 432,000 subscribers.

Subscribe to three of those for diversification and you have bought one feed three times, at three prices, with three sets of numbers that will agree with each other because they describe the same trades.

What the site does about it, so this is checkable rather than a claim:

  • The channel list folds reposts into their source instead of giving each one its own row, and says so in the header count.
  • A repost's page carries a notice naming the channel it copies, the share of its signals that appear there first, and how many seconds earlier.
  • Our channel score has an honesty axis worth 25% of the total, and whether a feed is somebody else's is 20% of that axis. A confirmed copy scores zero there; the channel the calls came from keeps its marks. A copy is not an independent track record and is not rated as one.

Two honest limits. Detection compares published messages, so a channel that retypes calls rather than forwarding them takes longer to catch, and one that alters the levels while copying may never be caught this way at all. And overlap alone does not prove intent — two channels reposting a common third source look related by this measure too, which is why the low-overlap pairs are left alone rather than labelled.

The uncomfortable version of the same finding: the free channel and the paid one are sometimes the same operation, and the paid room's advantage over the free feed can be a few seconds. Worth knowing before the renewal.

Longer write-up with the method: clone signal channels.