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A rating site's database is a table its owner can edit. Here's how ChainRated saves each new signal as it's posted, writes every day's records to Arbitrum, and how you can check any one of them without trusting us.
Most channels we track have their signals replayed against real candles. The ones that publish nothing to replay — commentary, shop windows for a paid group — say so on their own page. Look a channel up before you pay for it.
Following someone else’s trades: fees, custody, drawdown, and what the exchange window hides.
The numbers on a copy-trading leaderboard are real, and the exchanges publish the formulas. What is being sold is the sort order. Here is each field, what it is measured against, and the order to read them in — which is close to the reverse of the order they appear.
You copied a leader, and your entry sits worse than theirs — or the trade never opened at all. The exchanges document exactly why, and none of the reasons are deceit. Knowing the mechanism tells you which part of the gap is yours to set.
You did not choose the positions sitting open under your account — the leader did, and now the leader is gone. Here is what happens to those trades, and how to be ready before it does.
The leader's page shows a return; your account shows less. Three separate costs sit between the two — a weekly cut of your profit, an exchange fee on every copied trade, and a spread you never see itemised. Two of them bite whether the week wins or loses.
Wallets, exchanges, and how crypto trading actually works.
A call lands and the order will not go through. The position you already hold does not pause with the app: it is still marked, still charged funding, still liquidatable. Most of what protects you there had to be decided before the screen froze.
A contract can be removed from an exchange while your position in it is still open, and the removal runs on the venue's calendar rather than the channel's. The sequence is published in advance, the settlement price is calculated rather than traded, and on some venues your stop is cancelled before the end. None of that is a surprise if you read the announcement page for the markets you actually hold.
The call worked, the position was green, and then the exchange closed it - no stop, no liquidation, nothing you clicked. Auto-deleveraging is the last step in a venue's risk system, and it lands hardest on exactly the kind of trade a signal channel posts. Here is what the exchanges themselves publish about it, and why the channel's scoreboard and your account can both be honest and still disagree.
The channel was long. Twenty minutes later it calls a short on the same contract. Three accounts following the same two posts end up in three different places, and the difference is a dropdown most followers have never opened.
Signals, order handling, and risk management, explained.
A call says 20x. Your account will not give you 20x at the size you want, and the reason is not your settings. Venues tie the maximum leverage to the size of the position, which means the same instruction produces two different trades on two different accounts.
The trade is on and the message changes: a target moves, a stop moves, the call becomes cancel this one. The manual follower may never see it, the automated follower may have it applied without being asked, and the exchange may refuse to act on it at all. Here is the routine that decides all three before it happens.
A call arrives, you type the ticker, and nothing comes back — or something comes back that is not the thing the message meant. Switching venues to chase the trade moves the levels out from under you, and a rejected order is telling you something specific rather than asking you to try again faster.
The call went out, your order went in, and only part of it filled. The position you own is not the one the message described, the unfilled remainder is still a live order you can be handed back later, and the average price you actually paid is the entry that decides your result.
Spot red flags and dissect real scam schemes.
A slick app, a rising balance, support that answers in seconds - and no order book behind any of it. Every problem that arrives later follows from one fact nobody checked at the start: whether the venue exists as a venue. Here are the tests that answer it, in the order that costs least.
Two very different things hide under the word partner. One is a referral arrangement that any user can get and that pays out of your trading fees. The other is a claim to speak for the exchange, and that one is checkable in about a minute.
After the money is gone, the first thing a group tells you is to report them. It is worth knowing exactly what that button does before you build a plan on it — and where your effort actually pays.
A paid channel that charges inside the app instead of asking for a wallet transfer has changed the payment rail, not the accountability. Here is what the platform's own terms and API documentation say about renewals, cancellation and refunds — and how that compares with a card and with a crypto transfer.
Rules, etiquette, and keeping your account safe.
Before the first call, most channels ask for two things: register through this link, and send us your UID. One of those decides who gets paid out of your trading, the other confirms you are on the list. Neither lets anyone touch your account, and both are worth understanding before you paste anything into a group chat.
If you are going to trade someone else's calls, the cheapest discipline available is to give them their own account. It makes the result countable, keeps an API key away from everything you own, and turns leaving into three steps instead of an archaeology project.
You clicked leave, so you think you are done. But the renewal still bills, the bot still holds a key, and the exchange still trusts a whitelist you set months ago. Quitting a channel is closing every door you opened when you joined — in the right order, before you lose access.
A channel posts a call, you take the trade, and months later you owe a number nobody kept for you. Here is what to save at the moment of each fill, and why the channel's win-rate screenshot is worthless as a record.
Read Life Score, verification badges, and real stats.
Selling trade calls is a licensed activity in some countries and sits outside the perimeter in others, and the line moves the moment the seller touches your money. Three questions decide where a channel stands, and each one has a public page you can look up in minutes.
"Running since 2019" is the second-oldest trust signal after the subscriber count, and it costs about as little. The app does not display a creation date, so everything a reader treats as age is an inference from something else — and each of those things can be edited, bought or renamed.
A checkmark beside a signal channel's name reads like approval. The platform that issues it describes something narrower: an identity claim from an approved application. Here is what the mark covers, what it cannot cover, and the three things that look like it but are not it.
You ask what happened to the call that hit its stop, and a minute later your message is gone while the celebration under the winners is still there. That is worth noticing, and it is not the proof of fraud people take it for. Here is what it does mean, and where to put the observation so a delete button cannot reach it.
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