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The pinned message is where a channel writes down the rules it says it trades by. That makes it the most useful thing to read and the easiest to check. Treat it as a claim to test, not a credential.
Before you weigh a channel's win rate, weigh its price tag. A flat monthly fee turns into a hurdle your account has to clear every single month just to break even — and on a small account that hurdle is brutal. Here is the arithmetic, and the incentive problem the fee creates.
The promise of accuracy sits at the top of the channel. The disclaimer, when it exists, sits somewhere you have to go looking. That gap is not an accident, and it always points the same way — at you.
That tidy 'Total Profit' banner at the top of a results post is often only the winning trades added together, with the losers printed lower down and quietly left out. Re-adding every row by hand takes ten minutes and changes the picture completely. Here is exactly where the gap hides and how to close it.
Teaching is a real job, so the fact that someone charges for it proves nothing either way. What separates an education business from a dream being sold is which of its claims survive a check you can run before the money moves.
Most return claims can be refused before you check anything about who is making them. Compounding turns a modest-sounding weekly rate into a number that answers the question on its own.
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.
A burned copy-trader asked where to invest next, and the reply with the most votes was three words long. It is nearly right, and nearly is the problem: a rule that names a venue cannot tell the next scheme from the one operation you could actually check.
A feed of results with no entries cannot be checked by anyone, ever. We list those channels anyway, unverified and unranked, because deleting them would answer the reader's question with silence.
Verified means measured, not good. Thirteen of our 22 verified channels are underwater on the record we computed for them — including one that gets 89% of its entries right.
A channel that publishes nothing checkable is not stuck there. Two voluntary steps make its page carry more — and both prove transparency, not performance.
Nearly every accuracy figure a signal channel advertises is 90% or better, and almost none of them say what was counted. We measured the claims in 25,932 archived messages, then measured the signals.
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