What our own data says about the channels we rate — reviews of the catalogue and one-off analysis, plus product updates: what we started checking, and when. No headline feed: we publish numbers we measured.
\"Lifetime\" is the word that turns a monthly fee into a single payment. But the access dies with the channel, not with you, and a large share of channels go quiet within a month. Here is what the promise is actually measured against.
We built a bot to follow signals. It won 88.1% of nearly 25,000 trades and still ended down. Here is what actually drained the account — and why none of it had anything to do with picking the right trade.
One account called a leveraged Korea ETF more often over the last 90 days than the whole of our index called bitcoin. The post announcing it carries a hash, a slash and a USDT pair, exactly like every other signal in the feed.
One channel printed 400% on a trade where the coin moved 20.06% at 20x. The arithmetic behind that is the exchanges' own convention and nothing about it is false. What stays behind on the exchange screen is the multiplier, absent from 91.2% of the profit claims in our archive.
A subscription usually outlives the channel it pays for. Counting each publisher once, the median run from a channel's first published call to its last is 76.5 days, half have under three months of history, and the ordinary ending is silence.
A subscription to a signal channel is usually pictured as somebody's opinion on the market. In our index it is mostly a feed of names that appear in one channel and nowhere else, and bitcoin turns up in fewer than one call in a hundred.
We timestamped every signal in the index, as of August 2026. A quarter of all calls land in the six hours after midnight UTC, and the busiest hour carries under four times the traffic of the quietest, though one publisher supplies 48.35% of the sample.
Leverage is the most reliably published field in our corpus: 92.78% of signals carry one, while half carry no stop at all. It is also the field that tells a follower the least, because most calls come from channels that post the same multiple every time.
The median signal trade in our index closes 7.20 hours after publication, and the same corpus scored a different way gives 37. Both numbers are real, and the gap between them is the answer to a question most people never ask.
A signal with no stop has an opening and no ending, so whoever scores it afterwards gets to choose when to stop counting. In our corpus that describes just over half of everything — and 95% of that half comes from a single channel.
Most signal channels cannot be scored at all, and the reasons are mechanical rather than statistical. The same reasons tell you when a channel's own numbers are unfalsifiable.
Subscriber counts say almost nothing about whether a channel is still trading. In our index, as of 17 August 2026, the busiest publisher has 10,372 followers and the largest audience in the set has produced eleven scoreable calls.
Across 3,927 replayed signals, 1,958 were never a trade a follower could take. One channel accounts for 1,501 of them, which is the more useful finding: the rate varies far more between publishers than the headline suggests.
We replayed every parsed signal from 47 Telegram channels against real 1-minute candles. The largest single outcome is neither a win nor a loss: it is a trade a follower could not have entered, as of August 2026.