Content & Verification Guidelines

How we calculate Accuracy

Accuracy is the one-take metric: the percentage of replayed signals that reached a +2% price move from entry before a fixed stop, based on real 1-minute exchange candles (highs/lows, not just closing price). The stop is the same for every channel — 5% for the number channels are ranked by, 10% for a second figure on each channel’s page — and the channel’s own stop is not used. Each signal is followed until it reaches +2% or the stop; its entry is given 10 days. Signals still open, entries not reached within 10 days, and signals we have no candle data for are excluded from the percentage. The full rules, including every edge case, are on our Methodology page.

What "Verified" means

A channel is Verified when ChainRated has replayed its published signals against historical 1-minute exchange candles and computed the resulting track record — what following each signal exactly as posted would actually have returned. Verified does not mean "good"; it means the numbers shown are measured by us from real price data, not self-reported. A channel can be verified and losing, and its page will say so. Verification cannot be bought: everything we sell to a channel — a listing tier, the section of its own page it writes, and an advertisement marked Promo — buys visibility, and none of it changes a figure we computed.

Edits and deletions after publication

We record every signal message as first seen ("snapshot"), and every metric is computed from that snapshot — so editing or deleting a message afterwards changes nothing in a channel’s statistics. Deleted signals stay in them; they don’t disappear.

Separately, we re-read recent signal messages at the source — signals from the last 90 days — and compare each one against the snapshot we stored when we first read it. Two things get counted: the text no longer matching that snapshot, and the message being gone from the channel. Where we find something, the channel’s page shows the count and the date we last looked; where we find nothing — which is the ordinary case — it says nothing, because a clean note on almost every page is noise rather than information. The counts cover the same 90-day window we re-read rather than the channel’s whole history: a mark we can no longer re-check is a mark we could never withdraw.

The four kinds of feed we list

Not every channel in the catalogue is trying to do the same thing, and one label for all of them would hide the difference that matters most. We sort every listed channel into exactly one of four kinds, and the tabs on the Signal Providers page follow that sorting.

• Signal channels — publish entries we can replay. These are the ones that can become Signal Verified.
• Analytics channels — publish analysis, commentary or results, and no entries. Nothing on their feed could ever be replayed, so they carry no metrics. They are listed, not hidden, and the tab says "Unverified analytics channels" because that is exactly what they are: unverified by nature, not by neglect.
• VIP storefronts — the free feed is a shop window for a paid group. Same position as analytics channels: reviews and reports, no metrics, until the owner opens the paid feed to us.
• Promo funnels — publish neither entries nor analysis; the posts route readers into a third-party platform or bot the channel earns a commission from. Their own shelf, because the difference from an analyst is not cosmetic: an analyst is paid when readers stay, a funnel is paid for the traffic either way.

How a channel can prove more

A channel that starts out unverified is not stuck there. Two voluntary steps make its page carry more, and each one is a step the channel takes, never a verdict we hand down.

• Private feed open — the channel gives our reader access to its paid feed, and we replay those signals exactly as we replay public ones. What this settles is the words: there are no signals behind the paywall that we do not see.
• Proof of trades — the owner connects a read-only exchange API key, and we can see the account actually trading rather than only the posts about it. What this settles is the money: a channel can publish one thing and trade another, and a key closes that gap.

Both badges are held by a live fact and drop off on their own when the fact stops being true: access withdrawn, or a key disabled or expired, removes the badge without anyone asking us to. A badge that outlives the access it describes would be the page lying on the channel’s behalf.

When we mark a scam as Verified

A Verified Scam is a statement we make ourselves and stand behind — not a reader’s accusation passed on. It is the only kind of scam report that puts a flag on a channel. We publish one only when at least one of these is established, and established independently of the person who reported it:

• Money was taken and what was promised for it was not delivered — paid access that never opened, funds sent for management that never came back, a promised refund that never arrived — confirmed by more than the reporter’s word: transactions we can check, the channel’s own messages, or other people who paid.
• Results were faked — a track record the channel published that our own replay of its signals against exchange candles contradicts.
• The channel or the people behind it disappeared with other people’s money — payments taken, then the channel deleted, emptied or silent, with the money not returned.

The evidence itself stays with our moderators and is not published: we publish our finding, not somebody’s dossier.

What is not enough

• One unhappy subscriber. A single account of a bad experience is a review, and it belongs in the reviews.
• Losing signals. A channel can lose money and be honest about it; its page shows the losses, and measuring them is what we are for.
• A dispute about quality — targets too far, stops too wide, too few signals for the price.
• Charging for access, or publishing no free signals. That is a business model, not evidence; such a channel is listed as one we cannot verify, not as a scam.

How a Verified Scam flag is removed

A flag with no way out would be a sentence, not a finding. A Verified Scam comes off when the facts it rests on change:

• The people who lost money have been paid back — confirmed by them, or by transactions we can check.
• The evidence is shown to be wrong — the payments were refunded before the report, the messages were forged, or the record our replay contradicted was not the channel’s.

To ask, the channel’s owner claims the channel on ChainRated, then uses “Dispute this report” on the report’s page and sends what has changed. A person reads every request and answers in writing within 5–7 business days. If the request holds, the flag comes off the channel; if it does not, our answer says which part of the evidence still stands.

Duplicate / reposted signals

When a channel reposts a signal from another source (via native Telegram forward, or by copying the same price levels within a short window), we attempt to identify the original source and exclude the repost from that channel’s own Accuracy credit.

Methodology changes

We may refine our calculation methodology over time as we improve our parsing and verification systems. When we do, historical figures may be recalculated to stay consistent — we do not manually adjust individual providers’ numbers outside of this process.