How results are measured
Every number answers one question: if you had read the signal and followed it by the provider's own rules, what would you have? The rules are the same for every provider and cannot be changed per provider.
Sealing
When a signal is published, its full content and a random nonce are hashed with SHA-256. The hash includes the hash of the provider’s previous event, so the record is a chain. A change to a signal is a new event in the chain, never an overwrite. Removing an event breaks every later link.
Signing
A provider can create an Ed25519 key in their own browser. Signed events carry the public key inside the sealed body, so anything published without the key, by anyone including this site, shows as unsigned or as a different key.
Timestamping
Every 10 minutes, new seals are combined into a Merkle root that is submitted to public OpenTimestamps calendars, which commit it to a Bitcoin block, usually within a few hours. Once confirmed, this proves each seal existed at that time, independently of this server.
Entry
Only whole 1-minute candles that start at least 30 seconds after publication count, which is the time a follower needs to act. A limit entry fills at its own price, never better. A market entry fills at the open of the first such candle.
Exit
In the candle that fills, only the stop can trigger. If a later candle touches both stop and target, the stop wins. A stop jumped over by a gap exits at the worse opening price. Several targets split the position equally. A stop move or close counts from its own reaction window.
Costs
5 bps venue fee and 5 bps slippage are charged on entry and on exit.
Result
Results are in R, multiples of the initial risk (entry to original stop), so a +2 R win means twice what was risked. Signals that never filled are shown, and excluded from results.
Ranking
A provider is ranked after 30 closed signals and 60 days. The score is total R divided by (closed signals + 20), which pulls short records toward zero. Sponsored placement is labelled and never changes the ranking.
Prices
Candles come from the public market data of the venue named on each signal. Nothing is adjusted by hand.