Questions
How the numbers are produced, what they mean, and what we cannot see.
Getting started
No. You sign in with the code Telegram sends you, exactly as you would on a new phone, and we store an encrypted session rather than a password. If your account has a two-step password it is used once to complete sign-in and never stored.
The history of channels you ask us to backtest. We only ever read — we never post, reply, join, leave or change anything — and we do not read your private conversations.
Disconnecting from the Telegram page deletes the session here and signs it out at Telegram’s end, so it cannot be used again by anyone including us.
Any channel you are already a member of. We read what you can already see — we cannot get you into a channel you are not in.
No. A backtest is a full read of a channel’s history and real computing time, so the entry price is 2.99 credits.
How the numbers are made
A live broker feed, at one-minute resolution. Each signal is walked forward one minute at a time from the moment it was posted, to see whether price touched the stop or a target first. No daily closes, no averages, no modelling.
We record the loss. Inside a single one-minute candle we cannot know which came first, and every ambiguity on this site is resolved against the channel rather than in its favour.
All of them. Most channels never say what share of a position to close at each target, and that choice changes the result completely — so we compute every version during the run: close it all at the first target, split across each one, or hold to the last. You switch between them on the report for free.
Yes. If it replied to a signal telling members to close half or move the stop to breakeven, the simulation does that at the minute it was said.
Because win rate ignores the size of the wins. A channel taking 20 pips of profit against a 100-pip stop needs to win more than 83% of the time simply to break even. Read net profit and profit factor, not the win rate on its own.
When a strategy sells part of the position at each target, the pips on a row are the blended result of every exit, not the distance to the furthest target reached. Half a position out at 40 pips and half at 140 blends to 90.
Limits
Messages the channel deleted. A channel that removes its losing calls will look better here than it was, and nobody can recover a post that is gone.
Signals posted only as images with no caption — if the levels exist only as pixels we cannot read them, and the signal is not counted.
Your broker’s spread, commission and slippage. Results are gross, and those costs are yours rather than the channel’s.
More than one month usually gives. Twenty or thirty trades is a small sample, and a narrow margin over a short window is close to a coin toss. If a result matters to you, buy a longer period.
Because the post did not contain a tradeable instruction, its levels contradicted its direction, or we had no market data for that instrument. The report tells you which, and the trade counts as neither a win nor a loss.
Money
You buy credits — one credit is one US dollar — and spend them on reports. From 2.99 credits. Nothing renews, nothing expires, and there is nothing to cancel.
You are refunded immediately and automatically. A run that produces no report costs you nothing, and that is enforced in code rather than by asking.
No. You bought the channel’s history, not a session. Reopening a report, changing the lot size or switching strategy is free forever. A different date range is a new report.
No. We show what each one actually did, in numbers you can check. The decision stays yours — we sell measurement rather than advice, and we are not licensed to give the latter.
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