In brief
- Write down, before the first signal, what a signal is and how its outcome is counted.
- Record each signal at the moment it is posted, and never edit or delete one afterwards.
- Give every outcome a name, including a target followed by the stop.
- Show the losses in the same list as the wins.
- Publish it in a form anyone can check: a page a signal, the chart as posted, the data as a file.
Every signal channel says it wins, and most readers have learned not to believe it. A record they can check is the one thing that changes their mind, because it is the one thing a channel that hides its losses cannot copy. This is how we keep ours: every signal our bot has posted to Forexia's free channel since 4 October 2026, each with its own page.
Write the rules down first
A record is only as honest as the rules it is counted by, and rules written after the results are always kind to them. Before the first signal, write down:
- What a signal carries. The market, the direction, the entry, the stop and every target, all given when it is posted.
- What ends it. Ours ends at the last target, the stop, or the end of the tenth trading day, when it closes at the market.
- Whether anything is managed. Moving the stop, closing early or adding a target later all change the outcome; if you do any of them, the record has to say when and why. Ours does none of them: the stop never moves.
Then publish the rules where the record is. Ours are on How we count.
Record each signal as it is posted
The time a signal was posted is the whole of its credibility. A signal written down after the move can be anything. On Telegram the post itself is the timestamp, and an edited message is marked as edited, so post the levels in the message and never change them. Keep your own copy as well, outside Telegram, with the time and every level.
Then follow it to its end in public: a reply at each target as it is reached, and one when it closes. A record built from those replies matches what a member saw at the time.
Name every outcome, the awkward ones too
Wins and losses are easy. The ones that need a rule are in between: a signal that reached a target and then turned and hit its stop, or one that ran out of time. Our record names each one the same way every time:
- All four targets. The last target was reached.
- A target, then the stop. Shown as "TP1, then the stop" (or TP2, TP3), never as a win. Someone who held the whole position to the stop lost on it.
- Stopped before TP1. A plain loss of the stop distance.
- Closed after ten days. Neither the last target nor the stop; the furthest target reached is named.
For example, the EURUSD buy of 7 October 2026 reached TP1 and then its stop. Its page says exactly that.
Put the losses next to the wins
Not on a separate page, not in a footnote: in the same list, in the same type. Of the 6 free-channel signals our bot has closed so far, 1 reached all four targets, 2 reached a target and then the stop, 2 were stopped before the first target, and 1 closed after ten days; 1 is still open. All of them are on the record, newest first.
A record that short says little about what the next signal will do, and the record should say so too. Being honest about how little a few weeks prove is part of keeping one.
Be careful what you add up
A pip total is the most common headline on a signal channel and one of the least useful. It depends on which target you count each signal at, it hides how large the losses were next to the gains, and nobody trades every signal at the same size. A percentage of winners has the same problem: it says nothing about how much a loss cost. We publish neither. We publish every signal and its outcome, and let the reader count.
Make it checkable
- A page for each signal, with the chart as it was posted and every update. Ours are linked from the record.
- The data as a file anyone can download and count for themselves: ours is signals.json, free to reuse with a link.
- The channel itself. Point readers at the posts, so they can compare the record with what was sent.
How readers spot a record that is not
The tells are the same everywhere: screenshots instead of posts, results announced but never the levels beforehand, gaps where signals used to be, "closed in profit" with no level, and records that start over after a bad month. Our post on whether forex signals are legit goes through them from the reader's side.