The tests, in detail
The scorecard exists because the paid-signal market is thick with assertions no outsider can independently test. Three of the five tests carry their own page, because they are the ones rooms most often fail. You will find the whole five-test method laid out on the method page.
What the scorecard is really sorting
A buyer rarely compares two near-identical rooms. In practice you are choosing between types of channel — a free room, a paid room, a copy-trade community, a mirror bot, or a sealed desk — and each type passes or fails the tests as a category. The scorecard's job is to make that structural difference visible, so a glossy server cannot hide which category it belongs to. The table below sorts the field on the two tests that decide most cases: was the call timestamped before its outcome, and is the win rate shown with its full count.
| Channel type | Timestamped? | Count shown? | Why it sits there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Discord room | No | Rarely | Owner edits or deletes at will; losing calls disappear. |
| Paid Discord room | No | Rarely | A fee does not add proof; history still lives in the chat. |
| Copy-trade community | Rarely | Sometimes | Platform tracks results but seldom per-call proof. |
| Re-poster / mirror bot | No | No | Forwards others unaudited; inherits every gap. |
| Automated / bot caller | Sometimes | Backtest only | A backtest is not a live result; no one owns the record. |
| Sealed, timestamped desk | Yes | Yes | Per-call on-chain receipt plus a named outside review. |
Only the bottom row fills both columns, and that is the structural argument the guide makes for the pick — not that it shouts loudest, but that it is the single type an outsider can audit. The three criteria below take one test apart each.
Why these two columns decide most cases
Nearly all the sorting falls to two of the five tests. Sealed before the result cannot be retrofitted: a room either anchored its calls in public before they resolved or it did not, and no later polish changes that fact. Count shown cannot be faked without an outright lie: a win rate is only evidence when the full run of calls, losers included, sits next to it. A channel that clears both has handed you a record you can interrogate. The remaining three tests — the measured grade, open pricing and aligned revenue — are real, but they tend to confirm a verdict the first two have already reached rather than overturn it. That is why the table sorts on the two, and why a room can have a slick server, an active community and a confident pitch and still land in a row with two crosses.
The three tests with their own page
Sealed before the result
Why a public timestamp is the test a chat-window call cannot fake its way around.
A re-openable record
What a real signal history contains, and what a row of hand-picked winners leaves out.
Grades that are measured
Tying an A-to-D conviction grade to a model's own returns rather than a mood.
The remaining two tests — open pricing and aligned (non-affiliate) revenue — are covered on the method page, because they are quicker to check and rarely the deciding factor.