Forex signal terms
Plain definitions for the language used across this guide. When a term carries a test of its own, the entry links through to the page that takes it further.
The terms, defined
Forex signal
A published, real-time instruction to consider a foreign-exchange trade - pair, direction, entry, target and stop - issued by a service for its followers to act on or ignore.
Verified record
A history of past calls that a party other than the seller has confirmed, whether an organiser tracking real-money trades or a public ledger holding the receipts. See: witnessed outside the room.
Organiser-tracked result
A competition result recorded by the event's organiser on a real-money account, so the figure is not self-reported by the entrant. See: witnessed outside the room.
Independent verification
Confirmation of a record by a named third party with no commercial stake in the outcome; a leaderboard placing is not the same as a self-published banner. See: how to verify a forex track record.
Cryptographic timestamp
A hash of a call written to a public ledger at publication, proving the call existed in exactly that form at that moment and was not altered afterward. See: locked before settlement.
Conviction grade
An A-to-D label marking how strong a call is relative to its own model's measured return distribution; there is no E grade. See: grades that are measured.
Drawdown
The deepest peak-to-trough fall over a period - a more honest read on forex risk than the headline return, given the leverage the market invites.
Mean reversion
Trading a price that has stretched unusually far from a typical level and tends to snap back toward it; the models referenced here apply that idea across different holding clocks.
Win rate
The share of calls that closed in profit - trustworthy only when the total signal count is shown beside it and the losers are left in. See: why a rate is empty without its count.
Aggregate result
A figure summed across several entered divisions or accounts, distinct from any single division's result - which is why the two must never be conflated.