Small risk. Distant targets.
We publish a trade only when the reward is worth the risk. That means the stop sits close to the entry and the targets sit far from it — so a winning call earns more than a losing one costs.
The shape of a trade
Every signal is published with its entry, its stop and every target before the market has decided anything. The distance between those levels is the strategy: the red band is what a losing call costs, and the green bars above it are what a winning one is reaching for.
- Entry
- Stop loss
- Targets
Why one or two losing calls do not sink the week
It is not a claim about being right more often than anyone else. It is arithmetic about the size of being right against the size of being wrong, and it holds for any strategy, at any desk.
The wider your target sits from your stop, the less often you need to be right. This is the whole relationship, and it is worth knowing whoever you trade with.
| If your reward is | You need to be right |
|---|---|
| 1 : 1 | 50% |
| 1 : 2our minimum | 33% |
| 1 : 3 | 25% |
| 1 : 4 | 20% |
| 1 : 5 | 17% |
The table is the pure arithmetic. Spread, commission and swap all push the real figure a little higher, and a strategy planned to break even exactly will lose money once they are paid.
This is why the shape of a trade matters more than how often it wins. A desk that is right half the time at 1 : 3 is well ahead; a desk that is right three times in four at 1 : 0.5 is going backwards.
Three winners and two losers, at those distances, still finish +248 pips ahead. Nothing about that depends on who is trading.
The least we will publish
1 : 2.00
A call has to offer at least 2 times what it risks. Below that the numbers above stop working in our favour, and a setup has to be exceptional in some other way to be worth taking.
It is a floor, not a wall. Occasionally a setup is good enough to take at a narrower ratio, and the desk can publish it — but only by deliberately overriding the warning, never by not noticing.
Few calls, chosen carefully
There is no quota. A signal goes out because the setup qualifies, not because the day needs filling, and on a day when nothing qualifies nothing is published. The number of signals measures how busy a desk is. The record measures whether it is any good.
Sometimes we close before the target
A target is a plan, not a promise we make to ourselves. When a market turns, comes back to retest the entry, or simply stops behaving the way the setup said it would, we take the profit that is on the table rather than defend a number. Fast markets do not leave long to decide, and an open profit is not a profit until it is closed.
Where a call was closed early, the reason is written on the signal itself — so you can read it on the record instead of taking our word for it.
Fast markets, fast decisions
When a market moves quickly the window to act is measured in minutes. The desk decides once, and the platform carries that decision to every connected account at the same moment — which is the part a person cannot do by hand across hundreds of accounts.
How execution worksWhen we trade
The desk concentrates on the Asian session.
Ranges are tighter in those hours and levels hold more cleanly, which is exactly what a strategy built on a close stop needs: the stop can sit near the entry without being taken out by noise that means nothing.
Outside those hours we publish less, and only where a setup is confirmed rather than merely promising. Quiet stretches are part of the method, not a gap in it.
How to read a signal
Every call carries the same parts. If you are trading them by hand rather than through automated execution, this is what each one is telling you to do.
Entry
The price the call is written from. A market order takes what is available now; a limit or stop order waits at the level instead. Every result we publish is measured from this number, not from whatever your broker filled you at.
Stop loss
Where the idea is wrong. It is chosen before the trade is published, and it defines the one unit of risk everything else is measured against. A call without one is never published.
Targets
Up to five levels to take profit at, numbered TP1 upward. TP1 is the one the risk-to-reward on the signal is quoted against, because it is the first outcome the trade can actually reach.
The percentage on each target
How much of the position that level closes — and it is a share of the position as you opened it, not of what is left. On a three-target call split 34 / 33 / 33, TP2 closes a third of the original size, not a third of the remainder. The percentages across all targets never add up to more than 100.
Strength, 1 to 5
The desk's conviction, and nothing more. It is not a probability of winning — it is what sets the default risk on the call, from 0.25% of balance at 1 up to 2% at 5. A five-star call is one we are willing to size up on, not one we promise will work.
Market, limit or stop
A market call is live now, at whatever price is trading. A limit call waits for price to come back to a better level. A stop call waits for price to break through a level and keep going. Limit and stop calls only start costing you anything if the market comes to them.
Recommended lot size
Published per $1,000 of your own balance, so one figure fits every account: at 0.10 per $1,000, a $2,000 account trades 0.20 lots and a $20,000 account trades 2.00. It is guidance for placing the trade yourself, and it always rounds down.
How a result is measured
One definition, applied to every signal, so that the record adds up. These are the rules behind every number on the results page.
Pips, from the published entry
A result is the distance from the entry we published to the price the call closed at — not from your fill. Every subscriber gets a slightly different fill, and a record that used them would be a different record for each reader. It also means the published result is not your return: your spread, commission, swap and size all differ.
The R multiple
The result divided by the distance to the stop. It answers “how many times what we risked did this make”, which compares one call to another far better than pips do — 40 pips on a tight stop can beat 200 on a wide one. It is blank when there was no stop, because then there is nothing for the result to be a multiple of.
Targets count on a touch
A level counts as reached the moment price trades there, wick included — not when a candle closes beyond it, which is a rarer and much later event. When a minute could have touched both the stop and a target, the stop is scored first; assuming the good one would publish a win the trade did not have.
“All targets hit” and “closed in profit”
Two different endings, labelled differently on purpose. The first means the call ran its full course. The second means it ended in profit without reaching every level — usually because the desk took what was there rather than defend a number. Calling both of them the same thing would flatter the second.
When a close price is corrected
If a closing price is entered wrongly, correcting it recomputes everything that hangs off it — pips, R, the status, and which targets that price actually reached — in both directions. A correction can take an outcome away as readily as it can grant one.
Rules that do not bend
Not intentions. The platform enforces each of these.
- No signal is published without a stop loss, and we never invent one to fill the gap.
- No signal risks more than 10% of an account, however good the setup looks.
- Position sizes round down, never up. A size that cannot be worked out honestly is refused rather than guessed.
- A price more than 20% away from the entry has to be confirmed before it is saved — the guard that catches a mistyped level.
- Every change to a published stop or target is recorded and announced, so nobody is left holding an old level.
Protecting capital comes first
Every rule below exists to make a losing call survivable. Not one of them makes a winning call bigger.
A stop before anything else
A signal with no stop is never risk-sized, and a default stop is never invented to fill the gap. If the level is not there, the call is not published.
A share of your balance, not a lot size
The same call is a smaller position on a smaller account. Nobody inherits a size that was decided against somebody else's balance.
Sizing rounds down
Where the arithmetic does not fit your broker's lot steps it rounds down, and a position that cannot be sized honestly is refused rather than guessed at.
Your ceilings win
Your maximum lot size and your maximum open trades are applied after everything else, and no signal can override them.
Questions we are asked
- How many signals will I get?
- Fewer than most services publish. There is no daily quota — a call goes out when a setup qualifies, and on a day when nothing qualifies, nothing is published. Quiet stretches are part of the method rather than a gap in it.
- Why is the stop so close to the entry?
- Because it is what makes the arithmetic work. A tight stop is what allows a distant target to be worth several times the risk, and it is why the entry has to be chosen carefully — there is no room to be roughly right.
- Why do you sometimes close before the last target?
- A target is a plan, not a promise we make to ourselves. When the market turns, comes back to retest the entry, or simply stops behaving the way the setup said it would, we take the profit that is there. Where that happens, the reason is written on the signal.
- Does a five-star signal mean it is more likely to win?
- No. Strength is conviction, and what it changes is the size we suggest risking — from 0.25% of balance at one star to 2% at five. Nobody can put a probability on a single trade, and we do not pretend to.
- Will my results match the published ones?
- No, and no honest service will tell you otherwise. Published results are measured in pips from the published entry. Your fill price, spread, commission, swap and position size all differ, and those differences can be material.
- Do I have to use automated execution?
- No. Every call is published in full — entry, stop and every target — so it can be placed by hand on any platform. Automated execution places it on your own MT4 or MT5 account for you, sized from your balance, if you would rather not.
- Which markets do you trade?
- Mostly gold and the major currency pairs, in the hours where those markets behave the way this method needs. We do not publish a call in an instrument simply because it is available.
What this page is not
It is not a projection. Every figure above describes signals that have already closed, and market conditions change.
Results are measured in pips from the published entry. They are not the returns of any account — your fill price, spread, commission, swap and position size all differ.
Read the calls before you pay for them.
The free signals are written the same way as the paid ones, and the record covers both.
See the free signals