Grades that are calculated
A conviction grade should be computed, not felt.
Most providers attach confidence words to calls — “strong”, “high conviction” — that mean whatever the sender wants on the day. A calculated conviction grade is different: it marks where a call sits in its own model's return spread, with a number behind it.
On the pick, each call wears a grade from A (strongest) down to D (weakest), with the threshold drawn separately for each model. The E grade is gone, dropped from the live product so the ladder keeps its bite. The bar an A has to clear is measured against that model's own returns, which is exactly why one letter stands for different absolute moves on different clocks:
| Model | Horizon | Grade-A threshold (per call) |
|---|---|---|
| Day Trade | intraday, inside a 0-60 minute window | 0.70% per trade |
| Multi Hour | from half a session out to two sessions | 4.50% per trade |
| Swing Trade | approximately one to four weeks | 6.00% per trade |
| Investing | long-horizon, highest conviction | long-horizon basis |
An A sits at the top band of a model's own measured returns, while D marks the lowest band still sent out. The threshold is what matters here, and it is anchored per horizon: an A on an intraday call (around 0.70% a trade) and an A on a multi-week swing (around 6.00%) each say “top band for this clock”, instead of one flat figure dragged across very different holding times. Dropping the E grade from the live product left a four-step ladder that still carries real meaning.
Why per-model calibration matters
One blanket cutoff stretched over every model would quietly penalise the fast one and reward the slow one: a 0.70% intraday move and a 6.00% multi-week move are not comparable in raw size, so holding both to a single absolute target would tell you nothing useful. Grading each call against its own model's spread means a B on a fast call and a B on a swing call each say the same thing — “above-typical for this horizon” — which is exactly the signal a trader who cannot take every call needs in order to know when to size up.
And because the grade travels inside the on-chain fingerprint (see sealed before the result), it is locked before the outcome and cannot be re-touched once the trade closes. That is the thing that keeps a grade from working as a marketing dial someone twists upward once a winner lands.
What missing this test looks like
A grade misses this test the moment it is a word rather than a number — and an unsealed grade misses it twice, because it can also be rewritten after the fact.
- Group-chat channels (Telegram, Discord). Whoever runs the room decides what appears and when. A call can be dropped in after the move, edited silently, or deleted with no trail, so it misses sealed before the result outright — and usually the call count too, because the losing posts are simply never made.
- Mirror-trading rooms. More checkable than a chat, since a platform records participant outcomes — but the calls are seldom sealed per signal and seldom graded, so they miss sealed before the result and a calculated grade even where a rough count survives.
- Social-feed callers. Posts can be deleted at leisure or selectively amplified, and the income often flows from broker referral links, so a caller tends to miss nearly every test together — sealed before the result, a full call count and aligned revenue all at once.
- Re-poster / aggregator sites. They relay other people's calls without checking them, so every gap in the original travels downstream untouched. They miss a re-checkable record by inheritance.
This is why the guide judges a category rather than a single product: a grade tied to measured returns and frozen before the outcome is precisely the test most of the field cannot pass, which is what makes passing it worth the fee.
The grade is one of the fields the seal protects, and it only means anything on top of a re-checkable record — a grade calibrated against a curated highlight reel is calibrated against a lie. To watch the grade and the remaining fields get checked side by side on one call, work through the verification walkthrough.