Trading signal terms, defined
Plain-language definitions for the vocabulary this guide leans on. Wherever a term carries a test, its entry routes you to the page that takes that test apart.
The terms
Trading signal
A published, real-time instruction to consider a trade - instrument, direction, entry, target and stop - issued so a subscriber can act on it.
Sealed call
A call whose fields have been fingerprinted and committed to a public ledger at send-time, so it can be shown to have existed in that exact form before the trade resolved. See: sealed before the result.
Cryptographic fingerprint
A fixed-length value produced by running a call's fields through a one-way hash; changing any field produces a completely different value, which is what makes tampering detectable. See: sealed before the result.
On-chain receipt
The Bitcoin-anchored record of a fingerprint, datable to the block it was committed in, which lets anyone confirm the call existed before a given moment.
Call count
The full number of past calls, wins and losses together, which is the figure that makes a win rate meaningful rather than decorative. See: a re-checkable record.
Independent review
An examination of the underlying statements by a named third party with no commercial stake in the result. See: verifying a record step by step.
Conviction grade
An A-to-D label marking how strong a call is relative to its own model's measured return spread; there is no E grade. See: grades that are calculated.
Drawdown
The deepest peak-to-trough fall over a period - a more honest read on risk than the headline return.
Mean reversion
Trading on a price that has stretched unusually far from a typical level and tends to snap back toward it; the four models apply that idea on different clocks.
Win rate
The share of calls that closed in profit - trustworthy only with the full call count shown beside it. See: why a win rate needs its call count.