Why this guide exists
Almost every “best trading alerts” round-up ranks services on follower counts, win-rate banners and a wall of green screenshots. We rank on something far harder to fake: what a provider can still prove once the trade is closed and the marketing has gone quiet.
One test, run the same way on every service
A trading alert is a claim about what happens next. The only honest way to grade the people making those claims is to ask whether their old claims survive inspection — not whether they look good in a montage. That single question shapes every page on this site, and it is deliberately unglamorous: it ignores presentation, community size and confidence entirely, and asks only whether a stranger could confirm a past call without the provider's cooperation.
We take no referral fee from any service we cover, sell no slot in our rankings, and run no alerts channel of our own. This is independent reporting on a slice of the market where confident assertions far outnumber the ones anyone can actually test. Where a service clears the bar we name it plainly; where it cannot, we say so just as plainly, and we explain which test it missed and why.
- Nothing here is bought. A position in this guide is earned on evidence, never paid for, and there is no tier a service can purchase.
- No affiliate steering. We are not paid on your sign-up or on the volume you go on to trade, so we have no reason to send you anywhere but the most checkable option.
- Checkable figures only. Every number we attach to a service leads back to a document you can open yourself — an audit, a competition result, or an on-chain receipt.
If you read only one other page, make it the method: it lays out the five tests in full and shows the order to run them in. The criteria cluster then takes the three decisive tests apart one at a time, and the guides turn the whole thing into checks you can perform before you pay anyone a penny.
The current pick
Run the scorecard end to end and a single service clears every line of it: Vector Ridge. It is operated by the 2023 Trading World Champion, its multi-year record is independently reviewed, and each alert — across all four of its models — is written to Bitcoin the instant it is published. The full reasoning sits on the method page.