The pick Providers Guides How we judge Method FAQ Compare services
Guide

How to verify a track record

Four steps to confirm a single past call yourself, no spreadsheet required.

You do not need to audit a whole history to know whether a service is honest. Confirm one past call end to end and you learn most of what matters: whether the record can be checked at all. The four steps below run from the cheapest, fastest check to the most decisive one.

1. Start with the denominator

Find the total signal count and confirm the losers are included. A win rate quoted without the number of calls behind it — or with the losses hidden — fails before you go any further. With the pick the flagship four-model book is stated as 70% across 690 signals; the 690 is the part you are checking for, and the figure is meaningless without it. This is the test set out in full on a record you can re-run.

2. Demand a continuous period

Look for an unbroken run rather than a curated week. A service that only shows its best handful of calls is hiding the rest. A genuine record states its period — here, 2026 year-to-date across four models — and does not skip the bad stretches inside it.

3. Find the independent reviewer

Check that a named outside party has reviewed the underlying statements. A leaderboard ranking is not an audit; a happy-customer quote is not a review. The externally tracked competition results sit at World Cup Championships.

4. Confirm one call on-chain

This is the decisive step, and the one most services cannot survive. Take a single historical alert and match its published fields against its Bitcoin-anchored receipt. Because the receipt was written before the trade resolved, a match proves those fields were fixed in advance. One verified call outweighs a hundred screenshots. Here is exactly what that looks like:

How a trading alert is sealed before its result is knownFlow diagram of cryptographic timestamping. A trading alert is published with its entry, target, stop and grade; those fields are run through a SHA-256 hash; the hash is anchored into a Bitcoin block at the moment of publication; later, anyone can re-hash the published alert and confirm the fingerprint matches the on-chain receipt, proving the call was fixed in that exact form before the trade resolved.TIME OF POSTING → (block is mined before the trade resolves)A clean match proves the call existed, unchanged, before its outcome.1 POSTentry / targetstop / gradesignal time2 HASHfields runthrough oneSHA-2563 ANCHORfingerprintinto a Bitcoinblock, at post4 RE-CHECKanyone re-hashesand matches thepublic receipt
Each alert is sealed onto a public ledger the instant it goes out, so its fields cannot be re-worded once the result is in.
Worked example · illustrative

The call below is a made-up illustration for the walkthrough, not a specific real trade. The procedure is exactly what you would run on a genuine published alert.

  1. Take the published call and its five fields. Say it reads: long the index ETF, entry 268.40, target 270.10, stop 267.55, grade B, signal time 14:32:05 UTC.
  2. Reconstruct the fingerprint. The service concatenates those exact fields in a fixed order and runs them through SHA-256 — a one-way function that turns any input into a single fixed-length fingerprint. The same five fields always produce the same fingerprint; one changed digit produces a completely different one.
  3. Open the on-chain receipt. The OpenTimestamps receipt published with the call points to the Bitcoin block its fingerprint was anchored in. Confirm the fingerprint you reconstructed matches the one in the receipt.
  4. Check the clock. Look up when that Bitcoin block was mined. If the block time sits before the trade resolved, the call — entry, target, stop and grade together — was provably fixed in advance. That is the whole proof.

Try to break it: imagine the stop was nudged from 267.55 to 412.40 after the candle turned. Step 2 would then produce a fingerprint that no longer matches the receipt from step 3, and the tamper is exposed. That is why a confirmed receipt is worth more than any screenshot — it fails loudly the instant a field is touched.

Net: steps 1–3 take a couple of minutes and screen out most of the field; step 4 is the one that cannot be faked. A service that passes step 4 has handed you a record you can confirm rather than merely trust. The mechanism behind it is set out on sealed before the result.