How to check a signal provider before you pay him

Men message me who lost money to three different signal groups before they found me. A few hundred here, a course there, one subscription they forgot to cancel. What it cost them was worse than the money. It cost them the belief that anybody in this business is straight with them.

So before you send me or anyone else a dollar, run a check. It takes an evening. This is the one I use, and I built my own business to pass it, which means the last thing I should do is exempt myself from it.

• A real first and last name, a face on camera, a history you can search.
• A public log with dates, published as the calls happen.
• Losing trades in that log, sitting next to the winners.
• A way to watch him trade live, or real free calls, before you pay.
• Alerts carrying the pair, the entry, the stop loss and the take profit.
• A plain answer to how much he risks per trade.
• Cancellation in one click, no phone call, no retention pitch.
• One place where he has said in public that he got a trade wrong.

Is there a name and a face

Start with the easiest question. Who is this person. Not a brand name, not a logo. A human being with a first and last name, a face on camera, and a history you can search. If a man will not put his name on his own calls, the usual answer is that he intends to be somebody else next year.

An anonymous admin pays nothing for being wrong. He closes the channel, opens a new one, and the bad months stay behind with the old name. A man with his face on it pays for every losing week in public.

Is there a dated log, and does it have losses in it

This is the one that separates everybody. Anyone can post a green screenshot, and a screenshot is a picture of a number. No date you can trust and no context. You are seeing the one he chose to show you, out of however many he did not.

What you want instead is a running log. Every call, in order, dated, published as it happened rather than assembled afterwards. And it has to contain losing trades. A record with no red in it is not a good record, it is an incomplete one. A log that never loses is telling you something about the man keeping it. Read the worst stretch first. Anyone looks competent in a good month.

Can you watch him work before you pay

A man who actually trades will show you trading. Live, unedited, while the outcome is still unknown. That is uncomfortable, which is why so few do it. On a live stream you cannot pick the good one afterwards. You either read it right or you did not.

Free calls work the same way. If a provider gives away real signals every week, whole trades rather than teasers, you can follow them on paper for a month before your card ever comes out.

Read the alert itself

Ask to see a real alert. Not a description of one. The message that lands on a member's phone. It should carry the pair, the direction, the entry, the stop loss and the take profit. All of it, in the message, at the time it went out. If those numbers arrive later, the trade was not fully formed when he sent it.

Watch for the entry zone. An alert telling you to buy somewhere inside a wide band is not a trade, it is a conversation. With a range that loose, almost any outcome can be called a win afterwards, and you and the man next to you ended up in different positions. A real call has one price on it, because that is the price he got.

Risk, cancelling, and being wrong

Two boring questions tell you more than the entire sales page. First, how much do you risk per trade. A man trading his own money knows that number without thinking, and it is small. If the answer is vague, or it moves depending on how confident he feels, he is not running a process. He is gambling, and your account is riding along.

Second, how do I cancel. It should be one click in a billing page. If cancelling means emailing support and waiting, or a call with a man whose job is talking you out of it, the business is built on people who cannot get out.

Then go looking for a losing trade he discussed out loud. Not the market was manipulated. An actual sentence where he says he read it wrong and what he missed. A man who can say that in public is still learning, and he is the only kind worth following.

Ask for the worst week first. What a man does with that question tells you everything the sales page will not.

Run every line of this on me. The free Discord has two to four of my calls a week and the weekly recaps, every call logged win or lose since December 2025, and I stream the New York and Asian sessions on YouTube. If you are satisfied, Core is $99 a month and you can cancel in one click.