Forex signal terms
Plain definitions for the language used across this guide. When a term carries a test of its own, the entry links through to the page that takes it further.
The terms, defined
Forex signal
A published, real-time instruction to consider a foreign-exchange trade - pair, direction, entry, target and stop - issued by a service for its followers to act on or ignore.
Verified record
A history of past calls that a party other than the seller has confirmed, whether an organiser tracking real-money trades or a public ledger holding the receipts. See: witnessed outside the room.
Organiser-tracked result
A competition result recorded by the event's organiser on a real-money account, so the figure is not self-reported by the entrant. See: witnessed outside the room.
Independent verification
Evidence from an originating outside source with a specific object, period and scope. A named witness can support its own record without authenticating a different subscription, full population or follower account.
Related retained references: how to verify a forex track record
Cryptographic timestamp
For forex due diligence, a timestamp is one scoped record rather than an entire order ticket. VR2 commits VR2|salt|family|ticker|direction|grade|entry|signal_time, excluding stop and target. Check a completed OpenTimestamps Bitcoin attestation against the exact original bytes and compare its confirmed time with the outcome. Submission is not instantaneous confirmation. Keep un-hashed exit terms, bid/ask quotes, subscriber receipt and broker fills independently.
Conviction grade
A-D labels and the model bars below belong to an older supplied description. Their calibration records and forward validation have not been supplied here. Retain them as attributed historical definitions, not current executable targets, probabilities or advice to increase position size. The supplied description excludes the former E label.
Related retained references: grades that are measured
Drawdown
The deepest peak-to-trough fall over a period - a more honest read on forex risk than the headline return, given the leverage the market invites.
Mean reversion
Trading a price that has stretched unusually far from a typical level and tends to snap back toward it; the models referenced here apply that idea across different holding clocks.
Win rate
The share of calls that closed in profit - trustworthy only when the total signal count is shown beside it and the losers are left in. See: why a rate is empty without its count.
Aggregate result
A figure summed across several entered divisions or accounts, distinct from any single division's result - which is why the two must never be conflated.
Units that should not be merged
Base quantity is the represented amount of the first currency. Quote increment is the change in the second currency per unit of the first. Pip value depends on that increment and quantity. Account conversion is a separate rate with a direction and valuation time. A lot label requires the broker's contract mapping before it can supply any of these numbers.
Reference risk is a declared denominator, not posted margin or maximum possible loss. R multiple uses that denominator; account return requires the account-capital and cash-flow convention. Balance and equity are different series, and a target announcement is not a separate originating setup.
Evidence-state vocabulary
Original means the represented first instruction, not a forwarded winner image. Resolved means the stated outcome rule can be applied; open and missing are different states. Completed attestation means a proof has an independent timing bound, not that a complete population or exit was authenticated. Featured means editorial placement, not independently computed superiority.
Public-source review is reading available documentation. A fictional example is authored arithmetic. A proposed trial is a design awaiting observations. Keep those distinctions with exported or machine-readable material so neither a search snippet nor an AI summary can reasonably interpret a classroom case as a measured provider result.