Five things that make a forex signal service credible

Most forex signal services are not credible. The pattern is consistent: a Telegram channel, edited screenshots, vague performance claims, hidden losses, and a payment page that takes crypto only. If you're evaluating signal services, here are the five concrete things that separate the legitimate ones from the rest.

1. A live, public dashboard

If you can't browse every closed trade with timestamps and outcomes, the service is hiding something. Edited screenshots posted to a Telegram channel are not a track record — they're a sales tool. A real service publishes results in a format anyone can audit.

What to check: Can you scroll back through the last 30 days of trades on a public page? Do the timestamps match real candle closes? Is every loss visible alongside the wins?

2. Breakeven exits reported separately from take-profits

Lumping BE wins into a single "win rate" inflates the number. A credible service shows you the split: TP%, BE%, SL%. If the service won't tell you what fraction of their wins are full take-profits versus protective exits, assume the worst — they're hiding a high BE rate.

3. A clear, written risk disclosure

Forex trading is high-risk. Any service that doesn't explicitly say so — including past-performance disclaimers and warnings about leverage — is either ignorant of basic financial regulations or banking on you not noticing. Both are bad signs.

Look for: "Past performance is not indicative of future results", "trading involves significant risk", "results may differ based on broker conditions and execution timing". These aren't legalese — they're the truth, and a legitimate service is comfortable saying so out loud.

4. A real refund policy

A 7-day or 30-day money-back guarantee is the bare minimum. If a service requires upfront annual payment in crypto with no refund window, it's optimizing for collecting payment before disappointed subscribers can chargeback. The economics make sense for the operator. They don't make sense for you.

5. Realistic, mathematically possible claims

"+555 pips on one EURUSD trade last week" is impossible if the strategy is short-term scalping. "Made back my subscription in 2 days" is meaningless without context on lot size and risk. "9 pairs covered, all winners" is statistical fiction over any meaningful time window.

Sanity check: Open the service's performance page. Pick the biggest single-trade win they advertise. Does it fit within the typical pip range for that pair on the timeframe they're trading? If not, the testimonials are fabricated.

How to apply this to TeachTrades

You don't have to take our word — apply the five tests:

1. Visit /results. Every closed signal is there with timestamps.
2. Look at the homepage success rate. The TP / BE / SL breakdown sits directly underneath.
3. Read our risk disclosure at the bottom of the homepage.
4. We offer a 7-day money-back guarantee on all plans.
5. The biggest single-trade win on our dashboard is consistent with our typical pip range. No "+500 pips in one trade" claims.

If any of these change in the future, this article will be wrong and you should stop trusting us. We're publishing it specifically so you have something to hold us to.