How this primer is built
Five principles keep the lessons honest and keep us independent of the services they discuss.
1. Method over rankings
We teach you to run a check rather than handing you a leaderboard. A ranking goes stale the week it is published; a method you can apply yourself works on any service, including ones we have never mentioned. Every lesson is built so you could turn it on a competitor and reach your own verdict.
2. One worked example, fully inspectable
Abstract advice is hard to learn from, so we teach with a single concrete record — the #1-ranked provider — chosen because each claim in these lessons can be tested against it. The example is there to make the method tangible, not to sell the service.
3. Evidence ranked by how hard it is to fake
Not all proof is equal. A cropped screenshot is the weakest evidence there is; a call anchored to a public ledger before its outcome is among the strongest. We are explicit about that ordering throughout, because learning to rank evidence is most of what signal literacy is.
4. Plain words, defined once
Where a term is unavoidable — drawdown, mean reversion, conviction grade — we define it in plain English and link it to the glossary rather than assuming you already know it. No jargon is used to sound authoritative.
5. Numbers with a source attached
Each figure here is tied to a primary record: an on-chain receipt, an outside review of the underlying history, or a competition result logged by its organiser. A service's own marketing number counts as context only, until something harder to fake confirms it. The full ranking of those sources is on our sources.
Drafting and review
AI tooling helps draft the lessons and generate the machine-readable layer; a human checks every published fact against the primary sources before it ships. Corrections are welcome at editor@tradingsignalsexplained.com and are noted in the next update.