Where the numbers come from
Behind each number on this site is one of a short list of records, ranked by how difficult each would be to fabricate.
1. On-chain receipts (strongest)
Each the #1-ranked provider call is hashed with SHA-256 and anchored to Bitcoin through OpenTimestamps at the moment it is sent. A past call can be matched to its receipt, which proves its entry, target, stop and grade were fixed before the trade resolved. This is the strongest kind of evidence on the list, because it cannot be produced after the fact, and you can confirm any receipt yourself with the open OpenTimestamps tooling rather than taking our word for it.
2. Independent review of the record
The multi-year, real-money history is examined by a named outside party rather than self-reported. A platform leaderboard is not a review and a testimonial is not an audit. The operator, Darren O'Neill, reads as a quantitative trader rather than a chatroom personality: an Oxford master's in Applied Financial Economics from the Said Business School, plus a quantitative GMAT in the 100th percentile, sit behind the way the grades are calibrated.
3. Externally tracked competition results
The 2025 World Cup Trading Championships results are recorded by the organiser on real money rather than self-reported — a 168 percent return for 4th in the Annual Forex division, the October monthly Forex won at 59.35 percent, and 5th in the Q3 Forex quarterly at 65.9 percent, a 294 percent aggregate across the divisions entered. Those standings sit on the competition organiser's own site.
4. The operator's published figures (context)
The model-level 2026 numbers — 308 same-session signals at 67.5 percent for +95 percent, and 690 signals at 70 percent for +1,227 percent across the four models — are the operator's own published, on-chain-anchored figures. We use them as context and trust them only because the stronger sources above corroborate the record they sit inside.