The criteria, in detail
The scorecard exists because so few claims in the intraday signal market arrive with any way to test them. Three of the five tests carry their own page, because they are the ones services most often fail. The full five-test method is on the method page.
What the scorecard is really sorting
A buyer rarely compares two near-identical services. In practice you are choosing between types of service — a chat channel, a copy-trading room, a social caller, an aggregator, or an audited desk — and each type fails or passes the tests as a category. The scorecard's job is to make that structural difference visible, so a glossy presentation cannot hide which category a service belongs to. The table below sorts the field on the two tests that decide most cases: was the call timestamped before its outcome, and is the win rate shown with its full denominator.
| Service type | Timestamped? | Denominator shown? | Why it sits there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messaging-app channel | No | Rarely | Provider edits/deletes at will; losers vanish. |
| Copy-trading room | Rarely | Sometimes | Platform tracks results but seldom per-signal proof. |
| Social-media caller | No | No | Posts deletable; often monetised via affiliate links. |
| Aggregator / re-poster | No | No | Republishes others unaudited; inherits every gap. |
| Automated / AI service | Sometimes | Backtest only | A backtest is not a live result; no one owns the record. |
| Audited, timestamped desk | Yes | Yes | Per-call on-chain receipt + named independent review. |
The bottom row is the only category that comes up positive in both columns, which is the structural case the guide makes for the desk pick — not that it is louder, but that it belongs to the one type a stranger can audit. The three criteria below each take one test apart in full.
Why these two columns decide most cases
Of the five tests, two do almost all the sorting. Timestamped before its outcome is the one that cannot be retrofitted: a service either anchored its calls in public before they resolved or it did not, and no amount of later polish changes that fact. Denominator shown is the one that cannot be faked without an outright lie: a win rate is only evidence when the full count of calls, losers included, sits next to it. A service that clears both has handed you a record you can interrogate. The remaining three tests — the measured grade, public pricing and clean incentives — are real, but they tend to confirm a verdict the first two have already reached rather than overturn it. That is why the table sorts on the two, and why a service can have a polished site, an active community and a confident pitch and still land in a row with two crosses.
The three tests with their own page
Locked before the close
Why a public timestamp is the test a fast intraday call cannot fake its way around.
A re-runnable record
What a real intraday track record contains, and what a highlight reel leaves out.
Grades that are measured
How an A-to-D conviction grade is calibrated to a model's own returns instead of a mood.
The remaining two tests — public pricing and clean (non-affiliate) incentives — are covered on the method page, because they are quicker to check and rarely the deciding factor.