A signal you cannot explain is a tip, not a strategy. This page documents exactly how the desk produces every alert — what has to line up before a signal goes out, the risk rules that are never waived, the situations in which we deliberately do nothing, and the rules we apply when we report a broker's regulation and loss disclosure.
Confluence first: technical and fundamental together
No signal is published on a single indicator. The desk requires confluence — independent factors pointing the same way — before an alert goes out.
On the technical side: trend structure on the higher timeframes, established support and resistance zones, momentum confirmation and the liquidity profile of the current session. On the fundamental side: the macro calendar, central-bank pricing and the prevailing risk sentiment across assets. A technically perfect setup that fights the macro backdrop is skipped; a strong macro story without a clean level to trade against is skipped too.
Risk rules on every signal
- A stop loss is fixed before publication — a signal without an invalidation level does not exist here
- Every signal carries at least one defined take-profit target; strong setups carry TP2/TP3 extensions
- We recommend risking 1–2% of your account per trade, never more
- No averaging into losing positions and no moving stops away from price
- Running trades receive management updates — break-even moves, partial closes, extended targets
- We never assume a guaranteed fill: no broker we cover offers a guaranteed stop-loss, so slippage is priced into how we size
When we don't trade
Standing aside is a position. The desk deliberately goes quiet in conditions where the edge disappears:
- The minutes around high-impact releases — NFP, CPI, FOMC and central-bank decisions — when spreads blow out and slippage is unpredictable (in SGT these usually land between 8:30 PM and 3:00 AM)
- Holiday and thin-liquidity sessions, including the Asian morning when the majors barely move
- Markets with unclear structure — if the chart requires imagination, there is no signal
How we report broker regulation and loss disclosures
The broker pages on this site follow rules as strict as the signal rules, because a wrong regulatory claim beside a broker link is a financial-promotion problem, not a typo.
We name the entity, not the group. A broker holding seven licences worldwide gives a Singapore resident exactly one of them, and that one is what we report. Pepperstone's group licences are real; the entity that onboards a Singapore resident is Pepperstone Markets Limited under SCB licence SIA-F217, so that is the licence we name. Capital.com onboards through Capital Com Online Investments Ltd under SCB licence SIA-F245.
We never claim local regulation that does not exist. None of the five brokers we rank holds a licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. We say so on every page rather than letting a long licence list imply otherwise, and our best trading brokers Singapore guide names the firms that are MAS-licensed even though we earn nothing from them.
We publish the retail-loss figure at entity level. These are regulator-mandated disclosures and they differ by licence for the same brand, so an unattributed figure is meaningless. The figures that apply to a Singapore-resident account are 79.6% at Pepperstone Markets Limited (SCB), 79.75% at Capital.com's international entity and 84% at ActivTrades. Base Markets publishes none, because Mauritius does not mandate one — read that as a disclosure gap, not as lower risk. Pepperstone's 79.6% is entity-specific: Pepperstone publishes 72.9% under FCA and CySEC, 75.2% under BaFin, 79.6% under SCB and 75–95% under CMA, and the figure that applies to you depends on the entity your account is opened with.
The regulator's own register is the source of truth, not search results and not other comparison sites. That is how we caught, and corrected, two facts the rest of the industry still repeats: ActivTrades is not CSSF-regulated (ActivTrades Europe S.A. was removed from the CSSF register on 18 October 2024), and Capital.com does support MetaTrader 5 alongside MT4, TradingView and an API.
Verification and publication
Every signal is timestamped on Telegram at the moment it is issued, with entry, take profit and stop loss already attached — outcomes are never claimed after the fact. Closed trades feed the weekly report, which tallies accuracy by points, not by trade count, and the running record is public on the performance page. Recent closed signals are listed on the signals page.
Limitations — what a signal cannot do
Signals are professional opinions about probable price moves, not certainties, and this methodology does not eliminate risk — it manages it. Individual results differ with spreads, execution timing and position sizing, and past performance does not guarantee future outcomes. Signals are general analysis, not personal investment advice; if you are unsure whether leveraged trading suits your circumstances, consult an independent licensed financial adviser and read our risk disclosure.