The honesty tests, in detail
A reward-to-risk ratio is only as good as the levels behind it. The scorecard is how we decide whether a source's levels can be trusted. Three of the five tests carry their own page, because they are the ones sources most often fail. The full five-test method is on the method page.
What the scorecard is really sorting
You rarely choose between two near-identical sources. In practice you are choosing between types — a chat call-out, an auto-copy room, a social caller, an aggregator, or a graded desk — and each type clears or fails the tests as a category. The scorecard makes that structural difference visible, so a glossy presentation cannot hide which category a source belongs to. The table below sorts the field on the two tests that decide most cases: were the levels locked before the outcome, and is the full record shown.
| Source type | Levels locked? | Full record? | Why it sits there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat-room call-out | No | Rarely | Operator edits and deletes; the levels move with the story. |
| Auto-copy room | Sometimes | Sometimes | A platform tracks results but the levels are rarely graded or fixed. |
| Social-feed caller | No | No | Posts vanish; often funded by broker affiliate links. |
| Re-poster / aggregator | No | No | Republishes others unchecked; carries every gap forward. |
| Backtest-only tool | Backtest | No | A simulated curve is not a live record anyone owns. |
| Graded, timestamped desk | Yes | Yes | Per-setup on-chain receipt; a measured grade; the full count shown. |
The bottom row is the only category that clears both columns, which is the case the guide makes for the pick — not that it shouts loudest, but that it is the one kind a stranger can actually audit. The three tests below each take one column apart in full.
Why these two columns decide most cases
Two of the five tests carry nearly all the sorting weight. Levels locked cannot be retrofitted: a source either fixed its entry, stop and target in public before they resolved or it did not, and no later polish changes that. The full record cannot be faked without an outright lie: a string of fine ratios means nothing if the losing trades were quietly removed. A source that clears both has handed you levels you can interrogate. The remaining three tests — a measured grade, stated levels and clean revenue — are real, but they tend to confirm a verdict the first two have already reached.
The three tests with their own page
Grades that are measured
How an A-to-D grade encodes reward against risk, calibrated to an engine's own returns rather than a mood.
Locked at release
Why a target you can move is a ratio you can fake, and how a public timestamp closes that door.
A re-runnable record
What a real record contains that a page of cherry-picked winners leaves out.
The remaining two tests — that the levels are stated as numbers, and that revenue comes from the subscriber rather than affiliate clicks — are covered on the method page, because they are quicker to check and rarely the deciding factor.