How a signal’s outcome is decided

A signal is settled once it is known how it ended: it reached the take profit, it reached the stop loss, or a mixture of the two.

Where it is: Channels → tap the channel → Shadow result.

With what data

With your broker's real candles. We ask your own terminal what price did minute by minute from the moment of the signal, and walk that path candle by candle.

We do not use a generic reference price: your broker's gold and somebody else's are not exactly the same price, and the one that matters is yours.

How the walk works

From the entry, in order, looking at each candle:

• If it touches the stop loss, that part closes at a loss.
• If it touches a take profit, that part closes in profit.
• If you have stop-loss-to-entry configured and the TP1 is reached, the stop loss on what remains moves, exactly as it would have in reality.

Ties

If one candle touches the stop loss and the take profit, there is no way to know which came first: a candle only records its high and low, not the order.

In that case the stop loss wins, and the signal is marked as unclear.

It is on purpose: we count the worse of the two cases. and your real result — with spread and slippage — will almost never be better than the shadow's.

The outcomes

• To take profit, with the number of the last take profit reached.
• To stop loss.
• Mixed: part to take profit and part to stop loss.
• Flat, when it exited on the stop loss moved to entry.
• Closed protected, when it exited on the stop loss but in profit: the stop loss had already moved above your entry, so touching it kept what the move had given you.
• Open, if nothing has happened yet.

Exiting at the stop-loss-to-entry does not count as a loss: you did not lose. And closing protected does not either: you won.

Why the stop loss keeps moving up on its own

If you have it switched on in your settings, the stop loss does not stay where the channel put it:

• When price passes the TP1, the stop loss moves to your entry price. From there, the worst that can happen is getting out even.
• When it passes the second, the stop loss moves to the first. When it passes the third, to the second. Every leg price travels, you keep.

The stop loss only improves, never worsens, and is never placed on the other side of the price. That is why a trade can end as “closed protected”: it did not reach the take profit it was aiming at, but it did leave money.