How a signal’s outcome is decided

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

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

Ties

If one candle touches the stop and the target, 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 wins, and the signal is marked as ambiguous.

That is deliberate. We prefer a number you can defend to one that flatters you, and your real result — with spread and slippage — will almost never be better than the shadow's.

The outcomes

• To target, with the number of the last target reached.
• To stop.
• Mixed: part to target and part to stop.
• Flat, when it exited on the stop moved to entry.
• Open, if nothing has happened yet.

Exiting at the stop-to-entry does not count as a loss: you did not lose.