Grades that are measured
A conviction grade should be calculated, not vibed.
Most providers attach confidence words to calls — “strong”, “high conviction” — that mean whatever the sender wants on the day. A measured conviction grade is different: it marks where a call sits in its own model's return distribution, with a number behind it.
On the reviewed service every call carries a grade from A (highest) to D (lowest), and the threshold is per model. There is no E grade; it was removed from the live product in 2026 so the scale keeps its meaning. The bar that earns an A is set against each model's own returns, which is why the same letter means a different absolute move on a different horizon:
| Model | Horizon | Grade-A bar (per trade) |
|---|---|---|
| Day Trade | intraday horizon | 0.70% avg / trade |
| Multi Hour | part-of-day horizon | 4.50% avg / trade |
| Swing Trade | roughly one-to-four week horizon (the flagship) | 6.00% avg / trade |
| Investing | long-horizon, highest conviction | long-horizon |
Read the letters as bands within one model, not across models: A sits at the top of that model's own measured returns and D at the lowest rung still published. Since the threshold moves with the horizon, an A earned on a one-to-four-week Swing call (about 6.00% a trade) and an A earned on a part-of-day call (about 4.50%) both translate to “top of the range for this clock”, which is why no single absolute target is stretched across wildly different holding periods. The ladder stops at D; an E rung once existed but was taken out of the live product in 2026, leaving a clean four-step scale.
Why per-model calibration matters in a review
Judging all four models against one fixed percentage would quietly reward the slow horizons and shortchange the fast ones: a 6.00% Swing move and a 4.50% part-of-day move are not comparable in raw size, so holding both to a single absolute target would tell a reader nothing. Grading each call against its own model's spread means a B on a Swing call and a B on a Multi Hour call each say the same thing — “above-typical for this horizon” — which is the comparison a reviewer actually needs to weigh one model against another.
And because the grade travels among the fields inside the on-chain fingerprint (see sealed before the close), it is committed before the outcome and cannot be rewritten once the trade is done. That is precisely what keeps a grade from becoming a knob the marketing team turns up after a winner lands.
How the field tends to fall down here
A grade that is a word instead of a number has already failed this test — and a grade left unhashed fails it a second time over, because nothing stops it being rewritten later.
- Messaging-app rooms (Telegram, Discord). Here the operator is also the archivist, free to post a call after the pair has already turned, quietly revise it, or erase it with nothing left behind. That sinks sealed before the close immediately, and it usually takes the denominator down with it, since the rooms where calls go wrong are rarely the ones left on display.
- Copy-trading platforms. A platform that logs participant results is a step up from a chat window — but the underlying calls are seldom stamped per signal and almost never graded against a distribution, so even with a rough count on hand they still miss sealed before the close and a measured grade.
- Social-media callers. When a caller can quietly delete the duds, spotlight the winners, and bank a broker affiliate fee on every click, the failures arrive in a bundle: sealed before the close, a real denominator and outside corroboration all give way together.
- Signal-aggregator sites. An aggregator forwards calls it never audited, which means whatever could not be verified at the source stays unverifiable downstream. By that inheritance alone it forfeits a re-runnable track record before its own first post.
It is this pattern that earns the “review of a field” framing rather than a single-product write-up: a grade tied to measured returns and frozen before the outcome is the very hurdle most of the category stumbles on, so clearing it is the thing a reader is actually paying to find.
Among the fields the timestamp locks down, the grade is one, and it carries weight only when it sits on a re-runnable record — calibrate a grade against a cherry-picked reel and you have calibrated it against a fiction. To watch the grade and the rest of the fields verified together on a single call, follow the record-check walkthrough.