How SignalTrade's scoring model works
Every SignalTrade verdict is built from five sub-scores, each measuring something different about current market conditions across multiple timeframes. None of them is a black box — the app shows every one of them alongside the final call.
The five factors
- Trend — is price structure trending up, down, or ranging, and how consistently across timeframes?
- Volume — is the current move backed by real participation, or is it thin?
- Momentum — is the move accelerating, stalling, or reversing?
- Structure — where does price sit relative to real, algorithmically-detected support and resistance zones?
- Risk/reward — given the nearest stop and target, is the trade's math actually favorable?
Each factor scores 0–20. They combine into one composite score out of 100 and a confidence percentage, which together produce a Buy, Wait, or Avoid verdict.
Why some symbols don't have a live verdict
A scoring approach that works on one asset doesn't automatically transfer to another — market structure, volatility regime, and liquidity all differ. Before any symbol's verdict goes live for real scoring and alerts, that symbol's specific strategy is run against real historical price data in a backtest, and has to clear a real bar: a profit factor above 1.0, positive expectancy per trade, and enough trades for that result to mean something. If a symbol hasn't cleared that bar yet, SignalTrade still shows its live support/resistance structure and trend state — just without a Buy/Wait call attached, so you're never shown a fabricated recommendation.
Confirmed-close exits, not wick-triggered ones
Backtests and live guidance both react to a bar's confirmed close, not a single intrabar wick — appropriate for spot holders, who don't have a resting stop order that fires automatically the instant a level is touched. See spot vs. leverage trading for why that distinction matters.
What happens once you're already holding
Once a position is tracked, guidance shifts to Hold, Add, Take Profit, or Exit based on the same structure and trend readings — never framed as a stop-loss, since SignalTrade is built around holding through a drawdown, not being forced out of one. See when to sell crypto.