Frequently asked questions

A public database of trading predictions. A trader publishes a call with a stop and targets, the platform prices it from its own market feed at the instant it is accepted, and a background worker grades the outcome against market data. Nothing can be edited or deleted afterwards.

No. TradeDiscuss records predictions and grades their outcomes. It does not verify that anyone placed a trade. R is a ratio to the risk the trader defined, not a return on an account — position sizing, costs and concurrency are not modelled. See what we actually verify.

No. A call can be cancelled only while it is still waiting for its entry level to trade. Once entered, the only exit is a graded one — a target, the stop, an early close priced from market data, or expiry. The result stays permanently, and every state change is written to an audit trail rather than overwriting anything.

For a market call, the platform does. It takes its own quote at the instant the call is accepted, and the trader cannot type or influence that number. For a conditional call the trader names a level, and the call is not counted as a position at all until that level actually trades. If it never trades, the call ends as “never entered” — excluded from R statistics and counted in the trader's public unentered rate.

The fill takes the candle open, not the stop, so the loss is worse than 1R. The gap rule is symmetric: a favourable gap pays more than the target and an adverse gap loses more than the stop. Capping the downside while paying uncapped upside would systematically overstate every record on the platform.

At that resolution the order of events is genuinely unknowable. TradeDiscuss re-runs on finer data if it holds any; otherwise it applies the conservative outcome — the stop is treated as hitting first — marks the call ambiguous on its page, and includes it in that trader's published ambiguity rate. Publishing the rate matters as much as the convention.

The call is held for review rather than graded. A gap inside a closed session — an FX weekend, say — is expected and ignored. A gap inside an open session means the evidence is not there, and no grade is produced from evidence that does not exist. Those calls appear on a profile as held for review, not as wins or losses.

Because it would be misleading. The composite is withheld entirely below 20 graded calls rather than shown with a caveat, since a number on a screen gets believed regardless of the text beside it. The plain statistics — mean R, win rate, worst call, unentered rate — are always shown, and they lead. The formula is published, including what we think is weakest about it.

No. Calls sharing an instrument, a timeframe and a session are treated as one opinion repeated. A cluster of m such calls contributes √m to the effective sample, so twenty calls on a single move count as about four and a half rather than twenty.

Never. Reactions, followers and comments live on a completely separate axis from performance and cannot influence it. Performance also never awards reputation points, so the block works in both directions. There are no badges for posting frequency either — rewarding volume would be paying people to over-trade.

That a reader tapped it. It is self-reported and unverified — TradeDiscuss does not check that anyone took the trade, and the count never affects the call's grade or the trader's figures.

No, and this will never change. Leaderboard position, favourable grading, removal of a losing call and verification labels are all permanently not for sale. See how this is funded.

No. Calls are user-submitted predictions graded against market data. Nothing on TradeDiscuss is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and past results do not predict future outcomes. Read the full risk disclaimer.

Because its feed or its public-display terms are not yet confirmed. API access is not the same thing as the right to publish prices, store history, render them in share images or publish derived statistics. Until that is settled in writing an instrument stays browsable but not callable.