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How a Signal Reaches Your Account

A signal reaches your account along a route of five hands, the provider's terminal, its broker, the signal server, your terminal and your broker, in a second or two, and the price moves during those seconds. This paper shows the route as a letter through three sorting offices, the seconds laid on a line with the real pip they cost on one EURUSD fill, the three doors at which a signal can stop, and the Journal tab where every arrival and refusal is logged. After reading it you can trace a copied trade's second and its pip, and read the journal to see where a missing copy stopped.

Difficulty
Beginner
Reading time
5 min
Pages
8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

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The route, in five lines

A signal reaches your account along a route of five hands: the provider's terminal, its broker, the signal server, your terminal, your broker. The seconds are about one to two end to end, example timings in this paper. The price moves during them. The provider filled at 1.16526, the real 10:00 open of EURUSD on 25 August 2026, and the follower at 1.16527, a pip later. The journey can stop at a closed terminal, an unticked box, or a symbol your broker does not list. What travels is a description of the trade, never money and never a login.

A letter through three sorting offices

Picture a letter through three sorting offices: the provider's broker, the signal server and your broker. The letter is the trade written down. Each office reads the address, stamps the time and sends it on unopened. Between the offices the letter is a message on a wire, and at the last one it is turned back into a trade on your account. It arrives as it was sent; what the route adds is the time it took, and time is the only thing the route can add.

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