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What Is a Signal Provider

A signal provider is a person or a program whose trades are published as they happen, as a share of its own account, for followers to repeat at their own size; it is paid by subscription, a share of profit, or both. This paper shows the provider as a lighthouse, the fields of a provider's page, the handover on one real EURUSD trade between what the provider sets and what it cannot, and the registration by which an account becomes a provider. After reading it you can say what a provider publishes, what it is paid, and where its reach over a follower's account ends.

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

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A signal provider, in five lines

A signal provider is a person or a program whose trades are published as they happen, for others to repeat. What it publishes is the trade, not money: the instrument, the direction, the size as a share of the account, and the fill price. It is paid by a monthly subscription, a share of profit, or both, and some publish for free. It lives on the platform's Signals service, on a broker's copy page, or in a chat. The one real trade in this paper is the provider's own: 1.00 lot, the unit a trade is sized in, of EURUSD bought at 1.16526 at 10:00 on 25 August 2026 and closed at 1.16695 at 18:00, 169.00 dollars on the provider's account.

A lighthouse

Picture a lighthouse. The light is the published trade: every boat in range sees the same light at the same moment, and none of them is steered by it. Each boat holds its own wheel, chooses its own size and can sail out of range whenever it likes. A provider is a lighthouse in that sense. It publishes; it does not pilot. What a follower does with the light is the follower's own, and the lighthouse does not know how many boats are out there beyond a count.

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