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What Is a Trading Signal

A trading signal is a message with six fields, instrument, direction, entry, stop, target and time, that describes one trade before it is placed; it is not an order, and nothing happens until a hand or the platform types it into an account. This paper shows the slip, an example signal drawn on the real hourly chart of the day it was sent, each field going into its box of the order window, and the three doors a signal arrives by. After reading it you can read a signal's six fields, find them on a chart, and say what still has to be done before it is a trade.

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

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A trading signal, in five lines

A trading signal is a message that describes one trade before it is placed. It has six fields: the instrument, the direction, the entry price, the stop, the target, and a time. It is sent by a person or a program, by app, chat, email, or the platform's Signals tab. It is not an order; nothing happens until someone places it on an account. The example through this paper uses real prices: EURUSD, buy, 1.16526, stop 1.16470, target 1.16700, sent at 10:00 on 25 August 2026, and it became a trade that reached its target in the 12:00 hour. The stop and the target are the example's fields, not this paper's advice.

A message on a slip

Picture a message on a slip with six fields and nothing else. The slip says what, which way, where in, where out if wrong, where out if right, and when. It is not the trade. The trade happens only when a hand, or a program, types the slip into an account as an order, and the slip stays a slip until then. A signal describes a trade the way a recipe describes a dish: everything needed is on it, and nothing has been cooked.

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