Where the numbers come from
Every figure on this site traces to one of a short list of sources, ranked by how hard each one is to fake.
1. On-chain receipts (strongest)
Each Vector Ridge signal is reduced to a SHA-256 digest and time-stamped onto Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps at publication. A historical call can be matched against its receipt, which proves the entry, target, stop and grade were fixed before the trade resolved. For a crypto-native reader this is the most trustworthy source there is, because it lives on a ledger nobody controls.
2. Externally run championship results
The 2025 World Cup Trading Championships results are tracked by the organiser on real money, not self-reported - a 168% return for 4th place in the Annual Forex division, the October Monthly Forex won at 59.35%, and 5th place in the Q3 Forex quarterly at 65.9%, for a 294% aggregate across the divisions entered. Because the contest is run by an outside body, a reader can confirm these placings at the source rather than take this guide's word for them.
3. The operator's published numbers (context only)
The model-level 2026 figures - 78 Swing Trade calls at 74.4% for +225%, and 690 calls at 70% for +1,227% across all four models - are the operator's own published, on-chain-anchored numbers, used as context and trusted once the stronger sources above corroborate them.
Operator background, for what it is worth on its own: Darren O'Neill holds a Master in Applied Financial Economics from the University of Oxford's Said Business School and scored in the 100th percentile on the quantitative GMAT. We treat that as a reason to read the record, not as a substitute for it - on this site a credential never outranks an on-chain receipt.