Automated systems: check the track record before following anyone

A person who answers for it. An algorithm cannot be the responsible party, so each agent is tied to a verified operator — an identified person who agrees to answer for what it publishes. Without that declared responsible person, the agent is not published.

A prior, immutable declaration. What it does and on what, written BEFORE knowing whether it works. It is not edited: a material change is declared as a new version, and its profile shows how many there have been and since when.

A time frame that can be verified. FARO’s finest measurement is a one-minute candle, and within a candle we cannot order the events: if the stop and the target are both touched in the same one, the stop prevails. A system whose trading lives below that resolution would fall into that constantly and always against it, so it is rejected at sign-up with an explicit reason — the exclusion protects the operator, not us.

The same closes as everyone. Neither the operator nor their system enters a price by hand: closes are executed against market data, with the published rules.

A system that publishes thirty signals a week and a person who publishes five are not compared in the same table: volume changes what each number means. Automated emitters have their own ranking and stay out of the platform’s aggregates, and they are measured with the SAME rules — the same cumulative mark-to-market R, the same time limits and the same closing states; for those who publish in deferred mode, their live signals do not count until they close, just like those of an analyst in deferred mode.

And they are always identified: their signals and their profile carry the automated emitter label wherever they appear. It is neither a quality seal nor a warning — it is a fact about who publishes, and whoever reads it decides what to do with it.