How Breakout Alerts compares to other forex signal services
Six forex signal services and toolkits, side by side, including the rows where we lose. Every fact below was read off the other company's own website.
Here is the short version. Most signal services sell you a win rate. We sell you a ledger. About a third of our alerts win, the book is ahead anyway, and every one of those results is public with the losers in it. The table below puts that next to what the other names in this space actually show on their own sites.
One piece of vocabulary before the numbers, because everything here is measured in it. R is multiples of what you risked. Risk 1% of your account and get stopped out, you lost 1R. Same trade runs three times as far to its target, you made 3R. It is the only unit that lets you compare a gold trade to a EUR/USD trade honestly.
Those are alert-tracking results measured in R from each alert's entry to its exit, not a broker statement and not a promise about your account. Your fills will differ. Trading carries a real risk of loss and past results never guarantee future ones.
The comparison table
Scroll sideways on a phone. The shaded column is us. “Not found” means we looked on their site on September 19, 2026 and could not find it, not that it does not exist somewhere.
| Criteria | Breakout Alerts Rule-based alerts | HowToTrade formerly ForexSignals.com | Learn2Trade Telegram signals | FX Leaders Web signals | Forex Early Warning Currency heatmap | MQL5 Signals Copy trading | Indicator toolkits LuxAlgo and similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | Alert with entry, stop and target | Live analyst streams, trade ideas, forecasts | Telegram signals, up to 15 a day (VIP) | Web signals, full details on premium | Currency-strength heatmap and arrows | A stranger's trades copied to your account | Chart indicators; you decide the trade |
| Every result published, losers included, to anyone | Yes. Weekly recap, per-market pages, stats page | Not found on their site | Claims a 76% success rate; no trade-by-trade record found | P/L report for premium members only | Example trades on X and their blog, not a full record | Yes. Pulled from each provider's live account | None by design (LuxAlgo says so) |
| Signals timestamped before the outcome is known | Yes, since 13 April 2026, when live recording began. Everything before that we rebuilt from history, and we say so | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not applicable | Yes. Taken from the account's own history | Not applicable |
| Method | Written rules on closed candles, 7 strategies | Human analysts | Analysts plus an algo tier | Analysts | Currency-strength model | Whatever the provider does | Pattern and order-flow indicators |
| Markets | 9 FX pairs, gold, silver, oil, US30, US100, US500 | Forex focus | Forex and crypto | Forex, commodities, indices, crypto | 28 pairs, gold, crypto | Depends on provider | Anything on TradingView |
| Delivery | Web dashboard and email | Live rooms and app | Telegram only | Web, app, email | Telegram push, mobile app | Inside MetaTrader 4 / 5 | On your TradingView chart |
| Price | Free tier · $19.99 · $49.99 a month | $29 a month | Free channel; VIP £39 a month, or £21.50 paid six months up front | $12.40 a month billed yearly, or free if you fund their partner broker | $21.95 a month | About $30 to $100+ a month per provider | Not shown; annual billed 40–50% below monthly |
| Free trial | 14 days of Pro, no card | 7 days | Free channel with limited detail | Free tier | None | None; you fund an account | Varies |
| Trades for you | Not yet. Automation is in testing against the same ledger | No | Copy-trading tier | No | No | Yes, that is the product | No |
| Live win rate they show | About a third win. Published in full, with the average winner, average loser and longest losing streak | None shown | 76% claimed | Behind the paywall | None shown | Per provider, from the live account | None, or a marketing number |
Company marks belong to their owners and are shown only to identify the service in each column.
Six questions to ask any signal service
You can run this checklist on us too. That is rather the point.
- 1. Can I read the losing trades before I pay? Not a screenshot of winners. The whole list, open to people who have not subscribed. Ours is the weekly Dossier and the per-market pages.
- 2. Was each signal recorded before the outcome was known? A record assembled afterwards can leave things out. Ours are written down when the rule fires, usually within a minute of it. Here is the part most services would not tell you: live recording started on 13 April 2026, and everything in the book before that date we rebuilt from price history, so those early rows were written after their trades had already finished. They are still in the book, and we would rather point at them than quietly drop them. Grading rules change too, and every change is dated in the calibration log.
- 3. What is the average R per trade? Win rate without R is a number with no units. A 76% win rate risking three to make one loses money. Here is the maths on ours.
- 4. Does every alert carry an entry, a stop and a target? “EUR/USD looking bullish” is a horoscope. A trade you can size is a trade you can check.
- 5. What happens when a strategy stops working? Ours get benched in public, with the numbers that forced it, in the calibration log. Ask the others.
- 6. Who makes money if I lose? Some free channels are paid by the broker you deposit with. Our only revenue is the subscription.
Breakout Alerts vs HowToTrade (formerly ForexSignals.com)
HowToTrade is the old ForexSignals.com under a new name. For $29 a month you get daily live streams run by analysts, weekly forecast reports, a community and its trade ideas, with a 7-day free trial. It is a trading room, and a well-known one.
The difference is what the product is. A room gives you people to watch and talk to. We give you a complete trade the moment a rule fires, and then we record what happened to it. We could not find a public trade-by-trade record with losers on their site. If you learn by watching someone trade live, pick them. If you want to check a record before you trust it, pick us.
Breakout Alerts vs Learn2Trade
Learn2Trade runs a free Telegram channel, VIP tiers with up to fifteen signals a day at £39 a month or £21.50 if you pay six months up front, a separate copy-trading product from about £58, and a lifetime deal if you deposit with one of their partner brokers. The site advertises a 76% success rate on VIP.
We could not find the trade-by-trade record behind that percentage. Ours is public and it says roughly a third, which sounds worse until you add the R. A 76% win rate risking three to make one is a losing book; a one-in-three win rate risking one to make about two and a half is a winning one. The other honest difference: they are Telegram, we are not. If Telegram is where you live, that matters.
Breakout Alerts vs FX Leaders
FX Leaders publishes free signals on the web with the full entry, stop and target held back for premium members, who also get mobile and email alerts across forex, commodities, indices and crypto. Premium is $12.40 a month billed yearly, and they also give a free year to anyone who opens and funds an account with their partner broker.
They do keep a profit and loss report with filtering and export, which is more than most. It sits behind the paywall. Ours is on the open web for anyone, subscriber or not, which is the one row on this page we care most about. Worth knowing about that free year: if the broker is paying for your subscription, the broker is the customer. Ours is the subscription and nothing else. They cover crypto; we do not.
Breakout Alerts vs Forex Early Warning
Forex Early Warning is built around a currency-strength heatmap: it shows which currencies are strong and weak across 28 pairs, gold and crypto, and pushes alerts through Telegram and a mobile app. It is $21.95 a month with no free tier, and it has been running for years.
A heatmap tells you which way the wind is blowing. It does not hand you a trade with a stop and a target. They do have a page headed “track record”, but what it carries is example trades posted to X and their blog, and the page says as much. Representative examples are not a record you can audit. We are the opposite shape: fewer markets, every alert a complete trade, and the whole book public.
Breakout Alerts vs MQL5 Signals (copy trading)
MQL5 Signals is a marketplace inside MetaTrader 4 and 5. You pick a provider, pay roughly $30 to $100 or more a month, and their trades are copied into your funded account automatically. MQL5 pulls each provider's entire trading history straight from the live account it is monitoring, so the growth, drawdown and reliability figures come from real fills rather than from the provider's marketing. That is the strongest proof anywhere in this comparison, ours included, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
What you give up is control. You are trusting a stranger's account, their strategy can change without telling you, and you take the execution risk. Today we never touch your account: you get the alert, you size it, you take it or skip it. Automation is in testing on our own accounts and will be judged by the same public ledger before anyone else can use it. Until then, if you want hands-off and you have MetaTrader, MQL5 is the honest alternative.
Breakout Alerts vs indicator toolkits (LuxAlgo and similar)
Indicator toolkits draw signals, order blocks and patterns on your TradingView chart, and leave the trade to you. LuxAlgo is the best-known and is refreshingly clear that it has no signal track record, because it is charting software and cannot see its customers' accounts. Its pricing page shows no dollar figure, only that annual billing runs 40 to 50% below monthly.
Some smaller toolkit vendors do advertise win rates. Treat identical percentages across every product, timeframe and backtest as the marketing number it is. Our alerts are complete trades with a recorded outcome, which an indicator by definition cannot offer. Their advantage is breadth: anything TradingView charts, they can decorate.
Breakout Alerts vs free Telegram channels
There are thousands. The usual pattern: signals without stops, losers deleted, and a broker link that pays the channel when you deposit. Some are run by good traders; you cannot tell which from the outside.
Our free tier is one instrument, one strategy and one timeframe, with the full ledger open to you. It is deliberately small. What it gives you that a channel cannot is the ability to read every losing trade we have ever published before you decide whether to pay for more.
Where we lose
- No Telegram. Web and email only. If your trading happens in Telegram, Learn2Trade or Forex Early Warning fits better.
- Nothing trades for you yet. MQL5 Signals does, with verification. Ours is in testing and ships when its record earns it.
- No crypto. FX Leaders and Learn2Trade cover it. We stopped at 15 markets on purpose.
- No people. No analysts, no live room, no chat. HowToTrade is built on those.
- Fewer signals. Around 4 a day across all 15 markets, measured over the last 90 days. Narrow it to one pair on one timeframe, as the free tier does, and you are waiting closer to a week between alerts. If you want fifteen a day on one channel, we are not it.
- A win rate that looks bad. About a third. It is the true number, and the book is ahead, but it will never look good on a banner.
14 days of everything.
Free, no card.
Take our alerts alongside whichever service you are comparing us to, and score both. Ours will be on the public ledger either way.
- 15 markets
- Every strategy we are running
- Every result published
- No card
Comparison questions, answered
What is the best forex signal service?
The one whose losing trades you can read before you pay. Most services publish winners and claims; very few publish a trade-by-trade record that includes the losers and is open to non-subscribers. Breakout Alerts does. MQL5 Signals does it differently and arguably better, by pulling each provider's statistics straight from the live account being monitored. Judge the rest on what they let you see.
Is Breakout Alerts better than HowToTrade or Learn2Trade?
Different products. HowToTrade sells live analyst rooms and education for $29 a month. Learn2Trade sends Telegram signals and claims a 76% success rate. Breakout Alerts sends rule-based alerts with a defined entry, stop and target, wins about a third of the time, and publishes every result. If you want a community, pick HowToTrade. If you want a record you can audit, pick us.
Why is your win rate so low compared to services claiming 76% or 85%?
Because ours is measured and theirs is advertised. Our alerts risk one unit to make several, so a third of them winning still leaves the book ahead. A high advertised win rate usually means small targets and big stops, or losers left off the page. Ask any service for the average R per trade and the losing trades. If they cannot show both, the win rate is a marketing number.
Does Breakout Alerts trade for me like MQL5 Signals?
Not today. You receive the alert and decide. Automated execution is in testing on our own accounts and it ships when its record earns it. MQL5 Signals copies another trader into your MetaTrader account automatically, and its per-provider statistics come straight from the live account being monitored, which is real proof. The trade-off is that you are trusting a stranger with your account and their strategy can change without notice.
Is Breakout Alerts an indicator like LuxAlgo?
No. Indicator toolkits draw signals on your chart and leave the trade to you, and LuxAlgo states plainly that it has no signal track record because it is charting software. Breakout Alerts is a service: the alert is a complete trade, and the outcome is recorded and published.
What does Breakout Alerts not do?
No Telegram channel, no SMS, no crypto, no live trading room, no analysts, no chat, and no automated trading yet. It is alerts on 15 markets, a public ledger, and free tools. If you need any of the missing pieces, one of the services above is a better fit.
Are your results net of spread and slippage?
R is measured from the alert's entry price to its exit price against the initial stop, so it is an alert-tracking result, not a broker statement. Since September 2026 an alert whose stop sits closer than twice the typical spread does not go out at all, because a stop that tight is inside the cost of trading it. We did not apply that rule backwards, so 57 older alerts in the book still have stops that tight, and they are worth flagging because the maths flatters them. Fifty-three of the 57 lost. The standout was a Dow trade that scored +122R off a stop four and a half points wide against a three-point spread, which is a return no real account would ever have seen. Take all 57 out and the book is +392.6R across 2,350 alerts at a 35.2% win rate, and that is the number we would rather be judged on. Your fills will differ from the alert prices anyway, usually by the spread, so treat the ledger as the record of the alerts rather than a promise about your account.
Where do these competitor facts come from?
Each competitor's own website, read on September 19, 2026. Where a site does not show a price or a track record, the table says so rather than guessing. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
Trading carries a real risk of loss. Everything on this page is educational, not financial advice, and past results never guarantee future ones.
Keep reading
- Breakout trading statistics — the live aggregates behind every claim on this page.
- Calibration log — every change to how we grade and deliver signals, dated.
- Forex trading alerts — what an alert is and how ours work.
- About — who runs this and the publishing rules.
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