How PesaMind works
The rules that make a record here mean something, and the things we chose not to build.
How a record is made honest · five rules, no exceptions
- The entry is captured, not typed
- You give a direction, a stop and a target. PesaMind reads the entry price off the market itself at the moment you post, so nobody backdates a fill.
- A call can never be edited
- Not the levels, not the words. Every call is hash-chained to the one before it, so changing an old call breaks every call after it — visibly, on a page anyone can open.
- The market scores it, not you
- The call settles against the real price and is scored in R — reward against the risk you declared — so leverage cannot inflate a record.
- Losses are published at full size
- A settled loss gets the same band, the same type size and the same place on the tape as a win. A feed carrying only good news is an advertisement.
- Reading is free
- Every profile, every call, every instrument page is public. An account is only for posting, replying, following and reviewing.
Posts, calls and polls
A post is text, optionally with an image and any market you tag with a cashtag like $EURUSD. Tagging routes it to that market’s page, which is how conversation finds the people who care about it.
A call is a forecast: a market, a direction, a stop, a target and a deadline. You never type the entry — PesaMind reads it off the market as the call is written, and refuses the call outright if no price can be fetched. The composer rejects a long whose target sits below its stop, because that call could never be scored honestly.
A poll runs for anywhere from six hours to a week. Results stay hidden until you vote, so early votes do not anchor later ones.
How calls resolve
A call ends the moment price reaches either level. Touch your target and it is a win, at your target — touch your stop first and it is a loss, at your stop. Both were declared in advance, so reaching one is a verdict.
The fill is always the level, never the spike that reached it. A target at 90,000 in a candle that wicked to 90,500 fills at 90,000, because that is where your order sat. Recording the spike would flatter every record here.
When both levels fall inside the same minute, the raw ticks for that minute decide which came first — and you can re-fetch the same window and check. If even the ticks cannot separate them, it is scored as a stop-out. We cannot know the path price took, and assuming the favourable side is how track records get quietly flattering.
Running out of time is not a loss. A call that expires between its levels is scored on the R it actually reached: five pips short of target is most of the plan earned, and it is shown that way. Only the stop is a defeat.
You may also close a call early, at the price the market shows when you do. You choose the moment; you never choose the number — the price is captured and hashed exactly as the entry was. Closing at a bad one records a bad R, and nothing can be edited or deleted afterwards.
Why R, not percent
Outcomes are scored as R: how much was made or lost relative to the distance between entry and stop. Risking one to make two is +2R whether the position was ten dollars or ten thousand.
Percent return would rank whoever used the most leverage. R cannot be inflated by position size, which is why prop desks evaluate traders on it and why we do too.
Hit rate alone means nothing without R attached. Someone right 30% of the time at +4R is far ahead of someone right 80% of the time at +0.2R.
Calls cannot be edited
Not the levels, not the prose, not by anyone. The API has no edit path for a call, and the database account the app runs under is not permitted to update those records at all.
Each call is hash-chained to the one before it, so altering an old call would break every call made after it. The /verify page walks that chain live and publishes the exact bytes that were hashed, so you can recompute it yourself rather than take our word for it.
This is the single rule that makes the rest of the record worth reading.
Charts are not the record
Every market page carries a live chart, so you can watch an instrument while you read what people are saying about it. Your browser streams it from Deriv directly — it never passes through us.
It decides nothing. A call is anchored to a price this platform captured and hashed when the call was written, and settled the same way at its deadline. If a chart and the record ever disagree, the record is what stands, and you can recompute it yourself on the /verify page.
Confirming your email
Reading everything here needs no account at all. Posting, replying, following and reviewing need a confirmed email address.
Every call is a permanent public record attached to a person, and reviews name individuals. An address nobody has confirmed is an account nobody can be held to. Confirming takes one click on a link that expires in a day.
Watching a call
Any running call that is not yours has a Watch button. Turn it on and you are told once, when it ends — whether it reached its target, was stopped out, ran out of time, or the author closed it early.
It is one notification per call, and the watch clears itself when the call resolves. Nobody is told that you are watching, including the author.
Notifications appear on the site, and can also reach you by email or Telegram — whichever you connect in Settings, and none if you would rather have neither.
Top traders and what is traded
The front page and Explore show the traders whose records are worth reading. They are ranked by average R — expectancy — with the number of settled calls beside it, and only once a trader has ten settled calls. Below that an average cannot separate skill from luck, so newer records are shown after the ranked ones, marked unranked, and ordered by how many calls they rest on rather than by how lucky they were.
A trader’s best instrument is the one they score highest on in R, and only among instruments with at least three settled calls — one good call is not a speciality. The sample travels with it.
Most traded counts calls opened in the last thirty days, never cashtags mentioned, and shows how many distinct traders are behind them. Thirty calls from one account is one person’s view, not a crowd.
Reviews
Reviews are written on the trader’s own profile, under the Reviews tab. Anyone can leave one review per trader — one, enforced by the database, so no amount of effort turns into a pile of ratings.
Reviews are always attributed, never anonymous, and the trader being reviewed always gets a reply that renders alongside it.
Accounts must be fourteen days old to write one, so a throwaway account costs more than a signup.
A review is an opinion about someone’s contributions here. It is not a verified performance record, and it should not be read as one.
What we deliberately do not do
We do not execute trades. There is no order path in this product at all, which is what keeps PesaMind a publisher rather than a regulated firm.
We do not sell signals, and we do not let anyone else sell them here. That model is the one regulators across every market warn about, and it is incompatible with a community built on trust.
We do not rank traders by returns, profit or win rate. Regulators have found that returns leaderboards push people toward riskier trades and worse outcomes, and the harm lands hardest on the least experienced. The boards here rank by R, which leverage cannot inflate, and never on fewer than ten settled calls.
We do not ask for money amounts. Risk is expressed as a percentage of your account, which keeps the feed about method instead of flexing.
What PesaMind is not
- Not a broker. We hold no money and place no trades.
- Not a signal service. Nobody sells calls here, and there is no paid VIP tier.
- Not copy trading. Nothing executes in your account automatically, ever.
- Not financial advice. Everything posted is one trader's opinion.
Risk warning
Trading carries substantial risk, and the majority of retail accounts lose money. Nothing on PesaMind is financial advice or a recommendation. Everything posted is one trader's opinion, published to the whole community rather than tailored to you. PesaMind is not a broker, not an investment adviser, and holds no client funds.