WE BUILT THIS
TO FIGHT BACK
CryptoTradeSignals was built by traders who got trapped — repeatedly. Fake breakouts, stop-loss hunts, manufactured hype cycles. We lost money the same way millions of retail traders do every day. So we built the tool that would have saved us.
Our story
The Trap Score started as a Saturday afternoon spreadsheet. After a particularly expensive fake breakout, we sat down to ask: was there any way to have known? What signals had been visible in the 24 hours before the trap candle printed?
Funding rate had been in the top 5th percentile. Open interest had hit a 90-day high. A dense long-liquidation cluster sat 8% below price. A bearish RSI divergence had formed on the daily. Every signal was there. None of them individually was decisive. Combined, they were.
That insight became the Trap Score. The spreadsheet became a product. The product became this site.
What we stand for
Data over opinion
Every signal is generated algorithmically from live market data. We don't take payment to promote coins. We don't run a paid 'trade group.' We don't shill bags. The score is the score.
Manipulation is the default
Most retail crypto education ignores the fact that institutional manipulation is constant and unprosecuted on offshore venues. We name it, measure it, and filter for it.
Public track record
Every signal we publish is timestamped and logged on the /results page — wins, losses, and skipped trades. You can audit our accuracy yourself.
No custody, no funds
We never hold user funds, API keys, or exchange credentials. We don't ask for KYC. You execute trades on your own venue. We see your email and nothing else.
How the Trap Score is built
Every signal on this platform goes through the same five-step pipeline. No proprietary black-box. The math is documented, the inputs are public, the outputs are logged.
- 01Pull live data
Spot prices and 24-hour volume from CoinGecko. Perpetual futures open interest and funding rates from Binance, Bybit, and OKX. Order-book depth snapshots for spoofing detection. All refreshed every 20–30 seconds.
- 02Compute technicals
RSI (14-period), EMA stack (9, 21, 50, 200), MACD (12-26-9), Bollinger Bands (20, 2σ), ATR (14). Same calculations every TradingView chart uses — no proprietary indicators that hide what we are measuring.
- 03Compute Trap Score
Five inputs combined: funding rate z-score, open interest divergence, liquidation cluster proximity, volume-to-price anomaly, candle wick-to-body ratio. Each normalized 0–10, weighted by historical predictive power, summed into a single composite score.
- 04Generate the signal
A coin gets BUY, SELL, NEUTRAL, or STAY AWAY based on the combination of technical state and Trap Score. STAY AWAY (Trap Score > 7) overrides any directional signal — even a textbook BUY setup is flagged as dangerous when manipulation is detectable.
- 05Publish and log
Every signal published goes to the /results page with a timestamp hash so the record is auditable. We do not retroactively edit signals. We do not hide losing trades. The full record is the only honest claim.
Who builds this
Three desks contribute to every signal we publish. Authorship is shared — no single named guru, no "trading messiah" branding. Output is what matters.
In-house team monitoring 250+ pairs across Binance, Bybit, OKX, Hyperliquid. Background in equities market-microstructure, applied to crypto. Every claim in our content is sourced from live exchange data.
The team behind Trap Score. We document wash trading, spoofing, stop-hunt patterns, and engineered breakouts in real time. The score you see on the scanner is what this desk has trained the system on.
Daily commentary on perpetual funding, open interest, and liquidation cascades. Watches the order book so users can spend less time staring at charts.
Frequently asked questions
Is CryptoTradeSignals free?
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Where does your data come from?
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How is this different from TradingView or Coinglass?
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Support, partnerships, press, research collaboration — use the form below. For platform health see the status page. For media coverage, the press kit.