How to Follow a Crypto Signal Step by Step (Entries, Stops and Sizing)

A signal gives you a coin, an entry, a stop loss and one or more targets. It does not tell you how to act on them, and that is where a lot of people go wrong. The same signal, taken by two people, can produce very different results because of how each of them executed it.

This is the process to follow, in order. For what each part of a signal means, see how to read a crypto signal.

Step 1: Check the signal still makes sense

By the time you see a signal, price may have moved. Compare the current price with the posted entry.

• Price is at or near the entry: fine to proceed.
• Price has run past the entry toward the target: the trade you would get is a worse one. The stop is now further from your entry and the target closer, so the risk-reward has changed. If it no longer works, skip it. Chasing is how good signals turn into bad trades.
• Price has already hit the stop or the target: the signal is over.

Step 2: Look at the chart yourself

Spend two minutes on the chart. Does the stop sit sensibly beyond a level? Is there a large resistance just above your entry? Are there any scheduled events, such as a token unlock, before the target? You are not second-guessing the caller. You are making sure you understand the trade well enough to manage it.

Step 3: Work out your position size

This step is yours, not the signal's. Decide how much of your account you are willing to lose if the stop hits, usually 1% or less, and calculate the size from the distance between entry and stop. See position sizing.

A common mistake is buying a fixed dollar amount every time. A signal with a wide stop and one with a tight stop should not get the same amount of money.

Step 4: Choose the order type

• Limit order at the entry: you get your price or better, but you might not be filled if price does not come back to it.
• Market order: you are filled immediately, but at whatever price is available, which on thin altcoins can be noticeably worse than the entry.

If the entry is given as a zone (a range), you can build your position in parts within it. On liquid coins a market order is usually fine. On thin ones, a limit order protects you from slippage.

Step 5: Place the stop straight away

Put the stop order in as soon as you are filled. Do not tell yourself you will watch it. If you cannot place a stop on the exchange for that coin, set an alert at the level and be at your screen when it triggers. A stop you plan to place "later" is not a stop.

Step 6: Set your take-profit orders

Signals often give two targets. A common approach is to sell part of your position at the first, move the stop to your entry price, and let the rest run to the second. How much you sell at each is your decision. See how to take profit.

Step 7: Leave it alone

Once the orders are in place, the hard part is doing nothing. Do not move the stop further away because the trade is going against you. Do not cancel the target because price is approaching and you feel greedy. The plan was made when you were calm.

Step 8: Record the trade

Log the entry, the stop, the targets, the size, the exit and what actually happened. Compare your result with the signal's result. If yours is worse, the gap tells you something about your execution. See what to track in a trading journal.

Practise the process first

If this is your first time following signals, run the whole routine on paper before real money. The open the terminal, free has a $100,000 practice account on live prices where you can place the entry, the stop and the targets exactly as above.

Each call in our room is posted with its entry, stop and targets before the move, so every step above has the information it needs. 13 signals closed between 30 Jul 2026 and 21 Sep 2026 to see how they turned out.