How Track Record works

What Track Record is

Track Record is a public record of what trading alert rooms actually produced. It is built by members of those rooms, using the Alertsify Discord app, on alerts they already have access to.

Nothing here is written by a room about itself, and nothing here is written by Alertsify about a room. The numbers are worked out from the market.

Two separate records sit on the board. One is real money that real people made — broker fills, in the accounts of members who took an alert themselves. The other is what a room’s calls produced at a fixed size, priced off the option chain whether or not anybody traded them. They answer different questions and they are never added together.

How an alert becomes a record

1. 1
   A room posts an alert.

   In their own Discord, to their own members, as they always have.
2. 2
   A member chooses to track it.

   The Alertsify app is installed on that member’s own Discord account, not on the room’s server. It does nothing until they right-click a specific message and pick Track — Discord’s own interaction system, used the way Discord designed it. There is no bot in the server, no webhook, and nothing running on its own.
3. 3
   We record what the contract cost right then.

   The bid, the ask and the mark of that exact option contract, at the time the message was posted. That time is Discord’s own timestamp on the message, not the moment anybody clicked. Tracking something an hour later does not change the price it is recorded at.
4. 4
   We follow it until it is over.

   The contract is re-priced on a fixed clock while it is open, and the highest and lowest it reaches are recorded along the way.
5. 5
   It appears on the room's page.

   Only once the trade is closed.

What people made

Alertsify members connect a broker to copy trades. When one of them takes an alert, the fill is a real fill at a real price, and that is what this record counts. Nothing is modelled and nothing is assumed.

Trades are matched first-in-first-out per contract, and a trade counts once the position closes. Buying more of something already held extends the position rather than starting a second one; selling part of it closes part of it.

• Only finished trades carry a number.
  Money still in a position is capital at risk, never a loss and never a gain.
• An expired contract is finished.
  An option nobody sold before expiry is over, and it is counted as over — leaving it open would report vanished money as still at risk.
• Under three finished trades there is no percentage at all.
  Two data points are not a record, and a page that prints one anyway is inviting the reader to over-read it.
• Cost and Sold are published beside the difference.
  So a reader can check the headline rather than take it on trust.
• These are followers’ trades, never the room’s own.
  A fill is a fact about the person who took the alert. Nothing here is a claim that the room traded it, or traded it that way.

The five-minute ladder

This record does not need anyone to have traded anything. When somebody taps Track this signal on an alert, the contract is priced from the option chain, and then the market price is recorded again at five-minute intervals for the next hour — +5, +10, +15, all the way to +60. Twelve prices, automatically, whether or not a single person ever touched the contract.

That fixed clock is what makes rooms comparable. Every alert has a price at +5 and a price at +30 measured from its own post, so “what does this room’s call look like half an hour in” has one answer per alert and a straight average across a room.

A price we never captured is left as a gap. It is never filled in from a later one — a price from +23 sitting in the +15 slot is invented data, and a ladder with visible holes is the honest version.

Every alert is sized identically, so two rooms are comparable when one calls a $37 contract and another calls a $0.30 one. Because the size is equal, the dollar figure is the average return restated — it carries nothing the percentage does not. It is not what the room made. We do not know what they traded. It is what the alerts would have done at a standard size.

Each alert counts once. A room that happens to call one expensive contract does not get that alert weighted above the rest of its book.

The marking window, and which price

An alert tracked within 5 minutes of being posted is priced from the moment it was posted. Anything tracked later is priced from the moment it was tapped, and counts only in that person’s own list.

Without that rule, somebody could wait for a contract to double and then track it at the original price. The window is the difference between a record and a highlight reel.

The first person to track an alert sets its price, and everyone after inherits it. Otherwise the tenth person to tap a runner would drag the room’s entry up to wherever the trade had already got to — the same hindsight through a different door. That is enforced by the database, not by code that could race.

The delay is shown as a plain fact: “tracked 6 seconds after posting”. It is never graded, scored or thresholded beyond the window itself.

Which price. A tracked position costs what the alert said it cost, and is worth what it would fetch. When an alert names a price, that is the entry — it is the number the room published and the number its readers acted on. When it names none, the entry is the ask, because that is what a buyer pays. Everything after — every checkpoint, and every exit the room calls — is the bid, because that is what a holder receives.

Neither end is the midpoint. The midpoint is the average of the two sides and nobody trades at it, and pricing an entry there marked rooms in above the price they had published — printing losses on calls that had won. A stated price is not taken on trust either: it is used only when the chain we sampled agrees it is plausible, and every mark shows which side its number came from.

The price they said, and the price it was

Most alerts state a price. We show it next to what the contract was actually selling for at that second — the bid and the ask.

We do not score this, grade it, or draw a conclusion from it. One alert where the stated price is outside the market means little; traders often enter before they post. Both numbers are there and you can make up your own mind.

When things are published

This is deliberate, and it is the rule most often mistaken for an omission. Rooms charge for their alerts, and Track Record is not a way around paying for them. A closed trade is a record; an open one is information, and publishing a live entry with its current mark would hand anybody watching this page a free signal feed at the room’s expense. By the time anything is visible here, there is nothing left that could be traded.

How a trade ends

Every room’s page shows how many of its alerts finished each way. If a room posts exits on its winners and stays quiet on its losers, that shows up here as a low close rate, and you can see it.

An ending does not stop the tracking. What the room called and what the contract did are different questions, and the second is not the room’s to end.

What counts toward a room's number

Anything tracked appears in that person’s own tracker with their own numbers. For an alert to count toward a room’s public average it has to clear every one of the gates below, and they exist to stop a room shaping its own record.

• Somebody outside the room tracked it.
  At least 1 person who is not the author, marking it inside the window. The count is not the safeguard — the exclusion is; a room cannot reach this bar on its own taps.
• Nobody tracking it was the person who posted it.
  Matched on the Discord user id, which cannot be changed the way a display name can. A webhook or bot author has no id to match against, so there is nothing to exclude — those alerts need 2 trackers instead of one, because two people cannot both be the poster.
• The contract was stated, not inferred.
  Where the expiry had to be filled in from a default, the call was ours and not theirs, and crediting the room for it would be measuring our own guess.

The 5-minute rule is the important one. If somebody waits to see whether a trade works before tracking it, it is recorded at the price it had already reached, not the price when it was posted. Hindsight buys nothing.

The gates are evaluated when the board is read rather than when the alert was tracked, because the tracker count keeps changing after the fact. An alert that misses a gate still appears in the list of the person who tracked it. It does not move a room’s public numbers.

And a separate rule, on the average rather than the alert. Under 3 finished alerts a room shows its count and no percentage — on each side of the record independently, so a room with one called exit and twenty posted alerts publishes an average for the second and not the first. Two results are not a record, and this is the only place that question belongs: whether an alert is evidence about a room and whether there is enough of it to average are different questions.

What is never published

• Open positions.
  Nothing about a live trade is published — not the entry, not the current mark, not an unrealised return.
• A room’s analysis, commentary, charts, reasoning, or the text of the alert.
  We publish the contract and the prices, not their words. The text is kept so a dispute about a figure can be settled against what the alert actually said, and it is shown to nobody outside Alertsify.
• Which members tracked or executed an alert.
  Counts only, never names.
• Any member’s account size or balance.
  Nor their buying power, their account numbers, or any position they hold that is not one of these alerts.
• Which of a room’s alerts were excluded, and why.
  That list would be a map of exactly what to change to get them counted.
• Alerts from direct messages, on a room’s page.
  They can appear on a trader’s own page but are never attributed to a server.

What this cannot tell you

• It is not the room’s own P&L.
  Their real size, their trims and their scale-outs are unknowable from a Discord message. Nothing here is a claim about what they personally made.
• The people measured are Alertsify members only.
  They are not a random sample of a room’s membership, and they took the alerts they chose to take.
• Fills carry slippage; marks do not.
  A mark is priced off the chain at a moment, and a real order in a thin contract still moves it. It is priced on the side you would actually trade — never the midpoint, which is a number nobody fills at — but it remains a mark, not a fill.
• Nothing here is ranked.
  The default order is most-evidenced-first, which is not the same as best, and the board says so.
• Past results are not a forecast.
  A record says what happened. It does not say what happens next.

Rooms, claiming, and replies

A room appears on Track Record as soon as one of its members tracks an alert. It does not need the owner’s permission, in the same way a business does not need to approve a review.

Claiming a page is free and takes one Discord sign-in. Only the account that owns the Discord server can claim it. Claiming lets a room owner:

• Add a description, links, and socials.
  The page stops being about an unnamed server and starts being about them, with somewhere for a reader to go.
• Post a public reply on any trade.
  A reply is additive. It sits alongside the record and does not alter or suppress it — that is the whole point of it being a reply.
• See how many of their members track and execute their alerts, and what those members made.
  On their alerts only. Never a member’s account size, balance, buying power, or anything they did elsewhere — and a member can see exactly what their room owner sees about them.

Claiming does not let anyone edit, hide, or remove a number. That includes us. The questions owners ask most often are answered at For room owners.

If a number looks wrong

Every published figure drills down to the prices it came from. Tell us which alert, and we will show you the message time, the market prices we recorded at that time, and how the result was calculated. If the calculation was wrong, we correct it. If it was right, it stays.

Report a figure — a form, not an inbox. It goes to a queue that gets answered, and it asks for the alert and the price up front because a report without them cannot be checked against anything.

Requests to remove a closed trade because a room does not like the result are declined.

Records

Every track is timestamped and preserved. We keep the message id, the server, the market snapshot and the outcome. We do not delete records at a room’s request, and if we receive a formal notice about a room, everything relating to that room is preserved from that point.

Copyright notices, and the designated agent they should go to, are at alertsify.com/dmca. The terms behind all of this are Section 27 of the Terms of Service, and what is collected and for how long is Sections 2.5, 4.1 and 5.1 of the Privacy Policy.