Today's leading option splits into three separate subscriptions: the copier, MetaAPI to actually run MT4/5, and a third tool if you want channel analytics. It silently drops signals its parser can't read. Signalrelay is one bill — MT4/5 hosting and channel scoring included — and an honest parser that shows you what it couldn't handle. Channel scores come from broker-confirmed fills, not backtests or claims. Signal channel subscriptions stay yours. It's not ready yet. The waitlist gets the beta when it is.
No spam. No "limited time" nonsense. ~1 email every 4–6 weeks until launch. Reply with feedback anytime — every email goes to me directly.
I'm a software engineer with twelve years of experience. I started using Telegram → MT4 copy services as a retail trader and got progressively more annoyed at the same three problems showing up everywhere. None of them are technically hard. They just don't get fixed because the incumbents have no incentive to fix them.
The subscription stack. Most "Telegram-to-MT4" services don't actually run MT4 themselves — they require a separate MetaAPI subscription to do it. Want channel analytics on top? With the market leader, that's a third subscription. Three services, three bills, three configurations, and two places where your broker credentials live. None of it is technical necessity; it's outsourced complexity and unbundled pricing. Signalrelay runs MT4/5 directly and includes channel scoring — one subscription. Your signal channel subscriptions stay yours, as they should — that's a relationship between you and the channel, and Signalrelay shouldn't be in the middle of it.
The silent parser. When a signal channel posts something the parser doesn't understand — slightly unusual format, emoji where it expects a colon, multiple TPs in an unexpected order — most services just... drop it. You don't see what failed. You don't see what was ambiguous. You just see fewer trades than the channel actually sent. The parser should tell you when it's confused. Signalrelay's does.
The trust black box. Every signal channel claims a 90%+ win rate. Most of those numbers are cherry-picked, cropped to good months, or based on demo accounts. Channel analytics tools do exist — the market leader sells one — but as yet another separate subscription, and built largely on backtested signal history rather than what happened when real money hit real spreads. Signalrelay includes scoring in the base subscription and computes it from broker-confirmed fills: actual executions, actual drawdowns, deleted-trade tracking. Scored on what channels do, not what they say — and not sold back to you as an add-on.
Most "feature lists" on pre-launch pages are wish-lists dressed as facts. Here's what's actually shipped, what I'm building now, and what's on the plan. I'll update this page as things move.
Signalrelay hosts MT4 and MT5 terminals directly. You connect your broker once; we run it 24/7 on isolated infrastructure. No separate MetaAPI subscription, no second monthly bill, no separate vendor relationship to maintain.
Regex-first for known formats, fallback to a small local model for the long tail, dead-letter queue for the rest. When a message can't be parsed cleanly, you see the message, you see why it failed, and you decide what to do. No silent drops.
Every channel scored on observable behaviour: signal volume consistency, win rate measured against actual broker fills (not the channel's own claim), drawdown patterns, signal-deletion frequency. You see the score before you copy.
Aggressive sizing on the channel you trust; conservative on the new one you're testing. Per-channel max exposure, per-channel TP behaviour, per-channel symbol mapping for brokers that name things differently. Your capital, your rules.
Public status page, per-trade execution logs, latency distributions you can see — not a number on a marketing page. When something doesn't execute the way you expected, you have the trace to figure out why.
The parts of the signal parser that aren't a competitive differentiator will likely be released under a permissive license post-beta. The full scope and license are still being thought through — but the intent is to make the signal-extraction logic inspectable for anyone who wants to verify what's happening with their messages.
Weekly progress, technical deep-dives on what's hard about this space, and honest notes when things break. Pick whichever you check most.
Targeting late 2026. I'll give everyone on the waitlist at least two weeks' notice, with detailed setup instructions and what to expect. The beta will start small — probably 15–25 people — to make sure the experience is solid before opening wider.
You get an email when the beta opens, and roughly one update email every 4–6 weeks before then. That's it. No marketing campaigns, no "act now" pressure, no upsells. If you reply, you'll be replying to me directly — every email comes from a real human.
The closed beta will be free in exchange for honest feedback. Public pricing isn't finalised yet — I'd rather price it once I know what real users find useful. Current plan is a single tier (no MetaAPI add-on, no surprise fees) in the $25–50/month range. The waitlist email will have the final pricing two weeks before launch.
Me — Varinder, software engineer with twelve years of experience in distributed systems and trading-adjacent infrastructure. I'm based in Brampton, Ontario. I'm a real person and I show up under my own name; you can find me on X, GitHub, and LinkedIn from the links in the footer.
This isn't an anonymous offshore operation. Most copy-trading services in this space don't tell you who's running them. That's a deliberate signal you should pay attention to when evaluating any tool that's going to hold your broker credentials.
You shouldn't, yet. That's literally why this page is a waitlist instead of a "start free trial" button. Trust takes time to earn and there's no shortcut. What I can do is build openly: ship visible progress, write honestly about what's hard and what breaks, open-source the parts that don't need to be proprietary, and let you decide based on a year of consistent work whether I've earned it.
Follow the build (links above). Read what I write. Talk to early beta users when they exist. Then decide.
The three core differences: (1) bundled pricing — with the market leader, the full stack is three separate subscriptions (the copier, MetaAPI for execution, and a channel-analytics tool); Signalrelay is one bill with MT4/5 hosting and channel scoring included; (2) scoring methodology — their analytics are built on backtested signal history, while Signalrelay scores channels on broker-confirmed fills from real executions; (3) parser transparency — when a signal can't be parsed cleanly, you see what failed instead of just seeing fewer trades.
The incumbents have ~5 years of head start, more features today, and existing customers. What they don't have is structural reason to bundle pricing or surface parser failures, because both would reduce ARPU or expose limitations. The differences below are positioning differences, not feature races.
Email me at hello@signalrelay.io. I read everything; reply rate is high. If you're a Forex trader, a signal channel operator, or someone who's been burned by an existing copy service and has opinions on what should be different — I'd genuinely like to hear from you.
The waitlist gets the beta first, monthly build updates, and the final pricing two weeks before public launch. One field, no commitment.