Sanddock Signal States: How New, Slide, and Commit Keep Our Track Record Honest

The three Sanddock signal states (New, Slide, and Commit) define the technical lifecycle of every trade alert generated by our engine. A signal starts as "New" when a swing reversal setup is first identified, "Slides" to update the entry price if the market moves further in that direction, and becomes "Commit" once the candle closes and the swing is locked - preventing signal deletion and ensuring an honest, uneditable track record.

What are Sanddock signal states?

Sanddock signal states are the technical phases that represent the real-time status of a price swing reversal in our processing pipeline. Traditional crypto signal groups send static alerts that immediately become obsolete if the price continues to drop after a Buy signal is issued. By using a dynamic state machine, Sanddock tracks the evolution of a price swing from its initial detection to its final confirmation, ensuring that the user is always informed of the optimal entry price without receiving repetitive alert messages.

Understanding these states is key to executing trades effectively and interpreting our public track record.

How does the "New" signal state work?

The "New" state represents the initial trigger of our Heikin Ashi swing detection engine, marking the exact moment a coin's current low (for Buys) or high (for Sells) becomes the extreme point within the lookback window. When a candle achieves this extreme value, the state machine registers a "New" event, fetches the live ticker price, calculates the initial stop-loss and take-profit levels, and fires the first alert to the dashboard and Telegram.

This state is a critical early warning. It tells traders that a potential reversal is underway, allowing them to prepare their order placement on their chosen exchange. However, because the active candle is still open, the signal remains flexible and is not yet written permanently to the public track record database.

Why does the "Slide" state prevent Telegram alert spam?

The "Slide" state is triggered when a coin continues to make new lows (during a Buy setup) or new highs (during a Sell setup) before the current candle closes, causing the signal engine to update the existing alert to a more favorable entry price. In a standard Telegram signal channel, this price extension would result in a series of new, confusing messages cluttering your feed. Sanddock solves this by updating the original Telegram message and dashboard card in-place using the platform's edit functionality.

This means you see a single, clean message where the entry price dynamically improves as the trend exhausts itself. By "sliding" the entry price to the absolute extreme of the move, the engine prevents you from front-running a falling knife and ensures your risk-to-reward ratio is optimized.

What is the "Commit" state and why is it final?

The "Commit" state occurs when the active Heikin Ashi candle closes and a new candle begins, which locks the swing high or swing low in place and makes the signal parameters permanent. Once a signal is committed, the entry price, stop-loss, and take-profit values cannot be altered, and the trade is officially recorded in our database to track its final profit or loss (PnL).

This transition represents the boundary between analysis and tracking. A committed signal cannot be deleted, edited, or hidden, which is the architectural foundation of our public verification system. Whether the trade ultimately hits its take-profit target or is stopped out for a loss, the result remains on the public ledger forever.

How do signal states guarantee track record honesty?

Sanddock's signal states guarantee track record honesty by removing human discretion and making it technically impossible to delete or alter a trade alert once it reaches the "Commit" state. Many signal providers curate their historical records by deleting losing trades and highlighting only their wins, creating an artificially high win rate. Because our background engine automatically writes every "Commit" event directly to a PostgreSQL database linked to our public track record page, every signal's outcome is locked in real time.

This transparency allows traders to verify our historical performance, inspect our drawdowns, and build genuine trust in our methodology.

Frequently asked questions

Can a "New" signal disappear without ever being committed? Yes, but only under specific structural conditions. If a trend reverses so rapidly that the swing setup is invalidated before the candle closes, the state machine will discard the potential signal. This ensures that only verified, high-probability setups make it to the permanent track record.

How do I know if a Telegram alert has slid? The Sanddock Telegram bot will edit the original message in your chat, showing the updated entry price and a "[SLID]" badge next to the coin's symbol. You will not receive a second notification ping, keeping your notifications quiet.

What happens to my stop loss when a signal slides? When a Buy signal slides to a lower entry price, the stop-loss and take-profit levels are automatically recalculated and shifted lower. This preserves the exact risk-to-reward ratio (typically 1:2) defined by your selected risk profile.

Are slid prices reflected in the final track record? Yes. The track record logs the final entry price at the moment of the "Commit" event. This ensures that the tracked PnL matches the optimal entry price that was actually available to traders at the end of the swing.

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