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Discovering Channels
Picking the right signal providers is the most important decision you'll make in TTMT. The Channel Library lets you browse every channel, filter by what they trade and how they've performed, and read a real track record before you enable one. Every number you see is aggregated across the whole TTMT community, never tied to any individual trader.
Where to find Explore
When you're signed in, open Explore at /dashboard/channels/explore. You can also reach it from the "Browse the Channel Library" link in the Channel Hub. The public version lives at telegramtometatrader.com/explore for people who haven't signed up yet.
The in-dashboard Explore page can be turned off by the platform. When it's hidden, the sidebar entry doesn't appear and you're sent back to the Channel Hub. If you don't see Explore, that's why.
Reading a channel card
Each card in the library shows everything you need to size up a channel at a glance:
- Name, avatar, and badges. A channel can carry Verified (TTMT confirmed the channel and tuned its signal reading) and Recommended (an editorial pick based on strong community performance). A channel can hold both, one, or neither.
- An access pill — Free (a public channel), Premium (a paid private group), or Affiliate (joined through an affiliate link). This tells you what it costs to get in before you click through.
- Four performance stats — Win Rate, Max Drawdown (the largest drop from a peak, as a percentage), Profit Factor (gross profit divided by gross loss), and Traders in Profit (90d).
- A track-record badge and a "Limited data" note when a channel is too new for its numbers to be reliable.
Cards show relative performance, not a dollar profit figure. A channel's win rate and profit factor describe how its signals have played out across the community; your own results depend on your settings, your account, and how you size each trade.
Win rate alone hides losers
A channel with a 70% win rate looks great until you check its profit factor. If that reads 0.9, it's banking small wins and taking big losses — overall it loses money. The two numbers side by side expose that; a single win-rate stat wouldn't.
Performance modes: Combined, Live, Demo
A mode toggle at the top of the grid reframes every number by account type:
- Combined counts all accounts, each trader once.
- Live counts only live and prop-firm accounts — real money on the line.
- Demo counts only demo accounts.
The mode you pick carries through to the channel's detail page, so you can compare like with like.
Check Live mode before you commit
A channel can look strong in Demo and weak in Live. Switch the toggle to Live to see how it performs when people are risking real money — that's the number that matters before you enable it.
For example, a channel might show 12 of 14 traders in profit on Demo but only 4 of 9 on Live. Flipping the toggle to Live reveals that gap before you risk a cent.
Traders in Profit, and "Building track record"
Traders in Profit (90d) answers a simple question: of the traders who used this channel over the last 90 days, how many came out net positive? Each trader is counted once, no matter how many trades they placed, so a single heavy trader can't skew the figure.
If fewer than three traders have a track record in the selected mode, the number is hidden and the card reads "Building track record." This is privacy protection — TTMT never shows a figure that could single out one trader. It does not fall back to lifetime numbers; "Building track record" means there isn't enough recent activity in that mode to show a count, full stop.
"Building track record" means too few traders
The Traders-in-Profit count stays hidden until at least three traders have a recent track record in the mode you're viewing. A brand-new channel with two demo traders shows "Building track record" instead of a misleading 100%.
Filtering and sorting
The filter bar narrows the grid down to what you care about:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sort | Best Win Rate (default), Best Profit Factor, Highest Trader Win Rate, Most Active, Most Popular, or Newest Added. |
| Instrument | All, Forex Majors, Gold & Commodities, Indices, or Crypto. |
| Frequency | Any Frequency, High (10+/week), Medium (5-9/week), or Low (1-4/week). |
| Min Traders | Any (default), or a minimum count to surface channels with a real sample size. |
| Has live data | Show only channels that have real-money results. |
| Search | Find a channel by name. |
Channels with hidden data sort to the bottom of the grid, so the ones with a proven track record surface first.
To cut through the hype, set a Min Traders floor and turn on Has live data. That hides brand-new channels and demo-only providers, leaving you the ones with a real-money history behind them.
The channel detail page
Click any card to open its detail page at /dashboard/channels/explore/[slug]. It leads with a three-stat hero — Traders in Profit (90d), Win Rate (per trade), and Profit Factor — plus a row of comparator chips showing Combined, Live, and Demo side by side.
Below that are the full aggregate metrics with plain-language explanations: Win Rate, Profit Factor, average risk-to-reward, Max Drawdown, signal frequency, and profitable months, alongside performance charts. The Max Drawdown here is shown as an absolute figure because it's a community aggregate, not your personal drawdown.
If you're signed in and have already traded the channel, a "your 90 days on this channel" block shows your own results so you can compare them against the community.
Enabling from Explore
From a detail page, signed-in users enable a channel straight into their Channel Hub — the access pill tells you whether it's free, paid, or affiliate-gated first. Visitors who aren't signed in see a sign-up prompt instead.
Telegram membership required
To receive a channel's signals you must also be a member of it on Telegram. TTMT reads the channel's messages through your connected Telegram account — if you're not in the channel there, no signals arrive.
Past performance isn't a promise
Community numbers describe what has already happened, and every trader's results depend on their own settings. Treat strong stats as a reason to investigate, not a guarantee. Start any new channel on a demo account before committing real money.
Related pages
- Channel Library — badges, signal patterns, and how channels get listed
- Following Channels — enable a channel into your Hub
- Channel Settings — configure it after enabling
- Performance Tracking — track your own per-channel results

