How we track results

Where the numbers come from

When a strategy signals a trade, we record it at that moment, at the signal's price. The record is the strategy's own signals. It is not a backtest, and it is not the fills of the people who run it.

Every trade is counted at 1 contract, before fees and slippage. Real fills can differ.

One market, chosen once

Some strategies trade more than one market. The record follows one of them: the market the strategy has traded most, picked once and never switched. A strategy can't move its record to whichever market did best.

A creator can name the market a strategy is meant for. From that day on, the record counts that market. Nothing from before is added back in.

What we leave out

Only rows that can't be real trades. Nothing else is removed.

• Trades filled in after the fact, rather than signalled live.
• A fixed stop-loss that closed in profit. A stop-loss can't do that, so the row is a mismatch, not a trade. Trailing stops can close in profit, and those count.
• Holds that are impossible: an exit before the entry, or a trade held longer than 72 hours.
• Rows with no entry, exit or result to count.

Losses stay

Losing trades stay on the record. So do losing weeks. A strategy that is down overall keeps its record on the marketplace, for anyone to read.

What the record shows

• Weeks up: how many weeks ended with a gain, out of every week since the record started. A week with no trades still counts, and it is not up.
• Net: the total result since the record started, at 1 contract.
• Worst stretch: the deepest fall from a high point to a low point along the way.
• The curve: the running total, trade by trade.

How strategies are ranked

"Steadiest" ranks strategies by the share of their weeks that ended up, then by the smallest worst stretch. Not by one big win.

To be ranked, a strategy needs at least 8 weeks and 20 trades on its record, and to be up overall. Until then it is shown as "Building a record". Strategies that are down overall are never ranked.

When a record starts over

A strategy's record starts over when its creator publishes a new version, or resets a strategy that runs from their alerts. Either way, the date the record started is on the card.

Paper and live

The record doesn't change with how you run a strategy. On paper, your trades are simulated at real market prices and no money is at risk. Live, the orders go to a futures account in your name, and your fills can differ from the record.