The Tradeslide Score is a 0-100 independent assessment of the investability of a trading strategy

1. TS Score
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2. INDEX
1. WHAT IS IT?
2. WHAT’S THE POINT?
3. WHAT DRIVES IT?
4. QUESTIONS?
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3. TS Score – What is it?
Our independent assessment of risk-adjusted profit potential for a strategy
How investable, from 0 (Flop) to 100 (Top), do we think a strategy is?
1 Would we recommend a given strategy to any investor?
2 Which of any two strategies is more investable?
3 A diagnostic: where to focus to improve invest-ability?
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4. TS Score – What it isn’t!
The TS Score is a very powerful tool
But even the best tools should be handled knowledgeably
1 No substitute for good judgement and due diligence – NOTHING is
2 100% polished: full accuracy will require thousands of strategies rated
3 The Holy grail: not everyone will agree with our assessment, and some
may well be right
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5. INDEX
1. WHAT IS IT?
2. WHAT’S THE POINT?
3. WHAT DRIVES IT?
4. QUESTIONS?
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6. Weeding out lucky punters…
Both traders below were profitable
One of them was lucky… the other is SKILLED!
• 2 possible sources of past performance:
• Skill – will work going forward
• Luck – won’t last indefinitely
• In addition to WHAT performance was
achieved, the TS Score assesses HOW
performance was obtained
• The purpose is to rule out LUCK as a
source of past performance: if a profitable
strategy wasn’t LUCKY, it’s investable!
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7. … to solve your credibility gap!
What’s the point of a very good TS score?
If you can only use it at Tradeslide?
• We agree – there’s no point!!
• That’s why we encourage you to take it
wherever it helps you
• Twitter – signal your trading skill to
potential followers and filter your
friends by their TS Score
• Linkedin – working on it!
• Trader forums – enrich your alias
with your TS Score
• Install the Twitter extension HERE
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8. INDEX
1. WHAT IS IT?
2. WHAT’S THE POINT?
3. WHAT DRIVES IT?
4. QUESTIONS?
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9. What drives the TS Score?
The TS Score is a measure of skill
It summarizes progress on all elements of the TS Challenge!
• TS Score reflects progress on Challenge:
• Level of individual badges
• Homogeneity across ALL badges
• TS score penalized by level of
WORST badge)
• And remember: performance by itself won’t
do much for your TS Score unless you’ve
ticked all the other boxes
Lack of Experience penalizes TS Score for this • After all, a strategy that loses consistently is
strategy (yellow is the weakest colour at TS)
a very powerful indicator!!
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10. TS Score – Driven by the TS Challenge!
Rationale
• The more experience, the higher the statistical confidence to rule out luck
Ex
• The more stable the risk, the more investable the strategy
Rs
Lc • The more consistent the leverage, the more investable the strategy
La • The lower the loss aversion, the more investable the strategy
Es • The more consistent the exits, the better proof that the strategy is working
Pf • If you’ve achieved performance by relying only on skill, you deserve investor capital!
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11. TS Score – Driven by the TS Challenge!
Impact Rationale
• We’ll improve existing badges and • Our goal is to improve the score forever 
New Badges introduce new ones as we go along – stay
tuned
•Not all badges are relevant to all strategy • Exit strategy doesn’t apply for strategies using
types hedge trades, etc.
Type of strategy
•The bigger the dispersion across levels in • The more polished the strategy, the higher the
Relative level of
different relevant badges, the lower the confidence of the investor
badges
score
• The more strategies reported by a bigger • The TS Score contains a “learning” algorithm
Number of
trader community to the Challenge, the that improves the more strategies report to it
strategies
higher the accuracy of the TS Score
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12. INDEX
1. WHAT IS IT?
2. WHAT’S THE POINT?
3. WHAT DRIVES IT?
4. QUESTIONS?
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13. Questions?
Trading is hard – no wonder there are unanswered questions!
(Why not, together, build a Knowledge Base that answers them all?)
• The Knowledge Base contains TS Mentors’
answers to all your questions!
• Mentors are Traders like you who
enjoy helping out, and are voted
very good at it, AND
• Trading educators hand-picked for
quality and broker independence,
who pitch their materials
• Want to contribute? Great!
• Post an article / Post
• Ask or answer questions
• Rate fellow traders’ contributions
• We’ll treat top contributors like shareholders!
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14. Can you do better?
• This article is a “stub” (an unfinished entry that MUST be improved)
• We need your questions & feedback to improve it!
• Feel free to post your questions to the TS Knowledge Base
• Have suggestions?
• theowl@tradeslide.com can’t wait to hear them
• We’d love to credit you for improving our content
• Contributing to the Q&A sections will boost your mentor score if others like what you post
(even questions do!) – helping out will reflect on your community standing, which means
• More traders will visit the URL on your profile
• When they visit, they’ll request your mentoring!
• If they do it enough, we’ll share revenues and offer invitations to you
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