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How Alert Performance Is Measured

What the performance record counts, how it is calculated, what it is measured against, and the reasons any published record has to be read with the methodology beside it.

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What Is in This Guide

  • The record covers published alerts, including the ones that did not work.
  • Measurement rules have to be fixed in advance to mean anything.
  • A return measured against zero says very little; the comparison is the information.
  • An annual rate is scaled down to the days a position was held, never the other way round.
  • A published record is not an account's return, because sizing is the member's.
  • Past results never indicate future results.
  • Selective inclusion is the largest source of misleading records anywhere.

14 sections

  1. 1The disclaimer is load-bearing
  2. 2Measured against what
  3. 3Comparing a short trade with an annual target
  4. 4Why a portfolio figure needs stated rules
  5. 5Every alert in dollars, open ones included
  6. 6Peak capture, and grading an exit
  7. 7Slicing the record, and taking it with you
  8. 8Why the rules have to be fixed first
  9. 9The questions any record must answer
  10. 10Why a record is not a return
  11. 11Your own trades beside the record
  12. 12Survivorship, and how a record avoids it
  13. 13Case studies: the record read one alert at a time
  14. 14The questions any record has to answer
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