1. When was each trade written down?
Ask whether a trade enters the history at open or at close. Where results are compiled
afterwards, from a spreadsheet or a channel whose messages can be edited, a complete record
and a selection from one are indistinguishable to you. That is a property of the method
rather than an accusation about the person using it, and it is why the question is worth
asking before the numbers are.
On Triggon a trade is recorded when its Signal fires, and the Signal is
delivered to subscribers in the same moment.
2. Are the losing trades there?
A record without losses is not a record. Count them. A published history with a long
unbroken run of wins and no stop-outs is describing a filter, not a Strategy.
Stop-outs are recorded exactly like trades that reached their targets, and a
Strategy that lost money every month keeps its checkmark, because the losses are real and the
checkmark describes the record rather than rating it.
3. How many trades, over how long?
Thirty trades over three weeks is a sample. It cannot separate skill from a favourable
fortnight, however good it looks. Ask for the trade count and the number of days the record
covers, and treat a short history as unproven rather than as bad.
Both figures are published on every Strategy, and the Triggon Score scales
every component by a credibility factor drawn from them, so a short lucky run cannot outrank a
long consistent one.
4. Is the drawdown published, not just the return?
A return with no drawdown beside it is half a sentence. The question a return cannot answer
is whether you could have stayed in the position through the worst stretch, and if the answer
is no then the return was never available to you.
Maximum drawdown sits next to the return everywhere Triggon prints one, along
with profit factor, win rate and the Sharpe, Sortino and Calmar ratios.
How each one is computed →
5. Can you see every trade, or only a summary?
Summary statistics are derived from something. If you cannot open the underlying list and
read the individual trades with their entries, exits and durations, you are being asked to
trust the arithmetic as well as the data.
Every trade is listed on the Strategy and again in the Provider's journal, with
entry, exit, result, exit reason and duration.
6. Who computed the figures, and from what?
A provider who computes their own statistics from their own notes controls both halves. The
useful arrangement is one where the figures are computed by the platform, from the record it
kept itself, and where two views of the same Strategy cannot disagree.
The Marketplace and the journal read the same recorded trades through the same
statistics engine, so the journal adds arrangement rather than arithmetic. History a Provider
imported from elsewhere is shown as imported and never counts toward the checkmark.
7. What happens to the record when they stop trading?
A record that quietly disappears when performance turns is not a record either. Ask whether
a bad quarter stays visible, and whether the badge on a profile is permanent or has to keep
being earned.
The checkmark is a rolling window over the last 90 days, re-checked every time
it is shown. A Strategy that goes quiet loses it and earns it back when the new window is
covered. Its history stays readable throughout.
What the checkmark means →