This is a mean reversion trade that I placed on 8/8/25 on my iphone and I got filled. Let me know if you have any interesting ideas on how to determine when a market is consolidating like this that could be back tested and coded!

Hey @Kevin Gong . Just doing some strategy building right now. I know before you mentioned you like the noise test to be right around the mid-point for a "PASS" in your book. What does a noise test like this tell you? Is it really bad?

Currently in progress of building a portfolio analysis Claude artifact that anyone can use that repurposes my complex python portfolio analysis script from raw Tradestation10 tradelists. Claude pro is cracked, would highly recommend over Grok, ChatGPT, for this type of coding.

Hey @Kevin Gong! Just some questions regarding Build Alpha, how you rank your strategies, and if you had a checklist, how it would go! This is what I mean by checklist in my head, kind of some sort of scoring metrics from "Most Important" to "Least Important". 📊 CORE SCORING (0–100) — unchanged backbone 1) P&L / Drawdown Ratio — 25 <5 → 0 | 5–9.9 → 10 | 10–14.9 → 20 | ≥15 → 25 2) Average Trade (Net P&L ÷ Trades) — 15 <$50 → 0 | $50–99 → 8 | $100–149 → 12 | ≥$150 → 15 3) Trade Count — 10 <400 → 0 | 400–665 → 5 | ≥666 → 10 4) Monte Carlo Positioning — 20 Top quadrant (blue > most sims) → 0 Mid (~50th pct) → 10 Lower 50% → 20 5) Liquidity Test — 15 Liquidity lines < blue → 0 | Mixed → 7 | All > blue → 15 6) Noise Test — 10 Any flat/negative → 0 | All +, blue far above → 5 | All +, blue modestly inside cluster → 10 7) Variance Test — 5 Wide w/ negatives → 0 | Wide mostly + → 3 | Tight, no negatives → 5 8) Other Factors — 0 (Win %, Meta Systems, Slippage excluded from core; discuss qualitatively) ➕ BONUS CONFIRMATION (+0–10) — show separately - Sharpe ≥1.5 → +3 | 1.2–1.49 → +2 | 1.0–1.19 → +1 - Profit Factor ≥2.0 → +3 | 1.7–1.99 → +2 | 1.5–1.69 → +1 - E-Ratio ≥1.3 → +2 | 1.1–1.29 → +1 - Equity Curve Consistency (smooth slope, distributed profits) → +2 (minor lumpiness +1) Report core /100 and bonus /10 separately. Max total = 110. 🎯 SCORE INTERPRETATION (CORE ONLY) 90–100 Hedge Fund Ready | 75–89 Strong Candidate | 60–74 Decent but Risky | <60 Not Deployable

Been really trying to fine tune my Algo Building skills these last 2 weeks. Here is something I cooked up today, I think its pretty good. Would rate it about 90/100 (100 being perfect). Multiple pictures here over analysis, just scroll to the right to check it out! @Kevin Gong