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TS Challenge

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TS Challenge – Welcome!

• Would you want to trade for a living? You’re probably not there for 2 reasons:

• Capital: Great returns on little capital are little returns :-(

• Credibility: without it, capital won’t invest in your skill!

• To overcome this Chicken Egg problem, we invite you to compete with fellow traders at

• Making money, AND

• Meeting skill filters (aka badges): TS Badges sort skilled traders from lucky

gamblers, and prove skills (risk management, discipline) that investors demand

• Our skill filters matter: we have reviewed thousands of track-records for traders and

identified that traders excelling at these filters deliver consistent returns over time

• This means: if you prove to investors that you master these core skills, you will have

PROVE that your trading is consistent – which will hopefully make you credible with

investors

• Welcome to the Challenge – and see you at the TOP!

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INDEX

1. UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE

2. HOW TO IMPROVE?

3. QUESTIONS?

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TS Challenge – TS Skill Elements*

Rationale

Ex• Experience: the longer the track-record, the less chance that performance was

achieved through luck

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• Risk stability: the more stable the risk, the less scope for investor surprises, the

more investable the strategy

Lc • Leverage consistency: consistent leverage is a proof of sound risk management

La • Loss aversion: it takes skill and discipline to overcome loss aversion

Es • Exit strategy: Good trades exits are conclusive proof that a strategy works

Pf• Performance: It’s impossible to win, display skills AND be lucky at the same

time!Thus: if you generate profits AND demonstrate skill, you deserve investor capital!

*New Elements will be introduced on an ongoing basis

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TS Challenge – Understanding your Badges (1)

We scan your track-record for trading skill

And reward any evidence with colored Badges

• The color of each TS Element / badge describes skill in a

progression of 3 colors:

• Yellow = lowest skill

• Magenta = highest skill

• Badges have a clock-wise intra-level % progress indicator

(about 75% progress within Magenta in this example)

• The color hierarchy is common to all Badges

2/3 of Ex Magenta completed!

Ex Score: 8.6 / 10Evolution of your Ex Score

Your relative situation compared to the members of the community

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TS Challenge – Understanding your Badges (2)

Want to have a brief description of where you are at?

Use the help feature!

• A detailed message of your current situation for each

badge will appear

• Click on the badges and concepts to open a help feature

describing each badge and concept

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TS Score – Driven by the Badges

Excelling on any one badge…

Doesn’t help your TS Score much if you fail on the others!

• Badges are ONLY driven by trades

• The 0-100 TS Score depends on Badges:

• Level of individual badges

• Relative level of ALL badges

• Penalized by WORST badges

• Easiest way to improve your TS Score =

trade thinking of your WORST badge!

Loss Aversion penalizes this strategy (yellow is the weakest colour at TS)

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TS Help – Available everywhere!

Have a question about any element of TradeSlide?

Place your mouse above it and wait for the answer to pop-up!

• The Elements of the Challenge are

explained in a contextual help system

• Just place the mouse cursor above any

element, and wait for the question mark.

Then, click to access the help

• Quick: left hand side summary

• In depth: opens the relevant

elements of the Knowledge Base

• Feel free to share any questions or

contribute any articles (this grows your

mentor score!)

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INDEX

1. UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE

2. HOW TO IMPROVE?

3. QUESTIONS?

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TS Challenge – How to improve?

Trade with a new purpose!

Once you target SKILL – performance FOLLOWS!

Review your diagnostic charts for each element (below the Badges)2

1 Internalize why each TS Element matters, visiting the Knowledge Base

3 Learn from fellow traders who excel on your weak badges

4 Reach out to mentors for help!

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INDEX

1. UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE

2. HOW TO IMPROVE?

3. QUESTIONS?

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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

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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 offer invitations to you