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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
Rs
• 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?
• [email protected] 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