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Is Life Score actually better than 90-day ROI for picking traders?

Jul 24, 2026 1 reply
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They answer different questions, and it is worth being precise about which.

90-day ROI answers "what did this account return over a window". It is a real number, and it is also the number most easily produced by taking too much risk — and the one that survives a blown-up account, because the window starts after the reset.

Life Score answers "how was that return produced". Same +120%: one trader compounded it without a day worse than −4%, another lost the deposit, refunded it, and caught one leveraged move. ROI shows both the same. The curve does not.

What we would actually suggest, and it is not "use ours instead": read them together, in this order — worst single day, deepest drawdown, number of active trading days, then ROI. If the first three are missing from the page you are reading, the ROI on it is not telling you much.

Neither number predicts the future, and nothing here is financial advice. The method is documented at Methodology.

Jul 24, 2026
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One mechanical detail behind Life Score, since it decides the number more than anything else: we sum a trader's returns per cycle rather than compounding them across a reset.

Take a trader who makes +80%, loses the deposit, funds it again and makes +80% more. Compounded from the start, that history reads as a disaster: -100%, and nothing after the zero can lift it. Summed by cycle, it reads +160% with a wipe-out sitting between the halves, and both facts stay on the page - the return and the reset that produced it.

Neither number is "the truth" on its own, and that is the point of showing both. What the cycle view says out loud is the thing the compounded number hides: the follower who withdrew profit between cycles walked away with money, and the one who let it ride did not. Same trader, same trades, two completely different outcomes - decided by the follower, not by the master.

Aug 22, 2026

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