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Frequently asked questions
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How we score advisors — what these metrics mean▾
- Expectancy (avg return / tip)
- The average return across every resolved call — winners and losers together. The single best 'is this advisor worth following' number, because a tip that closes in profit counts even if it never tagged its target.
- Alpha vs NIFTY 50
- How much the advisor's calls returned above (or below) the NIFTY 50 over each tip's own holding window. Positive alpha means they beat simply buying the index.
- Target hit rate
- The share of tips that reached their target before hitting stop-loss or expiring. A strict bar — a call can still be a directional win (closed in profit by horizon end) without ever hitting target, so a low hit rate isn't the whole story.
- Profit factor
- Total gains ÷ total losses. Above 1 means wins outweigh losses; above 1.5 is strong.
- Annualised return
- Each tip's return scaled to a one-year equivalent (geometric), so short and long calls can be compared on the same footing.
- Sample size & confidence
- How many resolved tips back the numbers. We hide advisors with fewer than 10 resolved tips; larger samples give tighter confidence intervals. Hit rates carry a 95% confidence interval.
- How outcomes are scored
- Every tip is scored against actual NSE market prices over its holding window — not self-reported by the advisor.
- Total upside vs remaining upside
- Two different numbers, and the difference matters. TOTAL upside is the move the advisor called for — entry price to target — and it never changes. REMAINING upside is the move still left from today's price to that same target: it shrinks as the stock moves toward the target, and reads 0% once the price has already passed it. A call can have a healthy total upside and no remaining upside at all — that is a call that worked, not one that failed, and the gain it produced shows in its P&L.
- Why remaining upside never shows a minus sign
- When a stock has run past its target, the room left to that target is zero, not a negative number. We floor it at 0% rather than print a minus that would read as a loss on a call that actually made money. How far past its target a stock has gone is the tip's P&L, not its upside.