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Goal:
Provide you with a number that represents "how practical (good entry and exit) and profitable (high confidence of good, consistent returns) it is to follow this caller or group's token calls."
Find a more detailed explanation of each component and adjuments made below.
For sure reach out to @shirtlessfounder on Telegram if you have any suggestions for improving the system. We're continuously iterating on the ELO calcs.
A "call" in the system is defined as the first mention of a token per user in a 30 day time window.
First token mention only (per user, per 30 d)
Filters out echo-spam and reposts.
The performance of a call is dictated by the mcap multiple achieved at the exit mcap (@ T0+3min) from the entry mcap (@ T0).
Return per call:
Some nuances were applied to approximate for call actionability:
Get entry mcap at time-of-call + 20 seconds
Gives realistic reaction time after seeing a call notification and entry mcap for followers
3-minute holding window (mc₀
→ mc₃m
)
Normalizes TP "strategy" across all calls. Average holding time among active trenchers.
Sample-size floor – A dynamic threshold of calls is applied per the look-back window before an ELO is given to the user.
Lower-bound gate – The lower 95 % one-sided confidence limit of the mean return to cut out lucky moons that are statistically indistinguishable from noise.
Target = 4% returns.
Rewards upside while punishing only downside.
Number of calls (n)
Count number of first token mentions per lookback window.
More first mentions = higher conviction the ratio is real.
ELO is a product of these two factors. A caller with a Sortino of 2.6 over 38 valid calls ends up with an ELO = 98.8.
Slice size – ratings are re-evaluated every 12 h slice using only data that existed before that slice.
Lookback windows – on the leaderboard, we calculate 1d, 7d, 30d and all-time ELOs for each user. Each time period has its own call threshold that's dynamically adjusted according to the dataset.
Decay – calls gradually lose weight (half-life ≈ 7 d) so stale edge bleeds away.
One-hit wonder pumps
Needs a threshold of calls & positive lower-CI.
Echo-chamber hype
First-mention rule prevents credit for copy-paste alerts.
Pump and dump callers
Downside in Sortino + optional width-test caps their score.
Back-test overfitting
Strictly rolling, out-of-sample scoring; no hindsight.
Clean call data → first token mention + call actionability adjustments + 3-minute return.
Caller consistency → callers must achieve a threshold of calls before ELO is assigned.
Risk / downside adjustments → Sortino ratio calculation.
ELO Score → Sortino ratio × number of calls.
That’s the ELO you see next to every alert and on the global leaderboard. Again, reach out to @shirtlessfounder on Telegram if you have a suggestion on improving the system.
See formula below and explanation .