I Audited My Own Stock-Grading Engine and Found 14 Flaws. Here’s How I Rebuilt It.
A transparent look at Signal 2.0, the new grading system behind Quantex Terminal, and the investing lessons that forced the rebuild. Q uantex Terminal was created to help beginner investors research stocks and get transparent recommendations. Not a black box signal , but an informative report that gives you information about how the rating was compiled. So when I finally sat down to audit the engine producing those grades and realized that it was secretly optimized to recommend some of the WORST possible trades, I knew I only had one choice: to ensure my users do not get cut on a falling knife , to rebuild it, and to share with everyone what I learned. ** ( Read Until The End For an Important Message) ** What the old engine did well I want to be fair to the thing I’m about to criticize, because it got the most important thing right: it was fully explainable. Every grade broke down into six factors, each worth a set number of points, and you could trace any verdict back to a rule, whi...