The 5-minute version, before you trust any track record:
→ Sharpe ratio
→ trade count
→ profit concentration
...before growth % gets anywhere near your decision.
Spent this week pulling apart public trading track records — signal marketplaces, prop firm leaderboards, backtests people post.
Growth % is the number everyone leads with. It's also close to the least useful one for judging whether the edge is real.
Thread on what matters 🧵
Strip that one week out and the whole story changes.
None of this means the seller did anything wrong. Most are transparent, the numbers are public. It's that the one-line summary (growth %, star rating) never surfaces any of it.