How ranking works
Who counts
Only qualifying accounts count toward any ranking. An account qualifies when:
- its email address is verified;
- it is at least 14 days old;
- it is not the creator's own account, nor an account linked to the creator's billing.
A copy of a strategy counts once that account has run a backtest of it themselves after copying it. The example run that comes with the template does not count. A copy of an indicator counts as soon as it is made. Each account counts once per template. A deleted copy or a removed favorite stops counting.
Sort orders
- Newest orders templates by when they were listed, most recent first.
- Recently updated orders templates by when their latest version was approved, most recent first.
- Most popular orders templates by how many qualifying accounts copied or favorited them in the past 90 days.
- Trending compares the qualifying accounts that copied or favorited a template in the past 7 days with the 7 days before. The score is (this period + 3) divided by (the period before + 3), capped at 5. A template needs at least 5 qualifying accounts in the current period to trend.
- Most copied orders templates by how many qualifying accounts hold a copy, however long ago they copied it.
- Top rated orders templates by their star rating from published reviews, adjusted toward the average of all published reviews: each template is rated as if it also had 10 reviews at that average (a Bayesian average), so a few reviews cannot put it on top. A template needs at least 25 published reviews to be top rated. Held and hidden reviews never count.
The counts are recomputed about every half hour.
Home sections
- Trending this week shows templates with a trending score, by the Trending order.
- Most popular follows the Most popular order.
- Top rated follows the Top rated order and shows only templates with enough published reviews.
- Popular creators adds up the Most popular counts of each creator's listed templates.
- Free to start lists free templates by the Most popular order. Every template is free today.
- New this week holds templates listed in the past week, newest first.
The same for everyone
- Every viewer sees the same order.
- There is no paid placement.
- Official templates follow the same rules. They carry a badge and get no boost.
- Verified creators get a badge and no boost.
- The legacy featured flag is never used.
- How a template performed never affects where it ranks.