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Trust can never outrun Integrity

Trust · 2 min read ·

Most social trading leaderboards rank on return. That is the number easiest to produce and easiest to flatter: pick the right window, leave out the drawdown, and a mediocre year reads as a good one. FinTruvix ranks on Trust instead, and Trust is built so that returns cannot carry it alone.

The published rule is T = min(0.6·P + 0.4·I, I + 15). Performance is weighted more heavily than Integrity in the first term, which is what you would expect. The second term is the one that matters: whatever the blend produces, Trust is capped at fifteen points above the Integrity score. A strategist with an Integrity of 60 cannot show a Trust above 75, however well they trade.

For a strategist, Performance is computed from settled trades: profit factor, risk adjusted return, drawdown control, win rate, reward to risk and longevity. Integrity reads three things: conduct records, weighted by how serious they are; complaints that are still unresolved; and whether the disclosures the role requires are complete. Both are recalculated every day from recorded activity.

The practical effect is that conduct is not a soft signal sitting beside the numbers. It is a hard ceiling on them. A strategist who leaves complaints unresolved, leaves required disclosures missing or accumulates conduct records watches their Trust fall even while their trading is unchanged, because the cap comes down with their Integrity.

A strategy with nothing settled yet publishes no Trust figure at all. The listing shows an em dash and says it is still building history, which is not a low score. It is the absence of one.

Trust Scores describe past, verified behaviour and conduct. They are not a prediction of future results or a recommendation to trade. Trading carries a substantial risk of loss; only trade with capital you can afford to lose.

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