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The Short-term Score

A 0–100 weighted average of five technical pillars — trend 25%, momentum 20%, setup 20%, volume and participation 15%, catalysts 20% — describing where a share stands on the tape today. It describes past price behaviour; it does not forecast the next move.

The short-term score is built the same way as its long-term sibling — percentile ranks averaged with published weights that sum to one — but from an entirely different set of inputs: trend 25%, momentum 20%, setup 20%, volume and participation 15%, catalysts 20%. Trend asks where price sits against its own moving averages and whether a real trend is present rather than a drift. Momentum asks how the last few months have gone, in absolute terms and against the market. Setup is structure: a candidate Elliott labelling, a retracement zone, a volatility squeeze. Volume asks whether the move is being participated in. Catalyst is the disclosure side — open-market insider buying, analyst revisions, the reaction to the last set of results.

Some conditions subtract rather than add. A share that is stretched — very overbought on more than one oscillator — is penalised, and a share whose short- and long-run averages have crossed downwards with price beneath them has its trend pillar zeroed rather than merely reduced, because a trend pillar that awarded partial credit inside a confirmed downtrend would be describing something that is not there. The penalties are part of the published formula and appear on the method page with everything else.

What this score is for, and what it cannot do. It is a way of ranking companies by how they currently look on the tape, computed nightly from stored daily closes, so the same question asked twice on the same day gets the same answer and anyone can check it against the underlying figures. It is not a prediction, not a signal, and not advice: every input is a measurement of what has already happened. Where the setup pillar draws on a candidate Elliott labelling, the row carries the price at which that labelling stops being possible, because a structure claim without its invalidation level is an opinion wearing a number.

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Related terms

  • The Long-term Score — A 0–100 number that is the weighted average of a company’s percentile ranks on six pillars — profitability 20%, growth 20%, financial health 15%, valuation 15%, shareholder return 10%, long-term trend 20% — and the thing the Long-term 10 is sorted by. It is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation.
  • Percentile rank — Where one company stands in a field, expressed from 0 to 100 rather than in the metric’s own units — the device that lets a margin, a growth rate and a valuation multiple be averaged into one score without any of them dominating.
  • Rebalance — The scheduled moment when a list’s membership is allowed to change — rebalanced on the first trading day of each month for the Long-term 10, rebalanced every Monday for the Short-term 10. Scores move every night; membership only moves on the calendar.
  • Hysteresis (why a list does not churn) — The rule that a current member keeps its place while its rank stays within 15 even though only 10 are published — a deliberate gap that stops the same two companies swapping places every period on differences too small to mean anything.
  • Equal weight — Treating every holding in a list as the same size, so a company’s influence on the result comes from its own move and not from how large the company is — the basis on which the Top-10 lists are tracked against the market.

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