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How safe a fund is

Every fund carries one safety number, out of 10, and a colour. Ten out of ten is as safe as this site can say a fund is. Green is strong, orange is mixed, red is weak.

It is a summary of things you can check yourself on the fund page. It is not a promise, not advice, and not a claim that a green fund will make money.

  • What it holds. Coins we have checked and listed count for most. Coins that pass an open test count for less. Brand new coins count for least. One bad coin drags the whole number down. The score does not average a weak coin away behind good ones, because a basket is only as sound as the worst thing in it.
  • How long it has been running, and how it has done. A fund that has lived through something is worth more than one opened this morning, and its own record counts too. Both grow as the fund ages. Neither is a forecast.
  • Who runs it. A manager who has linked their X account is a real, findable person, and that counts for something. A larger following counts for a little more.

It is drawn as one bar beside the number, in the colour of its group. On the fund page the three ingredients are named under it with their own readings, so you can see which one is holding a fund back.

A fund nobody has been able to check yet shows no number at all. That is not a zero and must not be read as one: zero is the worst score there is, and no score means nobody has taken the reading.

The same number decides more than how a fund reads. It decides where a fund sits.

Wherever funds are listed in order, three passes decide that order, in this sequence, and only the first of them is the return.

A leaderboard drawn as six rows: three funds ranked by the length of their return bar, then below a rule the fund with the longest bar of all, marked as having a weak safety score, then below a second rule two funds with no bar at all, each labelled with why nobody could measure itWhat puts a fund at the top.Ranked1Fund A2Fund B3Fund C4Fund Dbest return on the board, weak safety scoreNot rankedFund Etoo new to have a readingFund Fno price for one of its coins1Sort by returnover the window you picked, and nothing else2Weak safety goes lastbelow every fund that is not weak, whatever it returned3No reading, no placelisted apart with the reason, never sorted as a zeroA leaderboard drawn as six rows: three funds ranked by the length of their return bar, then below a rule the fund with the longest bar of all, marked as having a weak safety score, then below a second rule two funds with no bar at all, each labelled with why nobody could measure itWhat puts a fund at the top.Ranked1Fund A2Fund B3Fund C4Fund Dbest return on the board, weak safety scoreNot rankedFund Etoo new to have a readingFund Fno price for one of its coins1Sort by returnover the window you picked, and nothing else2Weak safety goes lastbelow every fund that is not weak, whatever it returned3No reading, no placelisted apart with the reason, never sorted as a zero
A board is sorted by return over the window you pick. A fund nobody could measure is listed apart with the reason rather than sorted as a zero, and a fund with a weak safety score goes below every fund that is not weak however well it did. So the top of a list is never simply the best week on it.

Individual coins carry a mark of their own. A coin we have checked and listed carries nothing, because that is the ordinary case. A coin that passed the open test is marked quietly. A brand new coin is marked plainly, and you see it in the basket before the button that takes your money.