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The strategies that didn't work

Last updated 2026-08-31 · benchmark measured 2026-08-31 — deterministic & reproducible

A public registry of trading strategies tested and found not to work.

Is The strategies that didn't work production-ready?

Legit.Show scores The strategies that didn't work 50 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on The strategies that didn't work (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 100/100
• Accessibility — 55/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 47/100
• Standards — 64/100
• Discoverability — 15/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP.
• No HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 45 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Traders · Quants · Statisticians · Researchers · Strategy developers

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