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title: "What the Fincanva score is and how to read it"
description: "The Fincanva score is a normalized, Beta-badged 0–5 quality score for your backtest, shown on a gauge with a Strong, Fair or Weak tier; here is how to read it."
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# What the Fincanva score is and how to read it

The Fincanva score is a single quality score that rates your strategy on a normalized scale, with its benchmark shown alongside for comparison. It appears in **Performance Metrics** as **"Fincanva score"**, carries a **Beta** badge, and is a research signal — not a rating of what will happen to your money.

## How does the Fincanva score work?
The Fincanva score rates your backtest's overall quality as a single number derived from the strategy's own results — the benchmark is scored the same way and displayed next to it for comparison, but it is not subtracted from your score. Because the scale is normalized, it lets you weigh strategies of different lengths and styles on the same scale. Fincanva does not publish how the score is calculated — the dimensions are named below, but their weighting and the formula that combines them are deliberately not disclosed. For the one-line definition, see [Fincanva score](/docs/analysis/fincanva-score).

## How do you read the Fincanva score?
The score is shown as a gauge on a 0–5 scale, labelled with the score and its maximum — for example "Fincanva score 3.2 out of 5" — with a quality tier of **Strong**, **Fair**, or **Weak**. The card also shows the benchmark's own score, so you can read the two side by side. A higher tier means the backtest scored better than a lower one.

## Which dimensions does the Fincanva score weigh?
Six, each shown below the gauge with its own reading on the same 0–5 scale. The labels are the ones the card itself displays:

| Dimension | What it looks at |
|---|---|
| **CAGR / AAGR** | the strategy's growth rate — see [CAGR](/docs/analysis/cagr) |
| **Max DD** | the worst peak-to-trough fall — see [max drawdown](/docs/analysis/max-drawdown) |
| **Std Dev** | how much the returns varied — see [volatility](/docs/analysis/volatility) |
| **Sharpe** | return per unit of risk — see [Sharpe ratio](/docs/analysis/sharpe-ratio) |
| **Pos Months** | the share of months that ended up rather than down |
| **Recovery Speed** | how the strategy came back out of its drawdowns — see [longest recovery](/docs/analysis/longest-recovery) |

Naming the six is as far as this goes: **how each dimension is turned into its 0–5 reading, how the six are weighted, and how they combine into the headline score are not published** (see below). Two dimensions are worth reading with their direction in mind — a *high* Max DD or Std Dev reading is a good result, because each dimension is scored so that higher is better, not so that higher is more of the raw metric.

## Why isn't the formula published?
The dimensions above are named, but the exact way the Fincanva score is calculated from them is proprietary and intentionally left undocumented — not even support can share it. Reading the tier, the six dimensions and the benchmark comparison is enough to use it. A high score also does not tell you to buy, hold, or sell anything — it summarises historical quality, not a recommendation, and it does not guarantee any future result.

## Limits and edge cases
The score is marked **Beta**, so its presentation may still change. The **Beta** badge here refers to the feature's beta status — it is unrelated to [beta](/docs/analysis/beta), the finance measure. Before a strategy has enough simulated history to score, the card shows "No score available yet" instead of a gauge. A strong score reflects past, simulated performance only; it is not a promise or forecast of future results.

*The Fincanva score describes historical, simulated quality — not future results, and not advice. Fincanva provides no financial advice — see [Is this financial advice?](/docs/investing-theory/is-this-financial-advice).*