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May 2, 2026 · Tapeline

The formula is public. Here's why that matters.

Every other prosumer score-per-ticker tool hides their methodology as IP. We publish the six factors and the exact weights — because the day the formula stops working, you should know to leave.

If you ask Tipranks why a stock has a 7/10 Smart Score, you get "we aggregate analyst consensus, hedge fund moves, insider trades, and blogger sentiment." If you ask Zacks why a stock has a #1 rank, the answer is "earnings estimate revisions" but the cutoffs are proprietary. If you ask Kavout why their Kai Score moved, you get a black-box ML answer.

Tapeline gives you the literal expression. It's on /how-it-works and reproduced here:

score = 0.25 × trend
      + 0.20 × relative_strength
      + 0.15 × fundamentals
      + 0.15 × smart_money
      + 0.15 × macro
      + 0.10 × momentum

Why publish it?

  • Trust compounds when you can audit. If you find a ticker scoring 90 when its trend is clearly broken, you can call it out — and we'd rather you do that than churn silently.
  • The moat isn't the formula, it's the data spine. Plenty of competitors could copy the equation. None of them will publish their public scorecard back-checking every call against next-day prices the way we do.
  • If the formula stops working, you should leave. We'd rather you make that call honestly than discover via a slow drip of bad picks.

The weights are versioned in our changelog. The day they change, you see why. That's the whole product, in one paragraph.

See it live.

14-day Premium trial. No credit card. The scoring formula above runs on every US ticker every minute.