What is conviction grade?
A self-assigned label at entry — Core, Tactical, or Probe — that lets you measure later whether your conviction held.
A self-assigned label at entry — Core, Tactical, or Probe — that lets you measure later whether your conviction held.
Conviction grade, explained
Pick one when you log a trade, an honest read of how strong the setup is. The grade you set at entry is later compared against your actual hold time and outcome, so conviction decay becomes visible — did you hold the Core and size down the Probe, or the reverse? It turns a gut feeling at entry into something you can grade later.
A worked example
Core = bet-the-book, size large · Tactical = everyday thesis · Probe = a small speculative feeler · Flagged = “shouldn’t have, but did”
Where conviction grade shows up in a journal
A trading journal is where this stops being a definition and becomes your own number. sizeforzero computes it from the trades you import or log, alongside the rest of your analytics vocabulary, and every figure in the app carries an (i) that explains it in the same plain English you just read.