FoxScore

Metric guide

Trend Strength

Stability/“cleanliness” of a trend

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Plain-language summary

What this metric tells you

Trend Strength measures how clean and consistent the recent trend has been, not just whether price ended higher. It rewards orderly persistence and penalizes messy back-and-forth movement.

Key takeaway

This metric is about trend quality. Two assets can post similar returns, but the one with the cleaner path will usually look stronger here.

FoxScore context

How FoxScore uses it

  • FoxScore uses Trend Strength to separate clean leadership from noisy headline winners.
  • It is one of the best supporting metrics for users who care about technical quality rather than only endpoint return.
  • The metric is especially powerful when read next to return and moving-average distance measures.

How to interpret this metric

What it measures

  • Whether the recent path looks like a steady trend rather than random chop.
  • How coherent the direction of the move has been over the recent window.
  • A quality overlay for return and price-vs-average metrics.

How to read it

  • Values near +1 mean a stable recent uptrend.
  • Values near 0 mean sideways, noisy, or unclear movement.
  • Values near -1 mean a stable recent downtrend rather than just one bad day.

What can mislead

  • Long-term compounding outside the recent window.
  • You mistake a clean downtrend for something positive just because the absolute value looks extreme.
  • You ignore bigger-cycle return and drawdown context.

Most useful when

  • You want to know whether a positive move is orderly enough to trust.
  • You are choosing between assets with similar returns but very different chart texture.
  • You want a compact trend-quality signal without reading a full chart manually.

Important limits

  • Long-term compounding outside the recent window.
  • How deep the worst drawdown was.
  • Whether the asset outperformed a benchmark specifically.
Methodology and sources

Technical definition, calculation notes and sources stay available here without dominating the explanation.

Description

Trend strength tries to measure how consistent a trend has been over roughly the last 90 days.

A steady rise without large back-and-forth moves looks “stronger” than a choppy path, even if the end return is similar.

The scale ranges from −1 to +1: near +1 indicates a stable uptrend, near −1 a stable downtrend. Values around 0 suggest sideways/unclear.

Calculation

  • 1) Look at the last 90 days (N = 90) and index time points: t_i = i for i = 1..N.
  • 2) y_i = ln(Price_i)
  • 3) trend_strength = corr(t, y)
  • 4) clip(trend_strength, −1, +1).

Interpretation

  • Higher is better (more upward trend stability).
  • Very low values can mean a clear downtrend - or high volatility with a falling underlying trend.

Metric ranking

Current ranking by this metric

Use the ranking after the explanation, not as a standalone investment signal.

Top Assets
  1. 1
    JUST logo
    JUST
    JST · crypto
    0.95
  2. 2
    Zcash logo
    Zcash
    ZEC · crypto
    0.94
  3. 3
    DEXE
    DeXe
    DEXE · crypto
    0.93
  4. 4
    Tron logo
    Tron
    TRX · crypto
    0.93
  5. 5
    dYdX logo
    dYdX
    DYDX · crypto
    0.91
  6. 6
    JTO
    Jito
    JTO · crypto
    0.91
  7. 7
    Centrifuge logo
    Centrifuge
    CFG · crypto
    0.91
  8. 8
    Injective logo
    Injective
    INJ · crypto
    0.90
  9. 9
    BCAP
    Blockchain Capital
    BCAP · crypto
    0.88
  10. 10
    SKYAI
    SkyAI
    SKYAI · crypto
    0.86
Bottom Assets
  1. 174
    ZRO
    LayerZero
    ZRO · crypto
    -0.93
  2. 173
    CoW Protocol logo
    CoW Protocol
    COW · crypto
    -0.92
  3. 172
    BTSE
    BTSE Token
    BTSE · crypto
    -0.92
  4. 171
    ULTIM
    Ultima
    ULTIMA · crypto
    -0.88
  5. 170
    ETHFI
    Ether.fi
    ETHFI · crypto
    -0.88
  6. 169
    BARD
    Lombard
    BARD · crypto
    -0.87
  7. 168
    BERA
    Berachain
    BERA · crypto
    -0.85
  8. 167
    NIGHT
    Midnight
    NIGHT · crypto
    -0.85
  9. 166
    Aave logo
    Aave
    AAVE · crypto
    -0.82
  10. 165
    IP
    Story
    IP · crypto
    -0.81
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