Opportunity score

Opportunity score: the short answer

The opportunity score is Coil's single 0–100 rating of a stock's overall buy-and-hold setup. It blends three lenses with fixed, published weights — 0.4 Leadership + 0.3 Entry + 0.3 Hold — into one number: is this a leader, is now a real entry, and can you hold it with confidence. A chase, a falling knife, or a name you can't hold gets marked down no matter how strong its chart looks.

The three lenses, and why the weights sit where they do

Leadership (0.4) carries the most weight because it is the part of the edge that persists: is this name actually leading its sector and the market on relative strength, not just drifting up with the tape? A mediocre name at a perfect entry is still a mediocre name.

Entry (0.3) is the timing gate — where price sits relative to a real, structural entry. It is scored from the entry state: a leader pulled back to support scores high; the same leader pinned at its highs scores low, because paying top of range is how good names become bad trades.

Hold (0.3) is the forgotten lens most scanners skip: once you're in, does the structure support staying in? That is hold strength — trend maturity, distance to support, and gap risk, scored before the position exists.

The dashboard also prints the sub-scores behind the blend — Leadership, Entry, Hold, and Growth, the fundamental backbone that keeps a hot chart honest — so the one number is always decomposable. A ✓ all-green mark means all lenses agree: a leader, at a real entry, you can hold with confidence.

What the score is not

It is not a buy signal, a price target, or advice. It is a research ranking published to every reader identically, and the entry state still gates timing on top of it — a 90 that sits in CHASE is a 90 you wait for. Coil publishes a forward-return audit of these scores, computed by a methodology fixed in advance and posted even when it reads negative — which, on the current thin sample, it does. That audit lives at /api/board/signal-audit, free.

Where you see it

The score leads the daily board in the Coil Scanner (free preview: top 3 per book), appears on every name's page under /stocks one market day delayed, and drives what the trading engine is allowed to consider. The full model, weights included, is on how Coil works.

People also ask

What is Coil's opportunity score?

It is Coil's single 0–100 rating of a stock's buy-and-hold setup, combining three lenses with fixed weights — 0.4 Leadership + 0.3 Entry + 0.3 Hold. It answers three questions at once: is this a leader, is now a real entry, and can you hold it with confidence.

How is the opportunity score weighted?

0.4 Leadership + 0.3 Entry + 0.3 Hold, on a 0–100 scale. Leadership carries the most weight because durable relative strength is the part of the edge that persists; entry and hold gate the timing and the durability of the position.

Is a high opportunity score a buy signal?

No. It is a research ranking, not advice, and timing is still gated by the entry state — a high-scoring name marked CHASE or FALLING is one Coil deliberately waits on. Coil also publishes a forward-return audit of its own scores even when the result is unflattering.

Where can I see opportunity scores for free?

The scanner's free preview shows the top 3 names per book each market morning, every name has a page under coil.trade/stocks one market day delayed, and one full committed day of scores is free through the public API.

Related terms

Entry state · Hold strength · Relative strength · Market leadership · full glossary →