Methodology
How the Community Score Works | Rating GitHub Trading Repos
FullStack Alpha Editorial Team
Reviewed by Jay Rocco, Chief Editor
What Does the Community Score Measure?
The Community Score rates how healthy and trusted a repo is, using public data anyone can check. It does not measure whether a strategy makes money. Nothing on GitHub can promise that, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
It is not an Alpha Score. Alpha Scores come only from our own hands-on testing on AIStockPickerApp.com.
How Are the Five Pillars Weighted?
Adoption30 pts
GitHub stars on a log scale. 100,000 stars earns the full 30. A star is a bookmark, not a vote of confidence, so it never carries the score alone.
Maintenance25 pts
Days since the last code push. Under 30 days earns 25. Over a year earns 3. Trading code that nobody maintains breaks the first time a broker changes its API.
Community sentiment20 pts
What traders say on Reddit and Hacker News. Positive 20, mixed 13, negative 5. Fewer than two independent threads counts as not enough data and sits at 8, so new projects are not punished for being new. Posts by the repo's own creator do not count.
Builder activity15 pts
Forks on a log scale. A fork means someone cared enough to build on it.
License clarity10 pts
MIT, Apache or BSD earn 10. GPL family licenses earn 8, because they come with sharing rules. No license file earns 0, because you have no clear right to use the code at all.
The Community Score as a Pyramid
Where Does the Data Come From?
Stars, forks, license and last update come straight from each repo's public GitHub data. Sentiment comes from Reddit and Hacker News threads we read ourselves, and every quote we show links to the original comment.
Repos are rescored when we refresh the data. A repo that stops getting updates drops on its own.
Where Should You Go Next?
Want a tool that is already built and tested? Our hands-on AI stock tool reviews on AIStockPickerApp.com score finished products on five pillars, the AI stock tools directory at AIStockPickerApps.com sorts 200+ tools by the job they do, and AIStockTradingBots.com walks through broker APIs, bot setup and backtesting step by step. Or head back to the Trading Workflows home page to match tools to your own routine and budget.
Common Questions
Is the Community Score the same as an Alpha Score?
No. The Community Score comes only from public data about a repo. An Alpha Score comes from our own hands-on testing of a product, published on AIStockPickerApp.com.
Does a high Community Score mean a repo makes money?
No. It means the project is popular, maintained, clearly licensed and well regarded by its users. Whether a strategy makes money is a separate question that only your own testing can answer.
How often are the scores updated?
Scores are recalculated whenever we refresh the GitHub and community data. A repo that stops getting updates will drop on its own.
