The comparison plotted both books in dollars and SPY on a hidden rescaled axis, stretched so its biggest move matched the books' biggest move. SPY's height therefore said nothing about which was ahead, and the stat cells showed R next to SPY's percent, which do not compare. Everything is now percent of the shadow book's equity: - shadow: actual P&L over equity at window start (start equity plus P&L realized before a pinned performance_start_date) - your picks: re-sized at the shadow book's rule (risk_pct, 20% notional cap), so the gap between books is selection only - SPY: buy & hold on the same axis A strategy-vs-SPY verdict measures SPY from the shadow book's first trade, so manual trades opening earlier no longer charge the strategy for SPY's run-up before it existed. R stats stay underneath for book-vs-book reads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>