How Mint Take Measures Performance

Mint Take tracks how creator recommendations perform after they are made.

For each call, we compare the product's price when the recommendation was published with its latest available market price.

Current Return = latest price compared with the original reference price.

Because older recommendations have had more time to rise or fall, Mint Take does not compare every call together. Calls are grouped by how long ago they were made.

• 1–3M: recommendations 30 to 89 days old
• 3–6M: recommendations 90 to 179 days old
• 6–12M: recommendations 180 to 364 days old
• 1Y+: recommendations at least 1 year old

A recommendation belongs to only one group at a time. As it gets older, it automatically moves into the next group.

How creator rankings are calculated

For each time period, Mint Take takes all of a creator's eligible calls and calculates their average Current Return.

Every call counts equally. A $50 product and a $500 product receive the same weight.

Creators need at least 3 eligible calls in a time period before they appear on that leaderboard.

The number of calls is always shown because a ranking based on 3 calls naturally provides less information than one based on 20 or 50 calls.

Win Rate

Win Rate shows the percentage of eligible calls that are currently above their original reference price.

A positive return counts as a win. A return of exactly 0% does not.

Why rankings can change

Mint Take's leaderboards are live.

A creator's ranking can change because product prices move, new calls become eligible, or older calls move into the next time period.

For example, a recommendation that is 89 days old appears in the 1–3M leaderboard. Once it reaches 90 days, it moves into 3–6M.

This means the leaderboard reflects how a creator's calls of a similar age are performing right now, rather than freezing their performance at a historical checkpoint.

How the reference price is chosen

Mint Take tries to use the product's market price on the date the creator's video was published.

If no valid price is available that day, Mint Take checks the next three days and uses the earliest valid price it can find.

Mint Take never uses a price from before the recommendation and does not substitute today's price when a historical reference price is unavailable.

Calls without a valid reference price are not included in performance calculations.

Repeat recommendations

Creators sometimes recommend the same product more than once.

To prevent repeated mentions of the same product from artificially increasing a creator's score, Mint Take suppresses closely spaced repeat calls.

Use these implemented minimum spacing rules:

• 1–3M: repeated calls on the same exact product must be at least 30 days apart
• 3–6M: at least 90 days apart
• 6–12M: at least 180 days apart
• 1Y+: at least 365 days apart

Once calls are separated by at least the relevant period, they can count separately because they may represent genuinely different entry points and market conditions.

Different product versions, such as a booster box and an Elite Trainer Box, are treated as separate products.

Important context

Grouping calls by age makes comparisons more consistent, but it does not make every recommendation identical.

A 35-day-old call and an 85-day-old call can both appear in the 1–3M group, for example. Products also differ in volatility, liquidity, and market conditions.

The 1Y+ group is currently broad. As Mint Take collects more long-term data, additional longer-term groups may be added.

Mint Take presents historical performance as one way to evaluate creator calls. It is not a definitive measure of investment skill, and past performance does not predict future results.