FX Blue alternative

The proof on your sales page should look like part of the page

The widget you paste is the part of your track record that strangers actually look at. It should arrive in your site's colours and keep itself current, instead of sitting there as a block borrowed from somewhere else.

First, what FX Blue is

A long-established tool with a deep feature set. If it already does what you need it to, this page is not trying to talk you out of it.

That is not a courtesy line before the pitch. FX Blue is long established and the range of what it calculates is deep. If it already answers the questions you ask of it, the honest advice is to keep it, and nothing further down this page is an argument for switching it off.

This page is for a narrower situation. It is for the trader who has stopped using an analytics tool privately and started using it publicly — sending the link to a buyer, an investor, a prop firm or a subscriber, or embedding the results on a site they own. At that point two things begin to matter that never mattered while the tool was just for you: what the page looks like to a stranger who has never heard of either of us, and what happens when you paste a widget into your own layout.

Our own connection reads the account and has no authority to send an order to it, so nothing here asks you to give anything up. The differences below are about presentation, about which platforms are covered, and about what the page states as verified.

What the two pages do differently

Presentation first, then platform coverage, then what the page states as verified. The last two rows go against us, and they are the ones to read hardest.
What you are comparing ShowMyTrades FX Blue
Embeddable widget styling Follows the theme of the site it sits in A white 2010-era block
Interface Built for current browsers, dark and light Dated
Adverts and sponsor banners around your numbers None, on any plan, for anyone Sponsor banners for brokers on the pages
MT4 and MT5 Yes, read-only investor password Yes
cTrader Yes, OAuth on the cTrader Open API No
TradeLocker Yes, credentials encrypted server-side No
Verification badges Two: Track Record Verified, Trading Privileges Verified
Real or demo status Pulled from the broker, not self-declared
Visibility control Private, published or unlisted; lots, comments and stops hidden separately
Renaming your public link Once every 30 days, old address redirects permanently
Terminal diagnostics (ping, retransmission, DLL imports) Yes, to the account owner only
Breadth of the toolset Narrow on purpose: track records and the tools to read them Deep, built up over many years
Community and forums No
Economic calendar Yes, free

A dash means we have not verified it and will not guess. Everything in the FX Blue column that is not a dash comes from looking at their pages ourselves; the rest is theirs to describe, not ours.

Then read the last row properly, because it is the one that should send some people away. Their feature set is deeper than ours and has been built up over far longer, and we have no community and no forum. What we build is the page a track record lives on, and the widgets that carry it somewhere else.

Why the widget is the row that matters

An embed has exactly one job: to look like it belongs on the page you put it on.

Think about where these things end up. A vendor's sales page. A signal seller's landing page. A forum signature. A prop firm application. Most of those pages are dark now, and a white rectangle dropped into a dark layout reads as something bolted on from elsewhere rather than as part of the page. The one element that was meant to settle a reader's doubt becomes the one their eye slides straight past.

Our live embeds take the theme of the site they sit in. Dark page, dark widget; light page, light widget; the same corners and weights as the layout around them. Because the embed renders live instead of sitting there as a screenshot, the equity curve and the statistics move as the account trades, and nobody has to remember to refresh anything after a good week or quietly forget to after a bad one. For places a script cannot go — a forum signature, an email — the same data is available as a generated PNG or SVG in colours you pick.

The other half of that promise is that the embed survives you. A public link can be renamed at most once every 30 days, and the old address keeps working through a permanent redirect, so a widget pasted on somebody else's site three months ago does not quietly turn into an empty box the day you change your handle. To see how the pages and their widgets actually render before signing up for anything, Explore lists accounts that are published right now.

The same principle governs the page itself. There is no advertising anywhere on ShowMyTrades, on any plan, for anyone: no banners beside the equity curve, no sponsored links under the statistics, nothing standing between a reader and the numbers. Public profiles, account pages and widgets are free; the paid plan exists for the Portfolio module, which merges several accounts into one aggregated view.

The same account widget embedded twice: on a dark site it renders dark, on a light site it renders light, taking the colours of the page around it each time
One embed for both, and it keeps updating instead of ageing like a screenshot.

Four platforms behind the same page

Two of the four have no equivalent on FX Blue or Myfxbook, and none of the four connections is able to send an order.

MT4 and MT5

Connected with the investor password, which exposes balance, equity and the full trade history and carries no authority to place, modify or close an order. Connecting the account changes nothing about how it trades.

cTrader

Authorised over OAuth on the cTrader Open API, so no password is typed here at all. The approval happens on cTrader's side and can be withdrawn there at any point, without going through us.

TradeLocker

The white-label platform behind a growing number of brokers and prop firms, and one of the two here that neither FX Blue nor Myfxbook covers. The credentials your broker issued are encrypted server-side and never travel to the browser.

Terminal diagnostics

A panel that is not about the trades at all: ping to the trade server, packet retransmission, terminal build, memory, whether auto trading is permitted and whether DLL imports are. It is served only to the account owner and never renders on a public page.

Four platform connections side by side: MT4 and MT5 through the investor password, cTrader through OAuth revocable at cTrader, TradeLocker through a REST API with credentials encrypted server-side, none able to send an order
The credential differs by platform; the limit on what it can do does not.

Two badges, because a reader has two doubts

Whether the numbers are genuine, and whether they belong to the person showing them. Answering only the first leaves the page half proved.

Track Record Verified settles the first. The figures arrived from the broker along a channel with no power to place, modify or close an order, so there was no moment at which anyone could have typed them, uploaded them or tidied them up.

Trading Privileges Verified settles the second. Whoever publishes the page did something only the account's owner could do. Without it, a track record can be entirely genuine and still be sitting on the wrong person's page.

Both badges sit in the header, beside a Real or Demo label taken from the broker rather than from a box the owner ticked. Neither badge is given away for signing up: of 10,000+ connected accounts, 65 carry Track Record Verified and 264 carry Trading Privileges Verified. For the mechanics, what third-party verification actually proves sets out what each badge does and does not establish, and how to verify your account walks through earning them.

The numbers, and how to read them

A page full of statistics only helps if whoever opens it knows which ones survive scrutiny.

Across the connected accounts on 703 distinct broker servers, the median win rate on ShowMyTrades is 68.8%, while the median profit factor, net of costs, is 1.28. Those two figures belong side by side: a high win rate is one of the easiest numbers in trading to produce and one of the least informative, which is why it gets a guide here rather than a headline.

Reading a page

Reading a trading account dashboard walks through every block on a public account page, in the order a sceptical reader should take them.

Return and risk

Time-weighted return takes deposits and withdrawals out of the picture; maximum drawdown says what holding the account felt like.

What proves nothing

Why win rate is not an edge and spotting fake EA results cover the numbers that look strongest and mean least.

How long is long enough

How much history a track record needs answers the question every serious buyer asks straight after the first chart.

What the broker takes

The broker cost audit separates spread, commission and swap from the strategy result, which matters most on high-frequency accounts.

Before you size a trade

The free calculators cover position size, margin, drawdown and risk of ruin, and this guide explains which one to reach for.

From nothing to an embeddable page

Four steps, none of which involve exporting data out of anywhere.
  1. Point us at the account. The investor password on MetaTrader, an OAuth approval on cTrader, the credentials your broker issued on TradeLocker.
  2. Wait while the history arrives. Closed trades, balance and equity come across on their own; there is no import file and nothing to type.
  3. Decide how visible it is. Private, published, or unlisted — reachable by anyone holding the link, but out of search and out of Explore. Lot sizes, comments and stop levels each have their own switch.
  4. Copy the embed. A custom slug for the page itself, and a widget for your own site that arrives in your colours instead of fighting them.

Whatever you already have set up can stay exactly where it is while you do this: our connection only ever reads, so nothing in the process asks you to choose one page over another. If you want the wider view first, verified versus unverified track records and tracking trading performance are the two most people read before connecting anything, and verifying performance claims is the one to send to whoever is checking you out.

What people ask before they paste the embed

Put your track record somewhere it looks like it belongs

Free public pages, free widgets that follow your site's theme, no advertising anywhere, and four platforms, two of which neither FX Blue nor Myfxbook covers. Connect an account and see how it renders on a page of your own.