[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":785},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record":3,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record-related":227},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":211,"date":212,"description":213,"draft":214,"extension":215,"meta":216,"navigation":217,"path":218,"related":219,"seo":223,"stem":224,"term":225,"updated":212,"__hash__":226},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record.md","What Is a Verified Track Record? Definition and Checks",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":203},"minimark",[9,13,18,42,53,56,63,69,73,86,89,93,105,121,125,147,158,162,195],[10,11,12],"p",{},"A verified track record is a record of trading results that arrives directly from the broker through a read-only connection, continuously, with no step in the chain where the publisher can edit, delete or re-order anything. It is the difference between a claim and evidence. Two separate questions hide inside the phrase, and most arguments about verification come from confusing them.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"how-it-works","How it works",[10,19,20,21,26,27,31,32,36,37,41],{},"The first question is whether the data is real. That is answered by the connection itself: a channel that can read the account but never write to it, running without interruption, so the record is built continuously rather than exported at a convenient moment. On ShowMyTrades that channel is one of four — an Expert Advisor installed in MetaTrader 4 or 5, a direct connection using the ",[22,23,25],"a",{"href":24},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password","MT4 investor password",", ",[22,28,30],{"href":29},"\u002Fctrader-account-tracking","cTrader OAuth2 authorisation",", or the ",[22,33,35],{"href":34},"\u002Ftradelocker-tracking","TradeLocker REST API",". None of them can place, modify or close an order. Read-only credentials are the industry mechanism for this, and third-party trackers such as ",[22,38,40],{"href":39},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","Myfxbook"," connect MetaTrader accounts the same way.",[43,44,49],"pre",{"className":45,"code":47,"language":48},[46],"language-text","broker server → read-only connection → ShowMyTrades → public page\n                no editable step anywhere in the chain\n","text",[50,51,47],"code",{"__ignoreMap":52},"",[10,54,55],{},"The second question is whether the person publishing the page owns the account. A read-only feed proves the trades exist; it does not prove whose they are, because an investor password can be handed to anyone. Closing that gap requires an action only someone with trading rights can perform: placing a pending order at an unreachable price with the publisher's user ID in the comment field. On cTrader, one OAuth authorisation answers both questions at once.",[10,57,58],{},[59,60],"img",{"alt":61,"src":62},"Track Record Verified answers whether the data arrived from the broker through a channel that cannot place, modify or close an order; Trading Privileges Verified answers whether the publisher controls the account","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Ftwo-badges.svg",[10,64,65],{},[66,67,68],"em",{},"A record can pass one and fail the other, which is why they are counted separately.",[14,70,72],{"id":71},"why-it-matters","Why it matters",[10,74,75,76,80,81,85],{},"Everything downstream of the connection is arithmetic. If the inputs can be edited, the profit factor, the ",[22,77,79],{"href":78},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown","drawdown"," and the ",[22,82,84],{"href":83},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-equity-curve","equity curve"," are all decoration, no matter how detailed the page looks. A screenshot, a PDF statement and a spreadsheet share the same defect: they are produced by the person asking you to trust them.",[10,87,88],{},"Continuity matters as much as read-only access. A record that can be paused and resumed lets a bad month disappear. When the feed is continuous, an interruption is itself visible on the page — which is information, not an absence of it.",[14,90,92],{"id":91},"what-the-data-shows","What the data shows",[10,94,95,96,100,101,104],{},"Verification is opt-in and requires effort, and the numbers reflect that. Across the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades (August 2026), only ",[97,98,99],"strong",{},"65 carry Track Record Verified"," and ",[97,102,103],{},"264 carry Trading Privileges Verified",". More accounts prove ownership than prove data provenance, because placing one pending order is easier than changing a password at the broker.",[10,106,107,108,112,113,116,117,120],{},"Verified does not mean good. Across the public accounts with trading history, median ",[22,109,111],{"href":110},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-time-weighted-return","time-weighted return"," is ",[97,114,115],{},"+3.2%",", 63.0% are positive, and the median deepest drawdown is ",[97,118,119],{},"9.7%"," — with 17.6% of accounts having lost more than half their peak value at some point. That distribution, built from 15,436,464 synchronised trades, is what an honest record looks like, and it is nothing like the ones used in advertising.",[14,122,124],{"id":123},"where-you-see-it-on-showmytrades","Where you see it on ShowMyTrades",[10,126,127,128,131,132,100,135,138,139,142,143,146],{},"Both badges sit in the ",[97,129,130],{},"Certifications"," group in the header of every account page, above the numbers: ",[97,133,134],{},"Track Record",[97,136,137],{},"Trading Privileges",", green when granted and grey when not, each with a tooltip explaining what it certifies for that platform. The same group also shows ",[97,140,141],{},"Real Account"," or ",[97,144,145],{},"Demo Account",", derived from the broker server rather than self-declared.",[10,148,149,150,153,154,157],{},"Verification is managed in the account settings, where the ",[97,151,152],{},"Investor Password (Optional)"," field lives — clear it and the Track Record badge turns grey on the same save. Both badges are also rendered inside the ",[97,155,156],{},"Complete Dashboard"," widget, which embeds the account header, so an embed on someone else's site carries its own provenance.",[14,159,161],{"id":160},"common-misunderstandings","Common misunderstandings",[163,164,165,177,183,189],"ul",{},[166,167,168,171,172,176],"li",{},[97,169,170],{},"A link to a tracking site is not verification."," ",[22,173,175],{"href":174},"\u002Fguides\u002Fthird-party-verification-explained","Any platform can host an unverified account",". Look for the badge on the page, not for the domain in the URL.",[166,178,179,182],{},[97,180,181],{},"Track Record Verified does not prove ownership."," It proves the trades are real. Someone reselling another trader's investor password can produce a genuine feed of trades that are not theirs.",[166,184,185,188],{},[97,186,187],{},"Verified is not the same as profitable."," The badge certifies provenance and nothing else. Read gain and drawdown together afterwards.",[166,190,191,194],{},[97,192,193],{},"A verified demo account is still a demo account."," Demo fills are optimistic in exactly the conditions where live fills hurt.",[10,196,197,198,202],{},"The procedure for both badges, step by step: ",[22,199,201],{"href":200},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-verify-your-account","how to verify your trading account",".",{"title":52,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":205},2,[206,207,208,209,210],{"id":16,"depth":204,"text":17},{"id":71,"depth":204,"text":72},{"id":91,"depth":204,"text":92},{"id":123,"depth":204,"text":124},{"id":160,"depth":204,"text":161},"Verification","2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z","A verified track record is performance data pulled straight from the broker through a read-only link, continuously, with nothing the publisher can edit.",false,"md",{},true,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record",[220,221,222],"what-is-an-mt4-investor-password","what-is-myfxbook","what-is-drawdown",{"title":5,"description":213},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","Verified Track Record","im3JV0qh8wz_ZbgStl23aUhUUL79OEa_VDXyYyMF254",[228,388,596],{"id":229,"title":230,"body":231,"category":378,"date":212,"description":379,"draft":217,"extension":215,"meta":380,"navigation":217,"path":24,"related":381,"seo":384,"stem":385,"term":386,"updated":212,"__hash__":387},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password.md","What Is an MT4 Investor Password? Read-Only Access",{"type":7,"value":232,"toc":371},[233,239,241,244,250,253,268,270,273,280,282,290,297,299,308,332,334,366],[10,234,235,236,202],{},"The investor password is the second password on every MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 account: it logs in to the same account as the master password but in read-only mode. Whoever holds it can watch the account in full detail and change nothing about it. That asymmetry is why it became the standard credential for ",[22,237,238],{"href":174},"third-party verification",[14,240,17],{"id":16},[10,242,243],{},"MetaTrader accounts ship with two credentials against the same login number. The master password grants trading rights. The investor password grants observation.",[43,245,248],{"className":246,"code":247,"language":48},[46],"Investor password CAN          Investor password CANNOT\n- see balance and equity       - open a position\n- see open positions           - modify or close a position\n- see closed trade history     - place or delete pending orders\n- see margin and free margin   - withdraw or transfer funds\n- attach charts and indicators - change account settings\n",[50,249,247],{"__ignoreMap":52},[10,251,252],{},"A terminal logged in with the investor password shows the New Order button greyed out. The restriction is enforced by the broker's trade server, not by the client, so it cannot be worked around by patching the terminal.",[10,254,255,256,259,260,263,264,267],{},"You set it yourself, and you can change it at any time. In MT4: ",[97,257,258],{},"Tools → Options → Server",", then ",[66,261,262],{},"Change"," next to the investor password. In MT5: ",[97,265,266],{},"Tools → Options → Account → Change Password",", selecting the investor option. Changing it revokes access for everyone holding the old one, immediately.",[14,269,72],{"id":71},[10,271,272],{},"It solves a problem that has no other clean solution: proving your results to a stranger without giving that stranger the ability to trade your money. Before read-only credentials, the alternatives were screenshots and broker statements, both of which are files the trader produces.",[10,274,275,276,279],{},"It also has a limit worth stating plainly. An investor password proves the trades are real; it does not prove they are yours, because the password can be forwarded to anyone. That is why a full ",[22,277,278],{"href":218},"verified track record"," needs a second, separate check of ownership.",[14,281,92],{"id":91},[10,283,284,285,289],{},"The credential covers most of the market we see: of the 10,000+ accounts connected to ShowMyTrades (August 2026), the overwhelming majority are ",[22,286,288],{"href":287},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-metatrader","MetaTrader",", spread over 703 distinct broker servers. Every one of those MetaTrader accounts can be verified with a password its owner sets, without changing anything about how the account trades.",[10,291,292,293,296],{},"Almost nobody does. Only ",[97,294,295],{},"65 accounts carry Track Record Verified",", out of 10,000+ published pages. The friction is not technical; it is that the step is optional, and an unverified page still displays numbers.",[14,298,124],{"id":123},[10,300,301,302,304,305,307],{},"The ",[97,303,152],{}," field is in the account settings. Fill it in and the ",[97,306,134],{}," badge in the account page header turns green; clear it and the badge turns grey on the same save.",[10,309,310,311,100,314,317,318,322,323,326,327,331],{},"It also appears earlier, when you add an account: the ",[66,312,313],{},"MetaTrader 4 Direct Connection",[66,315,316],{},"MetaTrader 5 Direct Connection"," options in the connection picker sync trades using the investor password alone, with nothing installed in your terminal. The ",[22,319,321],{"href":320},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-expert-advisor","Expert Advisor"," option updates far more frequently, and it is the only one that can also report the state of the machine running the strategy in the ",[97,324,325],{},"Terminal & Open Charts"," module — a password-only connection never touches your computer, so it has nothing to report about it. That trade-off is the one thing to weigh before choosing: less setup, or a fuller page. If the strategy runs unattended on a ",[22,328,330],{"href":329},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps","VPS",", the Expert Advisor is what makes that visible.",[14,333,161],{"id":160},[163,335,336,342,348,354,360],{},[166,337,338,341],{},[97,339,340],{},"\"Giving out the investor password is risky.\""," It is read-only and enforced server-side. The real consideration is privacy, not security: whoever holds it sees your balance and every trade you take, live.",[166,343,344,347],{},[97,345,346],{},"\"It reveals my strategy.\""," It reveals your fills, not your logic. Anyone can already see the trades on a public page you publish yourself.",[166,349,350,353],{},[97,351,352],{},"\"Changing the master password changes the investor one.\""," It does not. They are set separately, and platforms holding an unchanged investor password keep working.",[166,355,356,359],{},[97,357,358],{},"\"Some brokers do not offer it.\""," MT4 and MT5 both support it as standard. What varies is whether the broker lets you set it in the terminal or only through their client area.",[166,361,362,365],{},[97,363,364],{},"\"A read-only login means the data is verified.\""," Only if a platform is actually holding that connection open and publishing what it sees. A password in a private message proves nothing to a third party.",[10,367,368,369,202],{},"The full walkthrough, including the ownership check that the password cannot provide: ",[22,370,201],{"href":200},{"title":52,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":372},[373,374,375,376,377],{"id":16,"depth":204,"text":17},{"id":71,"depth":204,"text":72},{"id":91,"depth":204,"text":92},{"id":123,"depth":204,"text":124},{"id":160,"depth":204,"text":161},"Platforms","The MT4 investor password is a read-only credential: it shows balance, equity and every trade, but it cannot open, modify or close a position, or withdraw.",{},[382,221,383],"what-is-a-verified-track-record","what-is-a-vps",{"title":230,"description":379},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password","MT4 Investor Password","xK2dYJaK7fxuwcWoqaPqTsvMELQIwuxpmmw_VrzKLRk",{"id":389,"title":390,"body":391,"category":585,"date":212,"description":586,"draft":214,"extension":215,"meta":587,"navigation":217,"path":78,"related":588,"seo":593,"stem":594,"term":515,"updated":212,"__hash__":595},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown.md","What Is Drawdown? Definition, Formula and Real Numbers",{"type":7,"value":392,"toc":578},[393,396,398,401,407,410,413,447,449,452,458,463,466,478,480,485,497,500,502,524,539,541,571],[10,394,395],{},"Drawdown is the decline in an account's value from a previous peak down to a subsequent low, expressed as a percentage of that peak. It measures how far the account fell from its own best point, not how much it lost on any single trade. Because it accumulates, a 20% drawdown can be built out of forty small losses just as easily as out of one disaster.",[14,397,17],{"id":16},[10,399,400],{},"Every account carries a running high-water mark: the highest value it has ever reached. Drawdown is the distance below that mark at any given moment.",[43,402,405],{"className":403,"code":404,"language":48},[46],"Drawdown % = (Peak value − Current value) \u002F Peak value × 100\n",[50,406,404],{"__ignoreMap":52},[10,408,409],{},"The mark only moves up. When a new high is printed, the high-water mark resets to it and drawdown returns to zero. Until then, every day below the peak is a day in drawdown, whether the account is falling or grinding sideways.",[10,411,412],{},"Three distinctions decide what the number actually means:",[163,414,415,425,431],{},[166,416,417,420,421,424],{},[97,418,419],{},"Relative vs absolute."," Relative drawdown is the percentage above. Absolute drawdown, as MetaTrader reports it, is the fall below the ",[66,422,423],{},"initial deposit"," in currency — a completely different figure that can read 0% on an account currently 40% below its peak.",[166,426,427,430],{},[97,428,429],{},"Equity vs balance."," Equity drawdown counts floating losses on open positions. Balance drawdown counts only closed trades, so a loss that is never realised never appears in it.",[166,432,433,436,437,441,442,446],{},[97,434,435],{},"Current vs maximum."," Current drawdown is where the account sits today. The historical worst is ",[22,438,440],{"href":439},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-maximum-drawdown","maximum drawdown",", and it is the figure most ",[22,443,445],{"href":444},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-track-record","track records"," quote.",[14,448,72],{"id":71},[10,450,451],{},"Drawdown is the constraint that decides whether a strategy is investable, because losses and gains do not compound symmetrically. A 20% fall needs a 25% gain to get back to even. A 50% fall needs 100%.",[10,453,454],{},[59,455],{"alt":456,"src":457},"A 10% loss needs an 11.1% gain to undo it, 25% needs 33.3%, 50% needs 100%, 70% needs 233%","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Frecovery-asymmetry.svg",[10,459,460],{},[66,461,462],{},"Past 50%, the recovery is a bigger job than the loss that caused it.",[10,464,465],{},"It is also the number that removes people from the market. Almost nobody quits during a fast, violent fall — the emotion there is hope. They quit in month nine of a flat recovery. Depth is only half of it; duration is the other half, and it is invisible on a returns chart.",[10,467,468,469,100,473,477],{},"And drawdown is the direct output of ",[22,470,472],{"href":471},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-position-sizing","position sizing",[22,474,476],{"href":475},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-stop-loss","stop-loss"," discipline, far more than of entry quality. Two traders with identical signals and different lot sizes produce identical win rates and completely different survivability.",[14,479,92],{"id":91},[10,481,482,483,202],{},"The figures below describe accounts published on ShowMyTrades. They are not a survey of traders in general. Across the published accounts that have trading history (August 2026), drawn from 15,436,464 synchronised trades, the median deepest drawdown ever reached is ",[97,484,119],{},[10,486,487,488,112,490,492,493,496],{},"Set that against what the same accounts earned. The median ",[22,489,111],{"href":110},[97,491,115],{},", and ",[97,494,495],{},"63.0%"," of them are positive over time. The middle account here therefore gave up roughly three times its eventual return in peak-to-trough decline along the way: the risk absorbed is larger than the result, and larger by a multiple rather than a margin.",[10,498,499],{},"That ratio, not the raw depth, is what makes a drawdown figure readable. A published claim of large gains beside a two- or three-percent drawdown is not impossible, but it sits at the outer edge of this distribution, and the rest of the account page is where an edge case has to be justified.",[14,501,124],{"id":123},[10,503,504,505,508,509,512,513,516,517,523],{},"On every published account page, the ",[97,506,507],{},"Account Stats"," panel carries two figures on consecutive rows, immediately below ",[97,510,511],{},"Avg Monthly %",": ",[97,514,515],{},"Drawdown",", measured on equity so floating losses on open positions are included, and ",[97,518,519],{},[22,520,522],{"href":521},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown-on-balance","DD on Balance",", measured on closed results only. Both are historical maxima rather than today's reading, and both come from the broker feed rather than from the account owner.",[10,525,526,527,529,530,533,534,538],{},"The charts module has a ",[97,528,515],{}," view that plots daily drawdown as bars over the life of the account. That is where the ",[66,531,532],{},"duration"," of a decline becomes readable instead of inferred, which no single headline percentage can convey. The ",[22,535,537],{"href":536},"\u002Ftools\u002Fdrawdown-calculator","drawdown calculator"," runs the recovery arithmetic on your own balance.",[14,540,161],{"id":160},[163,542,543,549,555,565],{},[166,544,545,548],{},[97,546,547],{},"\"Drawdown is my biggest losing trade.\""," It is not. It is a cumulative peak-to-trough path that can contain hundreds of trades, including winners.",[166,550,551,554],{},[97,552,553],{},"\"My drawdown went back to zero after I recovered.\""," Current drawdown did. Maximum drawdown never falls, by design — it stops a good quarter from erasing a bad one.",[166,556,557,560,561,202],{},[97,558,559],{},"\"Low drawdown means low risk.\""," On a young account it usually means untested. The median published account here has 171 closed trades; below a few hundred, ",[22,562,564],{"href":563},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-much-history-a-track-record-needs","a small drawdown is a sample size, not a risk profile",[166,566,567,570],{},[97,568,569],{},"\"Balance drawdown is the real one.\""," It is the flattering one. Grid and averaging-down systems keep balance drawdown small precisely by refusing to close losers.",[10,572,573,574,202],{},"For how drawdown reads alongside every other number on an account page, see ",[22,575,577],{"href":576},"\u002Fguides\u002Freading-a-trading-account-dashboard","how to read a trading account dashboard",{"title":52,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":579},[580,581,582,583,584],{"id":16,"depth":204,"text":17},{"id":71,"depth":204,"text":72},{"id":91,"depth":204,"text":92},{"id":123,"depth":204,"text":124},{"id":160,"depth":204,"text":161},"Metrics","Drawdown is the peak-to-trough fall in an account's value, in percent. Here is the formula, why it is cumulative, and what thousands of real trading accounts show.",{},[589,590,591,592],"what-is-maximum-drawdown","what-is-position-sizing","what-is-a-stop-loss","what-is-a-profit-factor",{"title":390,"description":586},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown","DMQq_wxULyvtTewFH3EendlyxckASOfp4LLweDXbTKY",{"id":597,"title":598,"body":599,"category":378,"date":212,"description":779,"draft":217,"extension":215,"meta":780,"navigation":217,"path":39,"related":781,"seo":782,"stem":783,"term":40,"updated":212,"__hash__":784},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook.md","What Is Myfxbook? Definition and How It Works",{"type":7,"value":600,"toc":772},[601,604,606,612,615,618,620,629,631,652,655,657,664,693,710,733,735,761],[10,602,603],{},"Myfxbook is an online analytics and community platform for forex traders, launched in 2009. A trader links a MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5 account to it, and the platform publishes that account's statistics on a public page that can be shared or embedded elsewhere. It is one of the oldest third-party trading trackers, and its public pages are a common form in which trading results are circulated.",[14,605,17],{"id":16},[10,607,608,609,611],{},"An account is connected either with the ",[22,610,25],{"href":24}," or with an Expert Advisor installed in the terminal. From there the platform reads the account continuously and derives the usual statistics — gain, drawdown, profit factor, monthly returns, per-symbol breakdowns — onto a public \"system\" page.",[10,613,614],{},"Alongside the tracking, the site hosts community features and market tools: forums, an economic calendar, position-size and pip calculators, aggregated market sentiment, and broker comparison pages. Public pages can be embedded on other sites through widgets and forum signature images, so a page is often encountered indirectly — as a link or a banner attached to a claim made somewhere else.",[10,616,617],{},"Verification is tiered: a connected account can be shown as tracked, and separately as having had its trading privileges or its broker data confirmed. Which tier a given page carries is stated on the page itself.",[14,619,72],{"id":71},[10,621,622,623,625,626,202],{},"Signal sellers, EA vendors and managed-account offers frequently support a claim with a link to a tracker page, and Myfxbook is one of the platforms those links point to, so knowing how to read one is a practical skill. The habit is the same on any tracker: check the verification state before reading a single number, then read ",[22,624,79],{"href":78}," before gain, then check ",[22,627,628],{"href":563},"how long the history actually is",[14,630,92],{"id":91},[10,632,633,634,636,637,639,640,171,644,647,648,651],{},"We cannot see inside another platform's database, so the only distribution we can quote is our own. Across the public accounts on ShowMyTrades with trading history (August 2026): median time-weighted return ",[97,635,115],{},", median deepest drawdown ",[97,638,119],{},", median ",[22,641,643],{"href":642},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-profit-factor","profit factor",[97,645,646],{},"1.28",", median 171 closed trades per account, median win rate ",[97,649,650],{},"68.8%",". Those public pages have been visited 94,710 times.",[10,653,654],{},"Two of those figures are worth holding together, because they are the ones a tracker page tends to be quoted for. A 68.8% median win rate sits alongside a median profit factor of 1.28: most trades close green, and the aggregate edge is still thin. Any tracker page, on any platform, can be read selectively by quoting the first number without the second.",[14,656,124],{"id":123},[10,658,659,660,202],{},"ShowMyTrades is a tracker of the same kind, so most of what this entry describes has a direct counterpart here, under our own names. Where the two differ, and where Myfxbook is the better tool, is laid out row by row in ",[22,661,663],{"href":662},"\u002Fshowmytrades-vs-myfxbook","ShowMyTrades vs Myfxbook",[10,665,666,669,670,100,673,676,677,680,681,684,685,688,689,692],{},[97,667,668],{},"The connection step."," The picker offers ",[66,671,672],{},"MetaTrader 4 with EA",[66,674,675],{},"MetaTrader 5 with EA",", the two ",[66,678,679],{},"Direct Connection"," options that use the ",[22,682,683],{"href":24},"investor password"," alone, ",[66,686,687],{},"cTrader"," through OAuth2 authorisation, and ",[66,690,691],{},"TradeLocker"," through its REST API. Between them those four routes carry the 10,000+ accounts connected here, across 703 distinct broker servers.",[10,694,695,698,699,701,702,704,705,707,708,202],{},[97,696,697],{},"The verification state."," Two named badges in the ",[97,700,130],{}," group of the account header, rather than a single word: ",[97,703,134],{},", granted when the read-only feed is in place, and ",[97,706,137],{},", granted when ownership has been proved. Of 10,000+ published accounts, 65 carry the first and 264 the second. Which badge a page carries is the thing to read; see ",[22,709,278],{"href":218},[10,711,712,171,715,719,720,100,723,726,727,729,730,732],{},[97,713,714],{},"The embeds.",[22,716,718],{"href":717},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftrading-widgets-and-embeds","Seven widget formats",", from ",[66,721,722],{},"Stats Card",[66,724,725],{},"Equity Curve"," to the full ",[66,728,156],{},", which carries the verification badges into the embed itself. Accounts running on a ",[22,731,330],{"href":329}," can additionally publish the terminal's live state.",[14,734,161],{"id":160},[163,736,737,743,749,755],{},[166,738,739,742],{},[97,740,741],{},"\"Verified\" does not mean one thing across platforms."," Each tracker defines its own tiers. Read which specific badge a page carries rather than trusting the domain it sits on.",[166,744,745,748],{},[97,746,747],{},"A signature image is not a live record."," A banner pasted into a forum post is an image; the link under it is the record. Click it.",[166,750,751,754],{},[97,752,753],{},"Being listed anywhere is not an endorsement."," Trackers publish what traders connect. Nobody vetted the strategy.",[166,756,757,760],{},[97,758,759],{},"The same account can show different numbers on two platforms."," Time-weighted return, absolute gain and deposit handling are computed differently by different vendors, and a drawdown figure may be measured on equity or on closed balance only. Compare like with like before concluding one of them is wrong.",[10,762,763,764,767,768,202],{},"If you are about to trust a ",[22,765,766],{"href":444},"track record"," on any platform, run it through the checklist first: ",[22,769,771],{"href":770},"\u002Fguides\u002Fverifying-trading-performance-claims","how to verify trading performance claims",{"title":52,"searchDepth":204,"depth":204,"links":773},[774,775,776,777,778],{"id":16,"depth":204,"text":17},{"id":71,"depth":204,"text":72},{"id":91,"depth":204,"text":92},{"id":123,"depth":204,"text":124},{"id":160,"depth":204,"text":161},"Myfxbook is a forex analytics and community platform: traders connect an MT4 or MT5 account and it publishes the statistics on a public, shareable page.",{},[382,220,383],{"title":598,"description":779},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","JCd0nf2ykiaenlwUVNiEBC5SamluNl7WkwypIrjRbws",1787415690889]