[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":757},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password":3,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password-related":200},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":185,"date":186,"description":187,"draft":188,"extension":189,"meta":190,"navigation":188,"path":191,"related":192,"seo":196,"stem":197,"term":198,"updated":186,"__hash__":199},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password.md","What Is an MT4 Investor Password? Read-Only Access",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":177},"minimark",[9,19,24,27,38,41,58,62,65,73,77,85,92,96,107,132,136,170],[10,11,12,13,18],"p",{},"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 ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"\u002Fguides\u002Fthird-party-verification-explained","third-party verification",".",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"how-it-works","How it works",[10,25,26],{},"MetaTrader accounts ship with two credentials against the same login number. The master password grants trading rights. The investor password grants observation.",[28,29,34],"pre",{"className":30,"code":32,"language":33},[31],"language-text","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","text",[35,36,32],"code",{"__ignoreMap":37},"",[10,39,40],{},"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.",[10,42,43,44,48,49,53,54,57],{},"You set it yourself, and you can change it at any time. In MT4: ",[45,46,47],"strong",{},"Tools → Options → Server",", then ",[50,51,52],"em",{},"Change"," next to the investor password. In MT5: ",[45,55,56],{},"Tools → Options → Account → Change Password",", selecting the investor option. Changing it revokes access for everyone holding the old one, immediately.",[20,59,61],{"id":60},"why-it-matters","Why it matters",[10,63,64],{},"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.",[10,66,67,68,72],{},"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 ",[14,69,71],{"href":70},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","verified track record"," needs a second, separate check of ownership.",[20,74,76],{"id":75},"what-the-data-shows","What the data shows",[10,78,79,80,84],{},"The credential covers most of the market we see: of the 10,000+ accounts connected to ShowMyTrades (August 2026), the overwhelming majority are ",[14,81,83],{"href":82},"\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.",[10,86,87,88,91],{},"Almost nobody does. Only ",[45,89,90],{},"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.",[20,93,95],{"id":94},"where-you-see-it-on-showmytrades","Where you see it on ShowMyTrades",[10,97,98,99,102,103,106],{},"The ",[45,100,101],{},"Investor Password (Optional)"," field is in the account settings. Fill it in and the ",[45,104,105],{},"Track Record"," badge in the account page header turns green; clear it and the badge turns grey on the same save.",[10,108,109,110,113,114,117,118,122,123,126,127,131],{},"It also appears earlier, when you add an account: the ",[50,111,112],{},"MetaTrader 4 Direct Connection"," and ",[50,115,116],{},"MetaTrader 5 Direct Connection"," options in the connection picker sync trades using the investor password alone, with nothing installed in your terminal. The ",[14,119,121],{"href":120},"\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 ",[45,124,125],{},"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 ",[14,128,130],{"href":129},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps","VPS",", the Expert Advisor is what makes that visible.",[20,133,135],{"id":134},"common-misunderstandings","Common misunderstandings",[137,138,139,146,152,158,164],"ul",{},[140,141,142,145],"li",{},[45,143,144],{},"\"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.",[140,147,148,151],{},[45,149,150],{},"\"It reveals my strategy.\""," It reveals your fills, not your logic. Anyone can already see the trades on a public page you publish yourself.",[140,153,154,157],{},[45,155,156],{},"\"Changing the master password changes the investor one.\""," It does not. They are set separately, and platforms holding an unchanged investor password keep working.",[140,159,160,163],{},[45,161,162],{},"\"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.",[140,165,166,169],{},[45,167,168],{},"\"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.",[10,171,172,173,18],{},"The full walkthrough, including the ownership check that the password cannot provide: ",[14,174,176],{"href":175},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-verify-your-account","how to verify your trading account",{"title":37,"searchDepth":178,"depth":178,"links":179},2,[180,181,182,183,184],{"id":22,"depth":178,"text":23},{"id":60,"depth":178,"text":61},{"id":75,"depth":178,"text":76},{"id":94,"depth":178,"text":95},{"id":134,"depth":178,"text":135},"Platforms","2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z","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.",true,"md",{},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password",[193,194,195],"what-is-a-verified-track-record","what-is-myfxbook","what-is-a-vps",{"title":5,"description":187},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password","MT4 Investor Password","xK2dYJaK7fxuwcWoqaPqTsvMELQIwuxpmmw_VrzKLRk",[201,388,566],{"id":202,"title":203,"body":204,"category":377,"date":186,"description":378,"draft":379,"extension":189,"meta":380,"navigation":188,"path":70,"related":381,"seo":384,"stem":385,"term":386,"updated":186,"__hash__":387},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record.md","What Is a Verified Track Record? Definition and Checks",{"type":7,"value":205,"toc":370},[206,209,211,233,239,242,249,254,256,269,272,274,284,300,302,323,333,335,365],[10,207,208],{},"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.",[20,210,23],{"id":22},[10,212,213,214,217,218,222,223,227,228,232],{},"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 ",[14,215,216],{"href":191},"MT4 investor password",", ",[14,219,221],{"href":220},"\u002Fctrader-account-tracking","cTrader OAuth2 authorisation",", or the ",[14,224,226],{"href":225},"\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 ",[14,229,231],{"href":230},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","Myfxbook"," connect MetaTrader accounts the same way.",[28,234,237],{"className":235,"code":236,"language":33},[31],"broker server → read-only connection → ShowMyTrades → public page\n                no editable step anywhere in the chain\n",[35,238,236],{"__ignoreMap":37},[10,240,241],{},"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.",[10,243,244],{},[245,246],"img",{"alt":247,"src":248},"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",[10,250,251],{},[50,252,253],{},"A record can pass one and fail the other, which is why they are counted separately.",[20,255,61],{"id":60},[10,257,258,259,263,264,268],{},"Everything downstream of the connection is arithmetic. If the inputs can be edited, the profit factor, the ",[14,260,262],{"href":261},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown","drawdown"," and the ",[14,265,267],{"href":266},"\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.",[10,270,271],{},"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.",[20,273,76],{"id":75},[10,275,276,277,113,280,283],{},"Verification is opt-in and requires effort, and the numbers reflect that. Across the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades (August 2026), only ",[45,278,279],{},"65 carry Track Record Verified",[45,281,282],{},"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.",[10,285,286,287,291,292,295,296,299],{},"Verified does not mean good. Across the public accounts with trading history, median ",[14,288,290],{"href":289},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-time-weighted-return","time-weighted return"," is ",[45,293,294],{},"+3.2%",", 63.0% are positive, and the median deepest drawdown is ",[45,297,298],{},"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.",[20,301,95],{"id":94},[10,303,304,305,308,309,113,311,314,315,318,319,322],{},"Both badges sit in the ",[45,306,307],{},"Certifications"," group in the header of every account page, above the numbers: ",[45,310,105],{},[45,312,313],{},"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 ",[45,316,317],{},"Real Account"," or ",[45,320,321],{},"Demo Account",", derived from the broker server rather than self-declared.",[10,324,325,326,328,329,332],{},"Verification is managed in the account settings, where the ",[45,327,101],{}," field lives — clear it and the Track Record badge turns grey on the same save. Both badges are also rendered inside the ",[45,330,331],{},"Complete Dashboard"," widget, which embeds the account header, so an embed on someone else's site carries its own provenance.",[20,334,135],{"id":134},[137,336,337,347,353,359],{},[140,338,339,342,343,346],{},[45,340,341],{},"A link to a tracking site is not verification."," ",[14,344,345],{"href":16},"Any platform can host an unverified account",". Look for the badge on the page, not for the domain in the URL.",[140,348,349,352],{},[45,350,351],{},"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.",[140,354,355,358],{},[45,356,357],{},"Verified is not the same as profitable."," The badge certifies provenance and nothing else. Read gain and drawdown together afterwards.",[140,360,361,364],{},[45,362,363],{},"A verified demo account is still a demo account."," Demo fills are optimistic in exactly the conditions where live fills hurt.",[10,366,367,368,18],{},"The procedure for both badges, step by step: ",[14,369,176],{"href":175},{"title":37,"searchDepth":178,"depth":178,"links":371},[372,373,374,375,376],{"id":22,"depth":178,"text":23},{"id":60,"depth":178,"text":61},{"id":75,"depth":178,"text":76},{"id":94,"depth":178,"text":95},{"id":134,"depth":178,"text":135},"Verification","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,{},[382,194,383],"what-is-an-mt4-investor-password","what-is-drawdown",{"title":203,"description":378},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","Verified Track Record","im3JV0qh8wz_ZbgStl23aUhUUL79OEa_VDXyYyMF254",{"id":389,"title":390,"body":391,"category":185,"date":186,"description":558,"draft":188,"extension":189,"meta":559,"navigation":188,"path":129,"related":560,"seo":563,"stem":564,"term":130,"updated":186,"__hash__":565},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps.md","What Is a VPS in Trading? Why Uptime Decides Results",{"type":7,"value":392,"toc":551},[393,399,401,404,410,413,416,424,426,434,437,439,454,457,459,499,510,516,518,544],[10,394,395,396,398],{},"A VPS, or virtual private server, is a slice of a physical machine in a datacentre that you rent and use like a remote computer. In trading it has one job: run your ",[14,397,83],{"href":82}," terminal continuously, on a connection that does not drop, in a building close to your broker's trade server. For an automated strategy it is not an optimisation — it is the environment the strategy actually lives in.",[20,400,23],{"id":22},[10,402,403],{},"You connect to the VPS over remote desktop, install the terminal there, log in and leave it running. Your own laptop can then be closed, updated or thrown away without the strategy noticing. The two things you are buying are uptime and physical proximity to the trade server, and the second one is measurable as round-trip latency.",[28,405,408],{"className":406,"code":407,"language":33},[31],"Ping = terminal → trade server → terminal, round trip\n",[35,409,407],{"__ignoreMap":37},[10,411,412],{},"There is no official threshold for a good number, and the one that matters is relative: the same figure that is unremarkable for a strategy holding positions for days is disqualifying for one working the spread. What is not arguable is the direction — as the round trip grows, fills arrive further from the price the strategy asked for.",[10,414,415],{},"What happens when the terminal goes down mid-position is the part people get wrong. In MetaTrader, a stop loss or take profit attached to an open position is held by the broker's server, so it still triggers with the terminal off. Everything else is client-side and stops dead: new entries, trailing stops, partial closes, break-even moves, virtual stops the Expert Advisor keeps in memory, grid and recovery logic. A martingale system that loses its terminal halfway through a sequence does not pause — it holds an unmanaged basket until the terminal comes back, and the position it would have opened to balance the book never exists.",[10,417,418,419,423],{},"Latency and packet loss matter for a separate reason: they widen the gap between the price your EA decided on and the price it received. That gap is ",[14,420,422],{"href":421},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-slippage","slippage",", and no amount of strategy tuning trades around it.",[20,425,61],{"id":60},[10,427,428,429,433],{},"An automated strategy's live result is the strategy plus its execution environment. Two accounts running identical code on different machines produce different curves, and the difference belongs to ping, uptime and fill quality rather than to logic. This is one of the reasons ",[14,430,432],{"href":431},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-backtesting","backtest"," results overstate live performance: a backtest never disconnects, never misses a bar, and always fills at the modelled price.",[10,435,436],{},"It also matters for anyone reading someone else's record. A track record produced on a 40 ms VPS is not reproducible on a home laptop with 300 ms ping and nightly Windows updates, even with the same EA and the same broker.",[20,438,76],{"id":75},[10,440,441,442,445,446,449,450,453],{},"Automation is the norm on our platform, not the exception. Across the public accounts on ShowMyTrades with trading history (August 2026), the ",[45,443,444],{},"median autotrading share is 99%",", and ",[45,447,448],{},"53.9% of accounts are more than 90% automated",". The distribution is barbell-shaped: another ",[45,451,452],{},"42.2% are under 10% automated",", with very little in between. Traders are either fully hands-off or fully manual.",[10,455,456],{},"More than half of the accounts publishing results here therefore depend on a terminal that has to stay up, connected, and permitted to trade — across 703 distinct broker servers and 15,436,464 synchronised trades.",[20,458,95],{"id":94},[10,460,98,461,463,464,470,471,474,475,217,478,481,482,113,485,488,489,217,492,318,495,498],{},[45,462,125],{}," module on the account page reports the live state of the machine the strategy runs on: ",[14,465,467],{"href":466},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-terminal-ping",[45,468,469],{},"Ping"," to the trade server, ",[45,472,473],{},"Retransmission"," (the share of network packets that had to be sent again), ",[45,476,477],{},"Terminal build",[45,479,480],{},"Memory"," of the host machine, and whether ",[45,483,484],{},"Auto trading",[45,486,487],{},"DLL imports"," are allowed. A connection badge reads ",[50,490,491],{},"Connected",[50,493,494],{},"No trade server",[50,496,497],{},"Offline",", next to how long ago the terminal last reported, and the header counts how many of your terminals are online.",[10,500,501,502,506,507,18],{},"Below it, the open charts table lists each chart with its symbol, timeframe, ",[14,503,504],{"href":120},[45,505,121],{}," and indicators — so you can see what is actually loaded, not what is claimed. In the account header, a badge shows the automation split read from the trades themselves, for example ",[50,508,509],{},"99% autotrading",[10,511,512,513,515],{},"This is also what a ",[14,514,71],{"href":70}," looks like when it is honest about its own conditions: the numbers and the environment that produced them, on the same page.",[20,517,135],{"id":134},[137,519,520,526,532,538],{},[140,521,522,525],{},[45,523,524],{},"A VPS does not make a strategy profitable."," It removes missed executions and downtime. If the edge is not there, a faster machine loses money more reliably.",[140,527,528,531],{},[45,529,530],{},"Ping to a website is not ping to the trade server."," The number that matters is the round trip to your broker's server, which is what the terminal reports — a VPS in the wrong city can be slower than your desk.",[140,533,534,537],{},[45,535,536],{},"Low latency does not eliminate slippage."," Spread, liquidity and the broker's execution model still apply. A VPS removes your share of the delay, not theirs.",[140,539,540,543],{},[45,541,542],{},"\"My PC never crashes\" is not the claim being made."," Windows updates, sleep settings, ISP outages and power cuts all disconnect a terminal, and each one happens at a random moment relative to your open positions.",[10,545,546,547,18],{},"To read the rest of an account page with the same scepticism: ",[14,548,550],{"href":549},"\u002Fguides\u002Freading-a-trading-account-dashboard","how to read a trading account dashboard",{"title":37,"searchDepth":178,"depth":178,"links":552},[553,554,555,556,557],{"id":22,"depth":178,"text":23},{"id":60,"depth":178,"text":61},{"id":75,"depth":178,"text":76},{"id":94,"depth":178,"text":95},{"id":134,"depth":178,"text":135},"A VPS is an always-on rented server that keeps your trading terminal running and connected when your own computer sleeps, reboots or loses its connection.",{},[193,561,562],"what-is-slippage","what-is-backtesting",{"title":390,"description":558},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-vps","I4TIf563St5m6tF3Pb_5h1pPDQHp1v7OdG4YiQx2XLQ",{"id":567,"title":568,"body":569,"category":185,"date":186,"description":751,"draft":188,"extension":189,"meta":752,"navigation":188,"path":230,"related":753,"seo":754,"stem":755,"term":231,"updated":186,"__hash__":756},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook.md","What Is Myfxbook? Definition and How It Works",{"type":7,"value":570,"toc":744},[571,574,576,582,585,588,590,600,602,623,626,628,635,664,681,704,706,732],[10,572,573],{},"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.",[20,575,23],{"id":22},[10,577,578,579,581],{},"An account is connected either with the ",[14,580,216],{"href":191}," 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.",[10,583,584],{},"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.",[10,586,587],{},"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.",[20,589,61],{"id":60},[10,591,592,593,595,596,18],{},"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 ",[14,594,262],{"href":261}," before gain, then check ",[14,597,599],{"href":598},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-much-history-a-track-record-needs","how long the history actually is",[20,601,76],{"id":75},[10,603,604,605,607,608,610,611,342,615,618,619,622],{},"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 ",[45,606,294],{},", median deepest drawdown ",[45,609,298],{},", median ",[14,612,614],{"href":613},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-profit-factor","profit factor",[45,616,617],{},"1.28",", median 171 closed trades per account, median win rate ",[45,620,621],{},"68.8%",". Those public pages have been visited 94,710 times.",[10,624,625],{},"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.",[20,627,95],{"id":94},[10,629,630,631,18],{},"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 ",[14,632,634],{"href":633},"\u002Fshowmytrades-vs-myfxbook","ShowMyTrades vs Myfxbook",[10,636,637,640,641,113,644,647,648,651,652,655,656,659,660,663],{},[45,638,639],{},"The connection step."," The picker offers ",[50,642,643],{},"MetaTrader 4 with EA",[50,645,646],{},"MetaTrader 5 with EA",", the two ",[50,649,650],{},"Direct Connection"," options that use the ",[14,653,654],{"href":191},"investor password"," alone, ",[50,657,658],{},"cTrader"," through OAuth2 authorisation, and ",[50,661,662],{},"TradeLocker"," through its REST API. Between them those four routes carry the 10,000+ accounts connected here, across 703 distinct broker servers.",[10,665,666,669,670,672,673,675,676,678,679,18],{},[45,667,668],{},"The verification state."," Two named badges in the ",[45,671,307],{}," group of the account header, rather than a single word: ",[45,674,105],{},", granted when the read-only feed is in place, and ",[45,677,313],{},", 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 ",[14,680,71],{"href":70},[10,682,683,342,686,690,691,113,694,697,698,700,701,703],{},[45,684,685],{},"The embeds.",[14,687,689],{"href":688},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftrading-widgets-and-embeds","Seven widget formats",", from ",[50,692,693],{},"Stats Card",[50,695,696],{},"Equity Curve"," to the full ",[50,699,331],{},", which carries the verification badges into the embed itself. Accounts running on a ",[14,702,130],{"href":129}," can additionally publish the terminal's live state.",[20,705,135],{"id":134},[137,707,708,714,720,726],{},[140,709,710,713],{},[45,711,712],{},"\"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.",[140,715,716,719],{},[45,717,718],{},"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.",[140,721,722,725],{},[45,723,724],{},"Being listed anywhere is not an endorsement."," Trackers publish what traders connect. Nobody vetted the strategy.",[140,727,728,731],{},[45,729,730],{},"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.",[10,733,734,735,739,740,18],{},"If you are about to trust a ",[14,736,738],{"href":737},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-track-record","track record"," on any platform, run it through the checklist first: ",[14,741,743],{"href":742},"\u002Fguides\u002Fverifying-trading-performance-claims","how to verify trading performance claims",{"title":37,"searchDepth":178,"depth":178,"links":745},[746,747,748,749,750],{"id":22,"depth":178,"text":23},{"id":60,"depth":178,"text":61},{"id":75,"depth":178,"text":76},{"id":94,"depth":178,"text":95},{"id":134,"depth":178,"text":135},"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.",{},[193,382,195],{"title":568,"description":751},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","JCd0nf2ykiaenlwUVNiEBC5SamluNl7WkwypIrjRbws",1787415691881]