[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1076},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account":3,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account-related":217},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":201,"date":202,"description":203,"draft":204,"extension":205,"meta":206,"navigation":204,"path":207,"related":208,"seo":213,"stem":214,"term":215,"updated":202,"__hash__":216},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account.md","What Is an Unlisted Account? Link-Only Records",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":192},"minimark",[9,13,18,26,33,56,59,73,77,90,101,104,108,115,119,142,152,156,185],[10,11,12],"p",{},"An unlisted account is a published ShowMyTrades account that has been removed from every listing on the platform: the page renders in full for anyone holding the URL, but nothing on the site points to it. It sits between private, where nobody but the owner can load the page at all, and published, where the page is both readable and discoverable.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"how-it-works","How it works",[10,19,20,21,25],{},"Unlisted is not a separate kind of page, and not a separate value in the visibility field. Internally the account stays ",[22,23,24],"code",{},"published"," and carries a boolean link-only flag, which is why the page, the statistics, the widgets, the followers and the slug all behave exactly as they did before the switch — no public endpoint had to change to support it. Only listings change.",[10,27,28,29,32],{},"Three public listings filter unlisted entities out, each by the same ",[22,30,31],{},"unlisted = false"," condition on its query:",[34,35,36,44,50],"ul",{},[37,38,39,43],"li",{},[40,41,42],"strong",{},"Your public trader profile",", which is the same endpoint that fills the \"other accounts by this trader\" suggestions at the foot of every account page.",[37,45,46,49],{},[40,47,48],{},"The Explore feed",", and the community counters that sit on it.",[37,51,52,55],{},[40,53,54],{},"The public account search"," used by the Widget Builder, so nobody can find the account by name or ID and embed it.",[10,57,58],{},"Two more places exclude them by choice rather than by listing logic: the referral page will not offer an unlisted account as the link you share publicly, and the AI analysis job filters them out, so no new analysis is generated. Analyses produced before the switch stay on the page.",[10,60,61,62,67,68,72],{},"Everything else is untouched. The account page loads for anyone with the address, the widget endpoints serve it, the ",[63,64,66],"a",{"href":65},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget","widgets"," you already embedded keep rendering, and a custom slug change still leaves a 301 redirect behind. The same option and the same semantics apply to ",[63,69,71],{"href":70},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-portfolio","portfolios",".",[14,74,76],{"id":75},"why-it-matters","Why it matters",[10,78,79,80,84,85,89],{},"Because \"show one person\" and \"publish to the world\" are different requests, and most platforms only offer the second. An unlisted page is the version you send to ",[63,81,83],{"href":82},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-prop-firm","a prop firm"," reviewing your application, to an investor doing due diligence, or to one client of the twenty you track — without that account joining your public profile, ",[63,86,88],{"href":87},"\u002Fguides\u002Ffinding-real-trading-accounts","appearing in the community feed",", or turning up in a widget somebody else builds.",[10,91,92,93,96,97,100],{},"Be precise about what it does not do. It is ",[40,94,95],{},"not"," private: anyone holding the link sees the whole page, trades included. It carries no ",[22,98,99],{},"noindex"," tag and stays in the sitemap, which is a deliberate decision rather than an oversight — an unlisted page that Google indexes is an accepted outcome. Followers who followed the account before the switch keep seeing it under Following, because they already have the link. Platform counters keep counting it as published. And the owner does not see their own unlisted accounts on their own public profile; they are managed from the private dashboard.",[10,102,103],{},"If a page must not be readable by a stranger who guesses or is forwarded the URL, the correct setting is private, not unlisted.",[14,105,107],{"id":106},"what-the-data-shows","What the data shows",[10,109,110,111,114],{},"Of the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades, ",[40,112,113],{},"37 are unlisted"," (August 2026). It is a deliberately narrow tool used by a small number of owners, and the shape of that usage matches the design: people who track many accounts and want to hand out one of them.",[14,116,118],{"id":117},"where-you-see-it-on-showmytrades","Where you see it on ShowMyTrades",[10,120,121,122,125,126,129,130,133,134,137,138,141],{},"In ",[40,123,124],{},"Account Settings → General → Visibility"," the dropdown holds exactly three entries, each prefixed with a small icon: ",[40,127,128],{},"Private - Only you can view",", ",[40,131,132],{},"Published - Visible to others"," and ",[40,135,136],{},"Unlisted - Only via direct link",". On the dashboard page for that account an amber ",[40,139,140],{},"Unlisted"," badge sits next to the copy-link and open-page buttons. In the dashboard Accounts and Portfolios tables it is a third state in the Status column, in amber, with a matching entry in the Status filter. The admin panel's Visibility column distinguishes it too, though its filter does not yet offer it as a choice.",[10,143,144,145,133,148,151],{},"One behaviour worth knowing: the bulk ",[40,146,147],{},"Publish",[40,149,150],{},"Hide"," actions in those tables always clear the flag. Publishing something is meant to make it genuinely public, and hiding it is not meant to leave a link-only flag armed for the next time it is published.",[14,153,155],{"id":154},"common-misunderstandings","Common misunderstandings",[34,157,158,164,173,179],{},[37,159,160,163],{},[40,161,162],{},"\"Unlisted means private with a link.\""," It means published, minus discovery. The page is fully public to anyone who has the address.",[37,165,166,169,170,172],{},[40,167,168],{},"\"Search engines will not find it.\""," They can. There is no ",[22,171,99],{},", and the page stays in the sitemap.",[37,174,175,178],{},[40,176,177],{},"\"Making an account unlisted breaks my embeds.\""," It does not. Widgets serve published accounts, and unlisted accounts are published. Setting the account to private is what breaks them.",[37,180,181,184],{},[40,182,183],{},"\"Nobody can see it any more.\""," Existing followers still can, and so can anyone the link was forwarded to.",[10,186,187,188,72],{},"For how visibility, slugs and the public profile fit together, see ",[63,189,191],{"href":190},"\u002Fguides\u002Fpublic-profile-and-custom-slugs","the public profile and custom slugs guide",{"title":193,"searchDepth":194,"depth":194,"links":195},"",2,[196,197,198,199,200],{"id":16,"depth":194,"text":17},{"id":75,"depth":194,"text":76},{"id":106,"depth":194,"text":107},{"id":117,"depth":194,"text":118},{"id":154,"depth":194,"text":155},"Verification","2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z","Unlisted is a third visibility state: the account page works for anyone holding the link, but it is absent from Explore, search and your public profile.",true,"md",{},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account",[209,210,211,212],"what-is-a-trading-widget","what-is-a-verified-track-record","what-is-a-trading-portfolio","what-is-a-prop-firm",{"title":5,"description":203},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-unlisted-account","Unlisted Account","FVRTTzXCzFmko9mbcQK10j8smAzQsA1wr0gslNmswe0",[218,437,623,895],{"id":219,"title":220,"body":221,"category":425,"date":202,"description":426,"draft":204,"extension":205,"meta":427,"navigation":204,"path":82,"related":428,"seo":433,"stem":434,"term":435,"updated":202,"__hash__":436},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-prop-firm.md","What Is a Prop Firm in Trading?",{"type":7,"value":222,"toc":418},[223,226,228,236,239,248,256,259,262,264,272,275,277,306,309,325,327,330,344,362,383,385,411],[10,224,225],{},"A proprietary trading firm — a prop firm — puts its own capital at risk through traders rather than managing money for outside clients. The trader supplies the decisions and receives a share of the profit; the firm supplies the capital and writes the rules that cap its loss. In the retail form that has grown since the 2010s, access comes through a paid evaluation rather than through employment.",[14,227,17],{"id":16},[10,229,230,231,235],{},"The retail model has two stages. A candidate pays a fee to attempt an evaluation on a simulated account of a stated size, reaching a profit target without breaking a risk rule. Passing leads to a ",[63,232,234],{"href":233},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-funded-account","funded account"," under the same rulebook, where realised profit is split between trader and firm.",[10,237,238],{},"Three limits do almost all of the failing, and only one of them is the target.",[240,241,246],"pre",{"className":242,"code":244,"language":245},[243],"language-text","Daily loss limit     = day's opening balance (or equity) x daily %\nStatic total limit   = initial balance x total %\nTrailing total limit = high-water mark x total %\n","text",[22,247,244],{"__ignoreMap":193},[10,249,250,251,255],{},"The ",[63,252,254],{"href":253},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-daily-drawdown-limit","daily loss limit"," resets each session, so it constrains a single day's damage. The total limit is a floor under the account's whole life. Whether that floor is static or trailing changes the rule entirely: a trailing floor rises with every new equity peak, so profits tighten the constraint instead of loosening it, and a trader can be removed while still up on the account.",[10,257,258],{},"Secondary conditions usually include a minimum number of trading days, restrictions around scheduled news, limits on holding through the weekend, and a consistency rule capping how much of total profit may come from one day or trade. Profit splits commonly favour the trader; the figure, the payout cycle and any scaling plan are contract terms.",[10,260,261],{},"A prop firm is not a broker. The account belongs to the firm, the trader has no title to the capital, and most retail programmes simulate a broker feed rather than routing to the market. Which firms are sound, and how a programme is regulated, is not something a glossary can settle: read the contract and check the entity behind it.",[14,263,76],{"id":75},[10,265,266,267,271],{},"The rulebook inverts what most traders optimise for. On a personal account a deep drawdown is survivable if the strategy recovers. Under a prop rulebook, touching the limit ends the account regardless of what would have happened next: path beats outcome, which puts ",[63,268,270],{"href":269},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-position-sizing","position sizing"," and daily loss discipline ahead of entry quality.",[10,273,274],{},"The fee changes the incentive too: a candidate who has paid for an attempt is under pressure to reach a target inside a window, and that pressure produces oversized positions.",[14,276,107],{"id":106},[10,278,279,280,284,285,288,289,292,293,297,298,301,302,305],{},"The drawdown distribution across accounts published on ShowMyTrades shows how binding these limits are. Median deepest ",[63,281,283],{"href":282},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown","drawdown"," is ",[40,286,287],{},"9.7%",". Only ",[40,290,291],{},"38.5%"," of accounts have stayed under 5% ",[63,294,296],{"href":295},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-maximum-drawdown","peak-to-trough"," for their entire life, ",[40,299,300],{},"38.2%"," have gone past 20%, and ",[40,303,304],{},"17.6%"," past 50%. These figures describe the public accounts here with trading history, not traders in general.",[10,307,308],{},"Put plainly: at least 38.2% of these accounts would have breached any total loss limit set at 20% or tighter, and almost every retail rulebook is tighter than 20%. They were trading with no rulebook at all, where a deep drawdown is an inconvenience rather than a termination.",[10,310,311,312,315,316,319,320,324],{},"Running several accounts at once is normal here: ",[40,313,314],{},"699"," users have more than one account connected and ",[40,317,318],{},"429"," trade across more than one broker. ",[63,321,323],{"href":322},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftracking-multiple-accounts-portfolio","Keeping an evaluation, a funded account and a personal account side by side"," is the ordinary case.",[14,326,118],{"id":117},[10,328,329],{},"ShowMyTrades does not run prop-firm programmes and has no module that tracks evaluation rules. What it provides is the evidence a candidate needs in order to document performance.",[10,331,250,332,335,336,339,340,343],{},[40,333,334],{},"Account Stats"," panel shows ",[40,337,338],{},"Drawdown",", measured on equity so floating losses on open positions count, next to ",[40,341,342],{},"DD on Balance",", measured on closed trades only. Most rulebooks measure on equity, so the first is the figure that maps to a limit.",[10,345,250,346,348,349,353,354,357,358,361],{},[40,347,338],{}," view in the charts panel plots, for each day, how far equity sat below the account's running peak balance. That is the shape a ",[350,351,352],"em",{},"total"," or trailing limit reads, not a daily one — for day-level detail, the ",[40,355,356],{},"Calendar"," view of the ",[40,359,360],{},"Monthly Returns"," table shows each individual day's result, and Monthly Returns is also where a consistency rule becomes checkable.",[10,363,364,365,133,371,374,375,378,379,382],{},"The header carries what a firm can check independently: the ",[63,366,368],{"href":367},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record",[40,369,370],{},"Track Record",[40,372,373],{},"Trading Privileges"," badges, green when granted, alongside ",[40,376,377],{},"Real Account"," or ",[40,380,381],{},"Demo Account"," and the account's autotrading share.",[14,384,155],{"id":154},[34,386,387,393,399,405],{},[37,388,389,392],{},[40,390,391],{},"\"Passing an evaluation means the capital is mine.\""," It never is. It remains the firm's, under the same rules, and the account can be closed for a rule breach at any point.",[37,394,395,398],{},[40,396,397],{},"\"A trailing drawdown works like a normal drawdown.\""," It does not. It follows equity upward, so a profitable week can leave less room than the week before it.",[37,400,401,404],{},[40,402,403],{},"\"The profit target is the hard part.\""," The loss limits are. Targets are usually reachable; the limits remove candidates who would have reached them.",[37,406,407,410],{},[40,408,409],{},"\"Simulated capital means simulated results.\""," The decisions and the risk discipline are real, and so is a record of them. Only the fills are not.",[10,412,413,414,72],{},"For how a record like this is read by someone who did not produce it: ",[63,415,417],{"href":416},"\u002Fguides\u002Fverified-vs-unverified-track-records","verified vs unverified track records",{"title":193,"searchDepth":194,"depth":194,"links":419},[420,421,422,423,424],{"id":16,"depth":194,"text":17},{"id":75,"depth":194,"text":76},{"id":106,"depth":194,"text":107},{"id":117,"depth":194,"text":118},{"id":154,"depth":194,"text":155},"Brokers","A prop firm puts its own capital at risk through traders under a rulebook. How evaluations, profit splits and loss limits work, and what real drawdowns show.",{},[429,430,431,432],"what-is-a-funded-account","what-is-a-daily-drawdown-limit","what-is-position-sizing","what-is-a-track-record",{"title":220,"description":426},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-prop-firm","Prop Firm","PzDE4KdbNDkjttAPE6kUyqbcj4czhI_BPUQrAJsKcTg",{"id":438,"title":439,"body":440,"category":611,"date":202,"description":612,"draft":204,"extension":205,"meta":613,"navigation":204,"path":70,"related":614,"seo":619,"stem":620,"term":621,"updated":202,"__hash__":622},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-portfolio.md","What Is a Trading Portfolio? Accounts as One Curve",{"type":7,"value":441,"toc":604},[442,445,447,450,456,468,479,481,484,492,494,508,526,528,546,560,567,569,598],[10,443,444],{},"A trading portfolio is a set of connected accounts merged into a single equity curve, with every statistic recomputed on that curve as though it had always been one account. It is not a summary screen sitting on top of several accounts; it is one account rebuilt from all of their trades.",[14,446,17],{"id":16},[10,448,449],{},"The distinction that matters is between combining the results and combining the data.",[240,451,454],{"className":452,"code":453,"language":245},[243],"Wrong:  portfolio return = (R₁ + R₂ + R₃) \u002F 3\n\nRight:  merge every closed trade and every daily equity point\n        into one curve, then compute TWR, drawdown and the\n        ratios on that curve\n",[22,455,453],{"__ignoreMap":193},[10,457,458,459,463,464,467],{},"The merge happens server-side, and its rules explain most of the surprises. Trades from every selected account are pooled and sorted by close time. Daily balance and equity are summed date by date, and an account that reported nothing that day contributes its last known value, not a zero. Gain is a ",[63,460,462],{"href":461},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-time-weighted-return","time-weighted return"," recomputed on the merged curve, never an average of members. Drawdown is recomputed there too, as equity against the running peak of merged balance. Broker, currency and account name resolve to the shared value when every member agrees, and to ",[40,465,466],{},"Mixed"," when they do not.",[10,469,470,471,473,474,478],{},"Between 1 and 50 accounts go into a portfolio, and a user can hold up to 30; MT4, MT5, cTrader and TradeLocker can mix freely. Currencies are ",[40,472,95],{}," converted: balance, equity and profit are summed as the brokers report them, so a EUR account beside a USD one gives a total that is not money in any currency. ",[63,475,477],{"href":476},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-cent-account","Cent accounts"," are worse — USC is normalised to USD for the label, so the portfolio will not even mark itself Mixed while reporting totals a hundred times too large.",[14,480,76],{"id":75},[10,482,483],{},"Because the three intuitive ways to combine accounts are all wrong. Summing balances rewards you for moving your own money around. Averaging percentages lets +40% on a $500 account cancel −5% on a $50,000 one, when the money says roughly −4.6%. Quoting the best account is survivorship bias applied to yourself.",[10,485,486,487,491],{},"The merged curve also answers what the individual pages cannot: whether the second account diversified anything. A combined drawdown in percent cannot be worse than your deepest single account — a blend cannot fall further than its worst component. Where it lands under that ceiling is decided by ",[63,488,490],{"href":489},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-correlation-risk","correlation"," and little else. Correlated accounts land beside the worst one, and in cash the loss is the sum of all of them.",[14,493,107],{"id":106},[10,495,496,497,133,500,503,504,507],{},"Running several accounts is the normal case on ShowMyTrades: ",[40,498,499],{},"699 users have more than one account",[40,501,502],{},"429 of those hold accounts at more than one broker",". Yet only ",[40,505,506],{},"182 portfolios"," exist platform-wide (August 2026) — a fraction of the people the feature was built for.",[10,509,510,511,133,514,517,518,522,523,525],{},"Correlation is the default, because the accounts are usually automated: across the published accounts with history the ",[40,512,513],{},"median autotrading share is 99%",[40,515,516],{},"53.9% are more than 90% automated",". The same ",[63,519,521],{"href":520},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-expert-advisor","EA"," on three accounts is one strategy with three sets of costs. For scale, median deepest drawdown is ",[40,524,287],{}," and 38.2% of accounts have been more than 20% underwater.",[14,527,118],{"id":117},[10,529,530,531,534,535,538,539,542,543,72],{},"Portfolios live under ",[40,532,533],{},"Dashboard → Portfolios",", built by naming one and ticking accounts from a checkbox list. The page reuses the account layout — stats panel, charts viewer, Monthly Returns, Advanced Statistics, currency pair breakdown, trades table — every figure computed on the merged data. Publishing one produces a public page on the same ",[22,536,537],{},"\u002Faccount\u002F"," path, under a slug generated from the name and prefixed ",[22,540,541],{},"ptf-"," — fixed once created, where an account slug can be edited. Visibility offers the same three states as an account: private, published or ",[63,544,545],{"href":207},"unlisted",[10,547,548,549,555,556,559],{},"One control exists only here: ",[63,550,552],{"href":551},"\u002Fguides\u002Fcustom-analysis-and-filter-presets",[40,553,554],{},"Custom Analysis"," gains an ",[40,557,558],{},"Accounts"," section, one chip per member labelled with the short account ID. Deselect one and every statistic recomputes without it, answering \"what does this look like without the martingale account\" in a click.",[10,561,562,563,566],{},"Two things do not carry over. A ",[63,564,565],{"href":367},"verified track record"," is not shown: it belongs to a single account and its investor password, and the portfolio record does not store the field at all. Terminal Info is requested but the backend has no aggregate to return, so the section stays empty — ping, build and autotrading state stay on the individual account pages.",[14,568,155],{"id":154},[34,570,571,577,583,589],{},[37,572,573,576],{},[40,574,575],{},"\"My portfolio gain should match the average of my accounts.\""," It should not. It is one time-weighted return on one curve, so a large account dominates and a small account with a spectacular percentage barely registers.",[37,578,579,582],{},[40,580,581],{},"\"Adding accounts reduces drawdown.\""," Only if their troughs fall on different dates. Compare dates on each account's drawdown chart, not depths.",[37,584,585,588],{},[40,586,587],{},"\"Shifting money between my own accounts distorts it.\""," Gain will not move: time-weighted return treats a transfer as a balance change, not a return. If both accounts sit in the same portfolio, one side's withdrawal offsets the other's deposit in the merged balance too.",[37,590,591,594,595,597],{},[40,592,593],{},"\"A dead account in the portfolio is harmless.\""," Its last equity is carried forward as a flat line, which dilutes the return and softens the ",[63,596,283],{"href":295}," percentage. Reconnect it or remove it.",[10,599,600,601,72],{},"The build flow, the correlation test and the five ways people flatter themselves are in ",[63,602,603],{"href":322},"the multi-account portfolio guide",{"title":193,"searchDepth":194,"depth":194,"links":605},[606,607,608,609,610],{"id":16,"depth":194,"text":17},{"id":75,"depth":194,"text":76},{"id":106,"depth":194,"text":107},{"id":117,"depth":194,"text":118},{"id":154,"depth":194,"text":155},"Metrics","A portfolio merges several trading accounts into one equity curve, so gain and drawdown are recomputed on the whole thing instead of averaged across accounts.",{},[615,616,617,618],"what-is-time-weighted-return","what-is-correlation-risk","what-is-maximum-drawdown","what-is-an-unlisted-account",{"title":439,"description":612},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-portfolio","Trading Portfolio","Zv3ZB8Usns1vud6prYE4fy7T7XX2Hlb8SPJXWTRXpK4",{"id":624,"title":625,"body":626,"category":887,"date":202,"description":888,"draft":204,"extension":205,"meta":889,"navigation":204,"path":65,"related":890,"seo":891,"stem":892,"term":893,"updated":202,"__hash__":894},"glossary\u002F5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-trading-widget.md","What Is a Trading Widget? Live Embeds Explained",{"type":7,"value":627,"toc":880},[628,631,633,636,701,708,751,761,763,775,782,784,798,815,817,838,841,843,873],[10,629,630],{},"A trading widget is an embeddable view of a live trading account that renders inside somebody else's page. The visitor's browser requests the data from ShowMyTrades as the page loads, down the same path the public account page uses, so no copy of the numbers sits in the middle waiting to be edited.",[14,632,17],{"id":16},[10,634,635],{},"Three formats travel differently, and the difference decides what the reader is actually looking at.",[637,638,639,655],"table",{},[640,641,642],"thead",{},[643,644,645,649,652],"tr",{},[646,647,648],"th",{},"Format",[646,650,651],{},"What it is",[646,653,654],{},"How it updates",[656,657,658,672,688],"tbody",{},[643,659,660,666,669],{},[661,662,663],"td",{},[40,664,665],{},"Interactive iframe",[661,667,668],{},"The widget page rendered inside a frame on your site",[661,670,671],{},"Refetched on every page load",[643,673,674,679,685],{},[661,675,676],{},[40,677,678],{},"Dynamic Image",[661,680,681,682],{},"A PNG or SVG served through ",[22,683,684],{},"\u002Fapi\u002Fwidget-image\u002F…",[661,686,687],{},"Rebuilt on the backend after each data sync; browsers cache it 15 minutes",[643,689,690,695,698],{},[661,691,692],{},[40,693,694],{},"Static Image",[661,696,697],{},"A file you download once",[661,699,700],{},"Never",[10,702,703,704,707],{},"Only the iframe is a live embed. It offers ",[40,705,706],{},"seven types",": Stats Card (400×212), Stats Inline (750×80), Equity Curve, Monthly Returns, Currency Pair Stats, Trade History Table and Complete Dashboard. The two Stats types read balance, equity, gain and drawdown straight from stored account metadata, which is why they load fast and keep a fixed height.",[10,709,710,711,714,715,129,718,129,721,129,724,129,727,129,730,129,733,129,735,129,738,129,741,133,744,747,748,750],{},"The Dynamic Image path is not interactive, but nor is it frozen: the endpoint proxies a file the backend rebuilds whenever the account syncs new data. ",[40,712,713],{},"Eleven types"," exist — ",[22,716,717],{},"stats",[22,719,720],{},"stats-inline",[22,722,723],{},"growth-daily",[22,725,726],{},"growth-trade",[22,728,729],{},"balance",[22,731,732],{},"profit",[22,734,283],{},[22,736,737],{},"growth-mini",[22,739,740],{},"summary",[22,742,743],{},"monthly",[22,745,746],{},"currency-pair"," — each in light, dark or transparent, as PNG or SVG, with ",[22,749,726],{}," forced to PNG. The Static Image is the only genuinely frozen option: it is the moment you clicked download, and it stays that moment forever.",[10,752,753,754,757,758,760],{},"Every variable-height widget — all but the two Stats types — ships with a few lines of JavaScript that measure the rendered height and post it to the parent page. 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The widget shows the flattering part; the link exposes the drawdown, the red months and the costs.",[10,776,777,778,781],{},"Renaming does not break the embed: ",[63,779,780],{"href":190},"retired slugs"," are resolved by both the iframe endpoint and the image proxy before either gives up. Slugs change at most once every 30 days, with a one-hour correction window.",[14,783,107],{"id":106},[10,785,786,787,790,791,72],{},"Public account pages on ShowMyTrades have been visited ",[40,788,789],{},"94,710 times"," (August 2026). That is the traffic an embed buys: readers who saw a claim elsewhere and came to check what it omitted. The scepticism is warranted — of the published accounts with history, ",[40,792,793,794,797],{},"38.2% have been ",[63,795,796],{"href":295},"more than 20% underwater"," and 17.6% more than 50%",[10,799,800,801,133,806,809,810,133,812,814],{},"The click is worth more when there is something to find. 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You pick format, type, a width in pixels or percent and a theme; the Equity Curve and Complete Dashboard add colour pickers and series switches for all five chart groups. Then copy the iframe HTML, or the HTML, Markdown and BBCode snippets on the image path.",[10,839,840],{},"Privacy carries into the embed. All seven Privacy Options in account settings — Open Trades, Closed Trades, Account Number, Lots, Trade Comments, Stop Loss \u002F Take Profit, Trade Notes — are passed to the Trade History widget, so a column hidden on your public page is hidden inside the frame as well.",[14,842,155],{"id":154},[34,844,845,851,857,867],{},[37,846,847,850],{},[40,848,849],{},"\"A widget is just a nicer screenshot.\""," The iframe refetches on every page load. Nothing about it is a stored copy.",[37,852,853,856],{},[40,854,855],{},"\"The image version can be edited like a screenshot.\""," The Dynamic Image is regenerated server-side from your data. 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Two separate questions hide inside the phrase, and most arguments about verification come from confusing them.",[14,904,17],{"id":16},[10,906,907,908,129,912,916,917,921,922,926],{},"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 ",[63,909,911],{"href":910},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-mt4-investor-password","MT4 investor password",[63,913,915],{"href":914},"\u002Fctrader-account-tracking","cTrader OAuth2 authorisation",", or the ",[63,918,920],{"href":919},"\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 ",[63,923,925],{"href":924},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-myfxbook","Myfxbook"," connect MetaTrader accounts the same way.",[240,928,931],{"className":929,"code":930,"language":245},[243],"broker server → read-only connection → ShowMyTrades → public page\n                no editable step anywhere in the chain\n",[22,932,930],{"__ignoreMap":193},[10,934,935],{},"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.",[10,937,938],{},[939,940],"img",{"alt":941,"src":942},"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",[10,944,945],{},[350,946,947],{},"A record can pass one and fail the other, which is why they are counted separately.",[14,949,76],{"id":75},[10,951,952,953,955,956,960],{},"Everything downstream of the connection is arithmetic. If the inputs can be edited, the profit factor, the ",[63,954,283],{"href":282}," and the ",[63,957,959],{"href":958},"\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.",[10,962,963],{},"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.",[14,965,107],{"id":106},[10,967,968,969,133,972,975],{},"Verification is opt-in and requires effort, and the numbers reflect that. Across the 10,000+ accounts published on ShowMyTrades (August 2026), only ",[40,970,971],{},"65 carry Track Record Verified",[40,973,974],{},"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.",[10,977,978,979,284,981,984,985,987],{},"Verified does not mean good. Across the public accounts with trading history, median ",[63,980,462],{"href":461},[40,982,983],{},"+3.2%",", 63.0% are positive, and the median deepest drawdown is ",[40,986,287],{}," — 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.",[14,989,118],{"id":117},[10,991,992,993,996,997,133,999,1001,1002,378,1004,1006],{},"Both badges sit in the ",[40,994,995],{},"Certifications"," group in the header of every account page, above the numbers: ",[40,998,370],{},[40,1000,373],{},", green when granted and grey when not, each with a tooltip explaining what it certifies for that platform. The same group also shows ",[40,1003,377],{},[40,1005,381],{},", derived from the broker server rather than self-declared.",[10,1008,1009,1010,1013,1014,1017],{},"Verification is managed in the account settings, where the ",[40,1011,1012],{},"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 ",[40,1015,1016],{},"Complete Dashboard"," widget, which embeds the account header, so an embed on someone else's site carries its own provenance.",[14,1019,155],{"id":154},[34,1021,1022,1033,1039,1045],{},[37,1023,1024,1027,1028,1032],{},[40,1025,1026],{},"A link to a tracking site is not verification."," ",[63,1029,1031],{"href":1030},"\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.",[37,1034,1035,1038],{},[40,1036,1037],{},"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.",[37,1040,1041,1044],{},[40,1042,1043],{},"Verified is not the same as profitable."," The badge certifies provenance and nothing else. Read gain and drawdown together afterwards.",[37,1046,1047,1050],{},[40,1048,1049],{},"A verified demo account is still a demo account."," Demo fills are optimistic in exactly the conditions where live fills hurt.",[10,1052,1053,1054,72],{},"The procedure for both badges, step by step: ",[63,1055,1057],{"href":1056},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-verify-your-account","how to verify your trading account",{"title":193,"searchDepth":194,"depth":194,"links":1059},[1060,1061,1062,1063,1064],{"id":16,"depth":194,"text":17},{"id":75,"depth":194,"text":76},{"id":106,"depth":194,"text":107},{"id":117,"depth":194,"text":118},{"id":154,"depth":194,"text":155},"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,{},[1069,1070,1071],"what-is-an-mt4-investor-password","what-is-myfxbook","what-is-drawdown",{"title":897,"description":1065},"5.glossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-verified-track-record","Verified Track Record","im3JV0qh8wz_ZbgStl23aUhUUL79OEa_VDXyYyMF254",1787415694798]