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Verified vs Unverified Trading Results - What Makes Performance Trustworthy in 2026
Professional Standards

Verified vs Unverified Trading Results - What Makes Performance Trustworthy in 2026

What separates a track record you can trust from one you cannot, the standards professionals use, and how to build credibility that survives scrutiny.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Verify Your Trading Account
Verification Guide

How to Verify Your Trading Account

Complete guide to obtaining Track Record Verified and Trading Privileges Verified certifications on ShowMyTrades

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How to Read a Trading Account Dashboard - Every Metric Explained 2026
Platform Guide

How to Read a Trading Account Dashboard - Every Metric Explained 2026

Gain, drawdown, profit factor, swap: what every number on a public account page measures, and what normal looks like across thousands of real accounts.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Time-Weighted Return Explained: Why Deposits Cannot Inflate Your Results 2026
Metrics

Time-Weighted Return Explained: Why Deposits Cannot Inflate Your Results 2026

A $10,000 deposit doubles a balance without doubling any skill: how time-weighted return strips funding out, how it differs from Abs. Gain, and when to trust each.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Maximum Drawdown Explained: The Number That Tells You What It Felt Like 2026
Risk

Maximum Drawdown Explained: The Number That Tells You What It Felt Like 2026

Two accounts both finished up 40%: only one was survivable. Here is what maximum drawdown measures, the recovery maths, and what thousands of real accounts show.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Reading a Monthly Returns Table: What Twelve Cells Reveal About a Strategy 2026
Reporting

Reading a Monthly Returns Table: What Twelve Cells Reveal About a Strategy 2026

Twelve cells a year say more than the yearly total: why a row with no red month is a warning, what the empty cells mean, and how much one month can prove.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Audit What Your Broker Really Costs You 2026
Costs

How to Audit What Your Broker Really Costs You 2026

Spread, commission and swap decide whether a profitable strategy pays you. Here is how to measure each one per lot, and compare two brokers on the same strategy.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Cost Percentage: How Much of Your Gross Profit the Broker Keeps 2026
Costs

Cost Percentage: How Much of Your Gross Profit the Broker Keeps 2026

Commissions and swap come out of your gross profit, not out of thin air. Compute the ratio from four fields on your account page and see what the broker keeps.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Swap and the Carry Trade: The Cost That Bleeds While the Chart Looks Flat 2026
Costs

Swap and the Carry Trade: The Cost That Bleeds While the Chart Looks Flat 2026

Swap is the cost nobody screenshots: what it is, how triple Wednesday works, why 86.3% of our public accounts with swap activity pay it, and how to price a hold.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Volume Analysis: What Your Lot Sizes Say About Your Risk 2026
Analytics

Volume Analysis: What Your Lot Sizes Say About Your Risk 2026

Lot size is the one number you choose before the market decides anything. Read it as a risk fingerprint: martingale signatures, fixed-lot drift, sizing done right.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Custom Analysis: Slice Your Trade History Until It Tells the Truth 2026
Product

Custom Analysis: Slice Your Trade History Until It Tells the Truth 2026

Filter your trade history by symbol, magic number, hour or duration, recalculate every statistic on the subset, and save the view as a reusable preset.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Embed Your Verified Results Anywhere: The Widget Guide 2026
Product

Embed Your Verified Results Anywhere: The Widget Guide 2026

Seven interactive widgets, eleven auto-updating images, one paste of HTML: how to put a broker-verified track record on your own site, forum or sales page.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Your Public Trading Profile: Slugs, Redirects and What Visitors See 2026
Product

Your Public Trading Profile: Slugs, Redirects and What Visitors See 2026

Private, published or unlisted: what your public trading page exposes, what it never shows, and how to change your URL without breaking shared links or widgets.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Find Real Trading Accounts Worth Studying 2026
Community

How to Find Real Trading Accounts Worth Studying 2026

Explore lists public accounts by recency, not by rank. Here is the method for choosing which ones deserve an hour of study, and the five numbers that decide it.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Running Several Accounts: Portfolio Tracking Without Fooling Yourself 2026
Portfolio

Running Several Accounts: Portfolio Tracking Without Fooling Yourself 2026

You run four accounts and no screen tells you what you actually earned or risked. How portfolio aggregation really works, and where it quietly flatters you.
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ShowMyTrades Team

What Third-Party Verification Actually Proves (And What It Does Not) 2026
Trust

What Third-Party Verification Actually Proves (And What It Does Not) 2026

Two badges answer two different questions: is the data real, and does the publisher own the account. Here is what each proves, and the four things neither can.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Magic Numbers: How to Separate Your Strategies Inside One Account 2026
Automation

Magic Numbers: How to Separate Your Strategies Inside One Account 2026

Three EAs, one equity curve, one total. Here is how magic numbers split them apart, how to label each one, and how to find the strategy quietly losing money.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Cent Accounts: Why the Numbers Look Enormous and What They Really Mean 2026
Brokers

Cent Accounts: Why the Numbers Look Enormous and What They Really Mean 2026

A cent account shows 10,000 when the trader deposited $100. How the denomination works, why lot sizes scale with it, and which metrics it cannot distort.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Same Strategy, Two Brokers, Different Results: How to Run the Comparison 2026
Brokers

Same Strategy, Two Brokers, Different Results: How to Run the Comparison 2026

One strategy, two brokers, two different curves. How to run the accounts in parallel and split the gap into sizing, cost, price quality and execution latency.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Spot Fake EA Results Before You Buy 2026
Due Diligence

How to Spot Fake EA Results Before You Buy 2026

EA sales pages show backtests, not track records. Learn to read the gap: curve fitting, tick quality, lot progression, account resets, and a ten-minute buyer check.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Your Win Rate Is Lying to You: What Real Accounts Show 2026
Metrics

Your Win Rate Is Lying to You: What Real Accounts Show 2026

Across the public accounts the median win rate is 68.8% and the median profit factor only 1.28. The arithmetic behind that gap, and how to check your own.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How Long Before a Track Record Means Anything? 2026
Due Diligence

How Long Before a Track Record Means Anything? 2026

Three green months is not a track record. The arithmetic of sample size, why maximum drawdown can only grow, and the minimums to apply before believing a curve.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Show Your MT4 or MT5 Trading Results on Your Website
Product

How to Show Your MT4 or MT5 Trading Results on Your Website

Put the live equity curve, statistics and trades of a MetaTrader 4 or 5 account on your own site in about ten minutes: connect read-only, publish, paste one snippet. Free.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Show Your cTrader Results on Your Website
Product

How to Show Your cTrader Results on Your Website

Put the live equity curve and statistics of a cTrader account on your own site: authorise once with your cTrader ID, publish, paste one snippet. Nothing to install, free.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Add Live Trading Results to WordPress (No Plugin)
Product

How to Add Live Trading Results to WordPress (No Plugin)

Show the live equity curve and statistics of your MT4, MT5, cTrader or TradeLocker account on a WordPress site with one Custom HTML block. Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi and the classic editor.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Embed Live Trading Results on Wix, Webflow, Squarespace or Shopify
Product

Embed Live Trading Results on Wix, Webflow, Squarespace or Shopify

Where to paste a live trading widget in each website builder: the exact element in Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify, Framer, Ghost, Notion, Google Sites and Carrd, and the one setting each of them gets wrong.
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ShowMyTrades Team

A Myfxbook Widget Alternative: Live, Free, and With No Ads Behind It
Product

A Myfxbook Widget Alternative: Live, Free, and With No Ads Behind It

Looking for an alternative to the Myfxbook widget for your website? Seven interactive widgets and eleven self-updating images for MT4, MT5, cTrader and TradeLocker accounts, free, linking to a page with no adverts.
ShowMyTrades Team

ShowMyTrades Team

How to Show Live EA Results on Your Sales Page
Product

How to Show Live EA Results on Your Sales Page

A buyer of an Expert Advisor trusts a live account more than any backtest. How to put a live, checkable track record on the page where you sell your EA: which account, which widget, what to hide and what never to hide.
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ShowMyTrades Team

Trading Results in a Forum Signature, Email or Chat: Images That Update Themselves
Product

Trading Results in a Forum Signature, Email or Chat: Images That Update Themselves

Where code is not allowed, use an image that redraws itself: how to put live trading statistics in a forum signature with BBCode, in an email signature, a GitHub README or a chat, and what each place does to the image.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Build a Track Record Page for Your Trading Website
Product

How to Build a Track Record Page for Your Trading Website

A track record page is the one page a serious visitor looks for. What to put on it, in what order, with a live widget instead of a screenshot: a complete outline you can copy.
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ShowMyTrades Team

How to Show Multiple Trading Accounts on One Page
Product

How to Show Multiple Trading Accounts on One Page

Several accounts, several EAs or several brokers on a single web page: a live comparison table with one row per account, side-by-side charts, or one combined curve. With the code.
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ShowMyTrades Team

The Complete Guide to Tracking Your Trading Performance 2026
Trading Analytics

The Complete Guide to Tracking Your Trading Performance 2026

Most traders have no idea if they are actually good. The metrics that matter, how to read them, and what real accounts show about each one.
ShowMyTrades Team

ShowMyTrades Team

The Only 3 Forex Calculators Every Trader Actually Needs (+ 9 Bonus Tools)
Trading Tools

The Only 3 Forex Calculators Every Trader Actually Needs (+ 9 Bonus Tools)

The three calculators professionals use before every trade, plus nine that give you an edge, and the arithmetic behind each one.
ShowMyTrades Team

ShowMyTrades Team

The Ultimate Guide to Verifying Trading Performance Claims 2026
Due Diligence

The Ultimate Guide to Verifying Trading Performance Claims 2026

Before you pay for signals, EAs or managed accounts, use these forensic checks to tell a real track record from a fabricated one.
ShowMyTrades Team

ShowMyTrades Team