[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":676},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fguides\u002Freading-a-trading-account-dashboard":3,"\u002Fguides\u002Freading-a-trading-account-dashboard-surround":667},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"badge":12,"body":14,"date":655,"description":656,"draft":657,"extension":658,"image":659,"meta":661,"navigation":662,"path":663,"seo":664,"stem":665,"updated":655,"__hash__":666},"posts\u002F3.guides\u002F12.reading-a-trading-account-dashboard.md","How to Read a Trading Account Dashboard - Every Metric Explained {YEAR}",[7],{"name":8,"to":9,"avatar":10},"ShowMyTrades Team","https:\u002F\u002Fshowmytrades.com",{"src":11},"\u002Ficon-512.png",{"label":13},"Platform Guide",{"type":15,"value":16,"toc":633},"minimark",[17,22,34,37,44,48,51,63,74,80,83,90,95,99,102,107,119,122,126,133,140,144,147,151,154,211,219,225,263,270,276,281,285,288,333,337,344,347,368,372,375,381,392,398,404,414,420,426,432,436,446,449,455,460,463,467,470,473,477,480,512,515,519,545,549,555,561,567,573,579,583,612,615,626],[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"two-questions-thirty-numbers","📊 Two Questions, Thirty Numbers",[23,24,25,26,30,31],"p",{},"Open any public account page on ShowMyTrades and you are looking at a screen built to answer two questions: ",[27,28,29],"strong",{},"is this real",", and ",[27,32,33],{},"is it any good?",[23,35,36],{},"Everything else is detail. But the detail is where people get fooled — because most traders read a track record the way they read a receipt, top to bottom, and stop at the big green percentage. That number is the least informative thing on the page.",[23,38,39,40,43],{},"This guide goes module by module through a live account page and explains what each number actually measures, which ones can be inflated, and what the normal range looks like. Not \"normal\" from a textbook: normal measured across the ",[27,41,42],{},"public accounts on ShowMyTrades that have trading history",", out of 10,000+ connected accounts and more than 15.4 million synchronised trades (August 2026).",[18,45,47],{"id":46},"️-start-at-the-header-not-at-the-numbers","🛡️ Start at the Header, Not at the Numbers",[23,49,50],{},"Before a single metric matters, you need to know whether the data is trustworthy. The header carries three things worth more than any statistic below it.",[23,52,53,56,57,62],{},[27,54,55],{},"Track Record Verified."," The data comes straight from the broker through a read-only connection, not from a form someone filled in. Without this badge you are reading a claim, not a record. ",[58,59,61],"a",{"href":60},"\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-verify-your-account","How the verification works step by step",".",[23,64,65,68,69,73],{},[27,66,67],{},"Trading Privileges Verified."," The person publishing the page proved they actually control the account, by executing an action only the owner could execute. It answers a different question than the first badge: not \"are these trades real\" but \"are they ",[70,71,72],"em",{},"this person's"," trades\".",[23,75,76,79],{},[27,77,78],{},"Real, Demo or Contest."," Pulled from the broker, not self-declared. A flawless demo curve is a simulation of skill, not evidence of it — and demo fills are optimistic in exactly the conditions where live fills hurt.",[23,81,82],{},"If the account is not verified, stop here. Everything downstream is unverifiable arithmetic on unverifiable inputs.",[23,84,85],{},[86,87],"img",{"alt":88,"src":89},"Four levels of proof behind a track record: a screenshot anyone can edit, a manual upload where the trader types the numbers, a read-only sync where the broker sends the data, and a sync plus proof the publisher controls the account","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Flevels-of-evidence.svg",[23,91,92],{},[70,93,94],{},"The two badges in the header are what move a page from the second step to the fourth.",[18,96,98],{"id":97},"the-kpi-row-gain-is-two-different-numbers","📈 The KPI Row: Gain Is Two Different Numbers",[23,100,101],{},"The stats panel shows two returns, and confusing them is the single most common misreading on the platform.",[103,104,106],"h3",{"id":105},"gain-time-weighted-return","Gain (Time-Weighted Return)",[23,108,109,110,114,115,118],{},"TWR ",[58,111,113],{"href":112},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftime-weighted-return-explained","compounds the daily returns of the equity curve",", so ",[27,116,117],{},"deposits and withdrawals cannot move it",". Add $10,000 to a $10,000 account and your balance doubles while TWR stays exactly where it was — because you did not trade your way there.",[23,120,121],{},"This is the number to compare between two traders. It is also the number a screenshot cannot fake, because it is derived from the whole curve rather than from two endpoints.",[103,123,125],{"id":124},"abs-gain-absolute-gain","Abs. Gain (Absolute Gain)",[23,127,128,132],{},[58,129,131],{"href":130},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-absolute-gain","Net closed profit and loss relative to total deposits",". It answers \"how much money did this account actually make against what was put in\" — useful, but sensitive to funding pattern in a way TWR is not.",[23,134,135,136,139],{},"When they disagree, ",[27,137,138],{},"believe TWR",". A large gap between the two is usually the signature of an account that has been topped up repeatedly, sometimes to bury a drawdown that would otherwise show.",[103,141,143],{"id":142},"highest-avg-daily-avg-monthly","Highest, Avg Daily %, Avg Monthly %",[23,145,146],{},"Peak balance and averaged returns. Treat averages with suspicion on short histories: a single outlier week can dominate a monthly average until there are enough months for the average to mean anything.",[18,148,150],{"id":149},"drawdown-two-numbers-and-the-honest-one-is-the-bigger-one","📉 Drawdown: Two Numbers, and the Honest One Is the Bigger One",[23,152,153],{},"ShowMyTrades shows both, and the difference between them tells you something about the strategy.",[155,156,157,173],"table",{},[158,159,160],"thead",{},[161,162,163,167,170],"tr",{},[164,165,166],"th",{},"Metric",[164,168,169],{},"What it measures",[164,171,172],{},"Why it matters",[174,175,176,194],"tbody",{},[161,177,178,184,191],{},[179,180,181],"td",{},[27,182,183],{},"Drawdown",[179,185,186,187,190],{},"Largest peak-to-trough fall in ",[27,188,189],{},"equity"," (balance + floating P&L)",[179,192,193],{},"Includes open losing positions. This is the real pain",[161,195,196,201,208],{},[179,197,198],{},[27,199,200],{},"DD on Balance",[179,202,203,204,207],{},"Largest fall in ",[27,205,206],{},"closed balance"," only",[179,209,210],{},"Ignores floating losses on trades still open",[23,212,213,214,218],{},"A grid or martingale account can hold a beautiful ",[58,215,217],{"href":216},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-drawdown-on-balance","balance drawdown"," while equity is 60% underwater, simply by refusing to close losers. When the two numbers diverge sharply, the equity figure is the true one — and the divergence itself is the red flag.",[23,220,221,224],{},[27,222,223],{},"What normal looks like."," Across the public accounts with trading history:",[155,226,227,237],{},[158,228,229],{},[161,230,231,234],{},[164,232,233],{},"Deepest drawdown reached",[164,235,236],{},"Share of accounts",[174,238,239,247,255],{},[161,240,241,244],{},[179,242,243],{},"Under 5%",[179,245,246],{},"38.5%",[161,248,249,252],{},[179,250,251],{},"Over 20%",[179,253,254],{},"38.2%",[161,256,257,260],{},[179,258,259],{},"Over 50%",[179,261,262],{},"17.6%",[23,264,265,266,269],{},"Median: ",[27,267,268],{},"9.7%",". Nearly one account in five has lost more than half its peak value. So when a signal seller advertises 300% gains with a 4% maximum drawdown, they are not claiming to be talented — they are claiming to sit outside a distribution built from millions of real trades. That claim needs evidence, not a screenshot.",[23,271,272],{},[86,273],{"alt":274,"src":275},"Deepest drawdown reached across public ShowMyTrades accounts: 38.5% stayed under 5%, 23.3% fell between 5% and 20%, 20.6% between 20% and 50%, and 17.6% went past 50%, with a median of 9.7%","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fdrawdown-distribution.svg",[23,277,278],{},[70,279,280],{},"Read any advertised drawdown against this shape first, then ask what gain it was supposedly paired with.",[18,282,284],{"id":283},"the-charts-five-views-of-the-same-money","📊 The Charts: Five Views of the Same Money",[23,286,287],{},"The chart module offers five views, and each one is designed to expose something the others hide.",[289,290,291,303,312,318,324],"ul",{},[292,293,294,297,298,302],"li",{},[27,295,296],{},"Equity Curve"," — ",[58,299,301],{"href":300},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-an-equity-curve","balance and equity over time",". Look for the gap between the two lines: persistent separation means positions are being held underwater.",[292,304,305,308,309,62],{},[27,306,307],{},"Growth"," — cumulative percentage growth. The shape matters more than the endpoint. Real curves are jagged; a straight diagonal line usually means a martingale that has not blown up ",[70,310,311],{},"yet",[292,313,314,317],{},[27,315,316],{},"Growth by Trade"," — the same curve indexed by trade number instead of by date. Removes the flattering effect of long idle periods.",[292,319,320,323],{},[27,321,322],{},"Profit Curve"," — cumulative closed P&L, no funding noise.",[292,325,326,328,329,332],{},[27,327,183],{}," — the underwater plot. How deep, how often, and above all ",[27,330,331],{},"how long",". Recovery time is the metric that decides whether a strategy is investable, and it is invisible on every other chart.",[18,334,336],{"id":335},"️-monthly-returns-where-consistency-shows-up","🗓️ Monthly Returns: Where Consistency Shows Up",[23,338,339,343],{},[58,340,342],{"href":341},"\u002Fguides\u002Fmonthly-returns-table-explained","The monthly table"," is the fastest lie detector on the page. Twelve or twenty-four cells, each green or red, plus a yearly total.",[23,345,346],{},"Three things to read here:",[348,349,350,356,362],"ol",{},[292,351,352,355],{},[27,353,354],{},"Red months."," A record with no red months at all, over a long history, is not evidence of skill — it is evidence that losses are being hidden somewhere, usually in open positions.",[292,357,358,361],{},[27,359,360],{},"Gaps."," \"No Activity\" cells break the story. Why did trading stop? A pause after a heavy loss is the most common answer, and it is the one nobody volunteers.",[292,363,364,367],{},[27,365,366],{},"The worst month."," Not the best. The best month tells you what happened when everything worked; the worst tells you what will happen again.",[18,369,371],{"id":370},"advanced-statistics-the-ones-that-are-hard-to-fake","🔬 Advanced Statistics: The Ones That Are Hard to Fake",[23,373,374],{},"Below the fold sit the numbers that separate a professional record from a lucky streak.",[23,376,377,380],{},[27,378,379],{},"Profit Factor"," — the sum of the winning trades divided by the sum of the losing ones. On ShowMyTrades swap and commission are folded into each trade before it is counted, so the figure you read is already net of costs. Below 1.0 the account loses money by construction. Between 1.2 and 2.0 is a working strategy. Above 3.0 on a long history is rare enough to warrant a second look at the trade list, because it is often produced by a handful of enormous winners that will not repeat.",[23,382,383,386,387,391],{},[27,384,385],{},"Sharpe Ratio"," — return per unit of volatility. Useful for comparing two accounts with similar returns: the one with the higher Sharpe got there with less turbulence. It cannot tell upside volatility from downside, which is the objection the ",[58,388,390],{"href":389},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-the-sortino-ratio","Sortino ratio"," answers.",[23,393,394,397],{},[27,395,396],{},"Expectancy"," — the average outcome of a single trade, shown in pips and in account currency. This is the number that tells you whether the edge is real: a positive expectancy repeated thousands of times is a business, a positive win rate is not.",[23,399,400,403],{},[27,401,402],{},"Standard Deviation"," — dispersion of returns. Low and steady beats high and spectacular for anyone who has to live through it.",[23,405,406,297,409,413],{},[27,407,408],{},"Z-Score and Z-Score (Probability)",[58,410,412],{"href":411},"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-a-z-score-in-trading","whether wins and losses cluster more than chance would predict",". Strongly negative streaks are the fingerprint of averaging-down systems.",[23,415,416,419],{},[27,417,418],{},"AHPR vs GHPR"," — arithmetic and geometric mean return per period. GHPR is always the lower and always the honest one, because it is what compounding actually delivers. A wide gap between them means volatile returns that compound worse than the average suggests.",[23,421,422,425],{},[27,423,424],{},"Win Rate, Longs Won, Shorts Won"," — a high win rate means nothing on its own; paired with Avg Win and Avg Loss it means everything. A 90% win rate with an average loss nine times the average win is a losing system with excellent optics.",[23,427,428,431],{},[27,429,430],{},"Avg Trade Length"," — consistency with the claimed strategy. A \"swing trading system\" whose average trade lasts 40 seconds is not what it says it is.",[18,433,435],{"id":434},"the-cost-block-what-the-broker-took","💸 The Cost Block: What the Broker Took",[23,437,438,441,442,445],{},[27,439,440],{},"Total Commissions"," and ",[27,443,444],{},"Total Swap Paid"," are shown as absolute figures, and they are the two lines most trading platforms quietly omit.",[23,447,448],{},"They matter for a reason that has nothing to do with curiosity: a strategy can be profitable gross and unprofitable net, and the gap belongs entirely to the broker. High-frequency systems live or die here. Overnight-holding systems die on swap, sometimes in complete silence — a carry-negative position can bleed for months while the chart looks flat.",[23,450,451],{},[86,452],{"alt":453,"src":454},"Waterfall showing gross profit reduced step by step by spread, commission and swap down to the net figure that reaches the account","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fgross-to-net.svg",[23,456,457],{},[70,458,459],{},"Two traders running identical trades keep different amounts of this bar, and the difference is their broker.",[23,461,462],{},"If you are comparing two accounts running the same strategy, the difference in these two numbers is the difference between their brokers, not between their traders.",[18,464,466],{"id":465},"currency-pair-breakdown","🌍 Currency Pair Breakdown",[23,468,469],{},"Profit and trade count per symbol, split long and short, with won and lost counts.",[23,471,472],{},"The question to ask is concentration: if 80% of the profit comes from one pair, the track record documents one market condition, not a strategy. And if the profitable pair is the one that trended for the whole period, you are reading a directional bet with extra steps.",[18,474,476],{"id":475},"️-terminal-info-the-module-nobody-else-shows","🖥️ Terminal Info: The Module Nobody Else Shows",[23,478,479],{},"This is where ShowMyTrades diverges from every other tracking platform. The account page reports the live state of the terminal itself:",[289,481,482,491,500,506],{},[292,483,484,441,487,490],{},[27,485,486],{},"Ping",[27,488,489],{},"Retransmission"," — connection latency and packet retransmission to the trade server. Bad numbers here mean slippage that no strategy can trade around.",[292,492,493,441,496,499],{},[27,494,495],{},"Terminal build",[27,497,498],{},"Memory"," — the actual environment the strategy is running in.",[292,501,502,505],{},[27,503,504],{},"Auto trading: allowed or blocked"," — whether the EA is permitted to execute at all.",[292,507,508,511],{},[27,509,510],{},"DLL imports"," — whether the terminal is allowed to call external code.",[23,513,514],{},"Why publish this? Because \"the EA made 40% last year\" and \"the EA made 40% last year on a terminal with 220 ms ping and retransmissions\" are two different statements, and only one of them is reproducible on your setup.",[18,516,518],{"id":517},"️-four-ways-people-misread-these-pages","⚠️ Four Ways People Misread These Pages",[348,520,521,527,533,539],{},[292,522,523,526],{},[27,524,525],{},"Reading gain without drawdown."," 60% in a year means one thing after a 5% drawdown and something entirely different after a 45% one. Always read them as a pair.",[292,528,529,532],{},[27,530,531],{},"Trusting a young account."," Three profitable months is a sample, not a track record. 63.0% of our public accounts show a positive TWR — over a short enough window, coin flips look like edges.",[292,534,535,538],{},[27,536,537],{},"Ignoring the equity\u002Fbalance gap."," The single most reliable sign of a hidden loss.",[292,540,541,544],{},[27,542,543],{},"Comparing absolute currency amounts."," $50,000 profit on an undisclosed balance says nothing. Percentages and drawdown are comparable; dollars are theatre.",[18,546,548],{"id":547},"faq","❓ FAQ",[23,550,551,554],{},[27,552,553],{},"Why is my Gain different from my broker's statement?","\nYour broker reports absolute balance change, which includes deposits and withdrawals. Gain here is time-weighted, so funding movements are stripped out. It is the stricter measure, and the only fair one for comparison.",[23,556,557,560],{},[27,558,559],{},"Which drawdown number should I quote?","\nThe equity one, always. It is the larger and more honest figure, and any professional reading your record will look for it.",[23,562,563,566],{},[27,564,565],{},"Can a trader hide bad months by disconnecting?","\nNo. The connection is continuous and gaps are visible on the page. A missing period is itself information, which is exactly why unverified records are worth so little.",[23,568,569,572],{},[27,570,571],{},"Is a 90% win rate good?","\nOn its own, no. Check Avg Win against Avg Loss and Expectancy. High win rates are the easiest metric to engineer and the least predictive of future results.",[23,574,575,578],{},[27,576,577],{},"What does a healthy account actually look like?","\nJagged equity curve, red months present and survived, drawdown in the single digits or low teens, profit factor between roughly 1.2 and 2.0, costs disclosed, and at least twelve months of history. Boring, in other words.",[18,580,582],{"id":581},"related-guides","🔗 Related Guides",[289,584,585,592,599,606],{},[292,586,587,591],{},[58,588,590],{"href":589},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftracking-trading-performance","The complete guide to tracking your trading performance"," — which metrics to monitor and why",[292,593,594,598],{},[58,595,597],{"href":596},"\u002Fguides\u002Fverified-vs-unverified-track-records","Verified vs unverified track records"," — what makes performance data trustworthy",[292,600,601,605],{},[58,602,604],{"href":603},"\u002Fguides\u002Fverifying-trading-performance-claims","How to verify trading performance claims"," — the forensic checklist before you pay anyone",[292,607,608,611],{},[58,609,610],{"href":60},"How to verify your trading account"," — get both badges on your own account",[613,614],"hr",{},[23,616,617,620,621,625],{},[27,618,619],{},"Read a real one now."," Every account page linked from ",[58,622,624],{"href":623},"\u002Fexplore","Explore"," is live, broker-synced and public — including the ones with drawdowns their owners would rather not advertise. That is the point.",[23,627,628,632],{},[58,629,631],{"href":630},"\u002Fsignup","Connect your account free"," and your page looks exactly like the ones you just learned to read.",{"title":634,"searchDepth":635,"depth":635,"links":636},"",2,[637,638,639,645,646,647,648,649,650,651,652,653,654],{"id":20,"depth":635,"text":21},{"id":46,"depth":635,"text":47},{"id":97,"depth":635,"text":98,"children":640},[641,643,644],{"id":105,"depth":642,"text":106},3,{"id":124,"depth":642,"text":125},{"id":142,"depth":642,"text":143},{"id":149,"depth":635,"text":150},{"id":283,"depth":635,"text":284},{"id":335,"depth":635,"text":336},{"id":370,"depth":635,"text":371},{"id":434,"depth":635,"text":435},{"id":465,"depth":635,"text":466},{"id":475,"depth":635,"text":476},{"id":517,"depth":635,"text":518},{"id":547,"depth":635,"text":548},{"id":581,"depth":635,"text":582},"2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z","Gain, drawdown, profit factor, swap: what every number on a public account page measures, and what normal looks like across thousands of real accounts.",false,"md",{"src":660},"\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fdashboard-guide-hero.svg",{},true,"\u002Fguides\u002Freading-a-trading-account-dashboard",{"title":5,"description":656},"3.guides\u002F12.reading-a-trading-account-dashboard","Iu2QAgVuOcHoTR4SnNZmSZfOeK2lRzLrQ9sitNGcYTY",[668,672],{"title":669,"path":60,"stem":670,"description":671,"children":-1},"How to Verify Your Trading Account","3.guides\u002F11.how-to-verify-your-account","Complete guide to obtaining Track Record Verified and Trading Privileges Verified certifications on ShowMyTrades",{"title":673,"path":112,"stem":674,"description":675,"children":-1},"Time-Weighted Return Explained: Why Deposits Cannot Inflate Your Results {YEAR}","3.guides\u002F13.time-weighted-return-explained","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.",1787415682359]