The Leaderboard ranks users by cumulative performance over a chosen period. It's a way to see how your account is doing relative to the wider community of users running the same alert sources.

Choosing a period

A row of tabs (or buttons) lets you switch the period:

• Today — just today's performance.
• 7-Day / Week — the last seven trading days.
• 30-Day / Month — the last month.
• Year-to-date / Last Year — calendar-year views.
• All-Time — every closed trade since the account started.

Choosing a source

If you subscribe to multiple alert sources, you can filter the leaderboard to one source at a time so you're comparing apples to apples — e.g. "ranking only on the SPY day-trade alerts."

Sorting

Click any column header to re-sort. Common columns include profit percentage, profit in dollars, total fees, net profit, and win rate.

The podium

The top three accounts for the chosen period are highlighted on a podium above the table — second place on the left, first in the center (raised highest), and third on the right — so the leaders stand out before you even read the table.

Tier badges

Every ranked row carries a small tier badge based on its standing: Diamond (top 5), Platinum (6–15), Gold (16–50), Silver (51–150), and Bronze below that. It's a quick shorthand for how high up the board a row sits.

Copiers

On boards where the data is available, a Copiers column shows how many people are copying that strategy. Like every other column it's sortable, so you can rank by popularity as well as by performance.

Totals row

Pinned to the very bottom of the table is a totals row that sums up the whole board for the filters you've applied. The dollar and count columns — Gross P&L, Fees, Net P&L, Trades, and Copiers — are added together, while the percentage columns (Total % Gain and Win Rate) show the average across the ranked accounts, labeled avg (adding up percentages wouldn't tell you anything useful). It recalculates on the fly whenever you change the period, source, or any other filter, so it always matches exactly what's on screen.

Who appears on the board

The leaderboard ranks active members only — anyone with a current subscription, plus lifetime members (who never lapse). If someone cancels, they stay on the board through the end of the period they've already paid for, then drop off once that period ends — so the rankings always reflect the community that's trading alongside you right now, not accounts that left months ago.

Dropping off the board only affects the ranking. Your own trades are always kept and still counted in your personal stats and history — nothing about your records changes.

For example, a trader who had a huge all-time run but cancelled last quarter won't sit at the top of the All-Time board anymore — you're always being compared against people who are still in it with you. A lifetime member, on the other hand, is always included.

The Competition board

During a trading competition an extra Competition tab appears. It works differently from the others in two ways.

Entrants are shown by name. Everywhere else the board is anonymous, but a competition is public by design — entrants signed up knowing their handle would appear — so the Competition tab shows the handle each entrant registered with. It still never shows a license or any account detail, and it only lists entrants who have actually closed a trade in the period you're looking at.

It's scored differently. The Competition board ranks on a Score:

Score = Net % − ( 0.5 × Max Drawdown % )

Everything is measured in percentages, never dollars. You're judged on the quality of what you called, not on how many contracts you traded — so a big account and a small one compete on exactly the same footing.

Max Drawdown is the worst peak-to-valley drop on your running total across the whole competition — not the worst single trade. If you climb to +150%, slide back to +60%, then finish at +200%, your drawdown is the 90% you gave back along the way.

So two entrants who both finish at +200% don't tie. One who never gave back more than 20% scores 190%; one who round-tripped 90% scores 155%. Making the gains smoothly beats making the same gains on a rollercoaster — which is the whole point, since a trader nobody can stomach following isn't worth following.

Tier badges are hidden on this board (a competition field is too small for them to mean anything), and the totals row shows the worst drawdown in the field rather than a sum, since adding everyone's drawdowns together would describe a curve nobody actually traded.

Seasons, and what happens when one ends

Competitions run in seasons. When a season ends, its standings are locked — the board is stamped FINAL with the date it closed, and the numbers never move again.

Locked really does mean locked. Anything that happens after the closing bell is invisible to that season, including a position you were still holding when it ended:

• A trade you closed during the season counts at the price you actually got out.
• A trade you were still holding at the closing bell is valued at its price as of that bell, and that value is frozen in. If you keep holding it and close it days later for twice as much — or for nothing — the season's standings don't change.

For example, if you were short a spread into the final Friday and it was worth $0.40 to buy back at the close, the season scores it at $0.40. Riding it into the following week can't improve or damage your finish.

Once more than one season exists, buttons above the board let you switch between them. Past seasons stay available permanently, so you can always go back and look at how a previous season finished — and if you competed in more than one, each of your finishes stays on record.

Note

Entering trades for a finished season isn't possible — the entry is closed along with the standings. Your ordinary trading is completely unaffected; only the competition entry retires.

What's NOT shown

Other than the Competition board described above, the leaderboard never shows other users' usernames, license details, or anything personally identifying. You can see how everyone is doing in aggregate, but you can't tie a row back to a specific person.

Tip

The leaderboard is the easiest way to sanity-check your own settings. If the median user is up 8% this month on the same alert source you subscribe to and you're down 3%, your settings — not the alerts — are probably the issue. Time to backtest.