How to read the leaderboard: every column explained

Fifteen columns is a lot to look at, and most leaderboards expect you to guess. Here is what each column on this site means, where it comes from, and what range is actually normal.

Rating

The composite score from 0 to 120, higher is better. Risk components are penalties from a 100-point base, and return adds a bonus of up to +20 (capped at +10 for grids). Everything else on this page exists to explain this number - the "Rating Breakdown" panel on a trader page shows every line with its scale.

Rough bands: below 40 is a bad account, 40–60 is ordinary, 60–90 is the interesting part of the table, above 100 is rare and usually means low risk plus a long record.

ROI

The trader's return over the selected window, from the exchange (YieldRateE4). Note this is a percentage of their capital, not of yours. Sortable, and the most overused column on any leaderboard - see the risk-adjusted pages for the alternative.

PnL

Absolute profit in USDT over the window. Useful only together with AUM: a large PnL on a small account is a leveraged percentage, and a large PnL on a large account is mostly a statement about scale.

Followers' PnL

What the people copying actually earned (FollowerYieldE8). This is the only column that includes profit sharing, slippage and failed copies. Read the 90-day number, not the all-time one.

Win Rate

Share of winning trades as reported by the exchange. High values are a warning: 95%+ is the signature of a grid. Compare it against our daily win rate in the review - a large gap means a few large trades carry the result.

Max DD

Maximum drawdown of the compounded equity curve, computed by us from the daily series rather than taken from the exchange (whose number is an additive sum and can exceed 100%). Lower is better; anything under 20% is genuinely conservative.

Liq

Days with a drop of 90% or more in the last 180 days. Zero is the cheapest filter on this page. This column is why the low-risk screen exists.

Sharpe

Return per unit of daily volatility, computed from our series and annualised by √365. Above 1 is good; below 0 is a losing account with an excuse.

Sortino

Like Sharpe but only downside volatility counts. It ranks a trader with violent up-moves and controlled losses higher than Sharpe does - which matches the follower experience better.

Trading Days

Days the account actually traded. A high return on 40 days is three positions, not a strategy. Combined with tenure, it is the honest measure of whether a track record exists.

Avg Holding

Average position time in hours over 90 days. Under 12 h is intraday, over 120 h is a swing account that will keep your capital idle. It is a fit question, not a quality question.

AUM

Capital under management. It describes size and popularity, not skill - and a very large base makes execution worse for the people copying. We deliberately do not score it.

Followers

Current subscriber count. Popularity, not quality. Also relevant mechanically: a trader near their follower cap is not copyable right now.

Stability

The exchange's own 0–5 stability score, built from balance, 7-day ROI and 30-day drawdown. We penalise it linearly: 5 costs nothing, 2 costs 10 points.

Columns on the risk-adjusted screens

• ROI (ours) - compound return from our daily series, so it always agrees with the chart on the trader page.
• Max DD (ours) - drawdown of the same curve, never below −100%.
• Score - our ROI minus 1.5 × our drawdown. The crude, transparent alternative ranking; a negative value means the drawdown outweighed the return.
• Active Days - the share of days the account was not flat. Below 25% the ranking is close to meaningless.

How to sort in practice

1. Rating, for the default view.
2. Liq ascending, then Rating, when you are choosing where to look closely.
3. Score on /risk-adjusted/ when you want the simplest possible risk-adjusted ranking and can see the drawdown term with your own eyes.
4. Never sort by ROI alone: the top of that column is where the survivorship bias lives.

Start on /low-drawdown/ if you are new to this. It is the least profitable corner of the table and the most useful one.