Public records
Everyone shows returns. We show whether they are real.
Three boards over the same records. Every number here is derived from an append-only fills journal written by the fill engine — nothing is self-reported, and no account can publish a figure it did not trade.
Ranked by total percent return since the record started. The most flattering board and the least informative: it rewards whoever took the most risk and got away with it.
What the three boards mean
- Return
- Total percent return since the record started. The most flattering board and the least informative — it rewards whoever took the most risk and got away with it.
- Sharpe
- Annualized Sharpe on daily closes, at a zero risk-free rate. Risk-adjusted, so a single lucky position does not outrank a steady book. It still says nothing about how many attempts it took to find the strategy.
- Verified (Deflated Sharpe)
- The Deflated Sharpe Ratio asks the question the other two ignore: given how many strategy variants were tried, how high would a Sharpe have to be before it stopped being explainable by luck? A record appears here only once that has been computed for it. No other trading venue publishes this; the largest evaluated it and rejected it as impractical because it requires the history of every backtest — which is exactly what our checkpoint and journal architecture keeps.
Who is eligible
A public record must be at least 30 days old and carry at least 20 filled orders. Any reset restarts that clock, and a cloned account inherits no history at all. These gates are enforced in the database query itself rather than in application code, so there is one place to pass and no call site that can forget them.
Why they exist: checkpoints, clones and resets make it trivial to run twenty accounts and publish only the survivor. That is survivorship bias presented as skill, and it is the failure mode every trading leaderboard on the internet has.
What a public record does not show
Handle, avatar, a normalized percent curve and summary statistics. Never dollar amounts, positions, symbols, orders, or the trader's name — the curve starts at zero by construction, so account size cannot be recovered from it. Publishing proves an edge exists without revealing what it trades.