The leaderboard ranks sessions by a blended performance score, not by raw profit alone. That design choice is deliberate: it rewards risk-adjusted, consistent trading over reckless bets that happened to pay off, so climbing the board and becoming a better trader pull in the same direction.
Why not just rank by profit?
A profit-only leaderboard has a fatal flaw: the fastest way to the top is to take enormous risk and get lucky. That would crown gamblers and teach everyone watching the worst possible habit. By blending in risk management and consistency, the score refuses to reward recklessness - the exact behavior that destroys real accounts. This is the same logic behind why you read drawdown beside profit, not instead of it.
What the score tends to reward
- Risk-adjusted return: profit earned without wild swings, in the spirit of the Sharpe ratio.
- Consistency: a steady climb rather than one lucky spike.
- Controlled drawdown: keeping the worst stretch shallow.
- A real sample: results built on enough trades to mean something.
In other words, the score rewards the same qualities that make a strategy survive live trading.
Same ending balance, very different quality. The blended score sees the difference that raw profit hides.
Fair inputs, fair board
For the ranking to mean anything, the inputs must be controlled. That is why session settings like starting balance and leverage are constrained to sensible ranges - it stops anyone from warping the score with extreme configurations and keeps the comparison honest across traders. A leaderboard is only as trustworthy as the guardrails around its inputs.
Important: treat the leaderboard as feedback, not a goal in itself. Chasing a rank by taking risks you would never take live defeats the purpose. The right target is a genuine edge with disciplined risk - the score follows naturally.
How to climb it the right way
Build a strategy with consistent positive expectancy, keep your risk fixed and your drawdown controlled, and gather a solid sample. These are not leaderboard tricks - they are simply good trading, and the score is designed to recognize them. If you focus on trading well, ranking well takes care of itself.
Put a real session on the board
Run a disciplined session in the simulator, and if it holds up, save it and see where it lands. Use your ranking as a mirror: a strong score confirms good habits, and a weak one points you toward the metric - usually drawdown or consistency - that needs work.
Leaderboard FAQ
How does the leaderboard score sessions?
By a blended performance score rather than raw profit, rewarding risk-adjusted return and consistency so a steady session can outrank a lucky reckless one.
Why not rank by profit alone?
Because pure profit rewards excessive risk. A blended score values the risk management and consistency that actually survive live trading.
How do I climb it the right way?
Build a genuine edge with disciplined risk - consistent expectancy, controlled drawdown, a solid sample. Those habits score well and trade well.