Which country has the best day traders? The early standings

As of 3 November 2026. A country is listed once it has five ranked traders, and the table names countries, never traders. The United Kingdom and India are one point apart, and India leads Pakistan by 16.

A new trader's rating starts at 1,000 by default; practice can move that starting point anywhere from 800 to 1,200. After the first rated match, results against other traders are what move it. The standings will be published again every month, dated, so you can watch them change.

Because fans follow the country, so any contest between the two counts, whatever the sport.

On 14 October 2023, India played Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup in Ahmedabad. Disney+ Hotstar counted 35 million people streaming at the same moment, a cricket record at the time, and the ICC reported a peak TV audience of 76 million on top of that.

The rivalry follows the two countries into hockey and the women's game, and in August 2024 it reached the javelin runway. At the Paris Olympics, Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won gold with an Olympic record, and India's Neeraj Chopra, who had won gold in Tokyo, took silver. Asked about the result, Chopra's mother, Saroj Devi, said the one who won gold "is also my child". Nadeem replied that she was his mother too.

England and Australia have the Ashes, which began as a joke. In 1882, after Australia beat England at the Oval, The Sporting Times printed a mock obituary for English cricket: the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. More than 140 years later the two countries still play for a small urn, and bring the same edge to rugby and netball.

The United States and Canada met in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off in February 2025, a brand-new NHL tournament, and about 16.1 million people watched across the two countries.

Every one of these rivalries has the same three parts: two countries, a game with the same rules for both sides, and a scoreboard both sides accept. Take away the scoreboard and you are left with an argument in a group chat.

The traders are there. In the 2025 Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index, India ranked first for the third year running, and Pakistan ranked third.

What was missing was a way to compare them. Ask a trader in Karachi or Mumbai who the best in their country is and you get names from YouTube and Telegram, with screenshots. Screenshots do not compare: one trader has a $500 account and another has $50,000, they use different brokers, trade different weeks, and nobody sees the losing days. The full argument is in who is the best day trader in the world.

Every trader in a Sivex match starts on equal terms.

• ◆Everyone trades the same $10,000 practice account, with leverage, on live crypto, gold, silver and oil prices.
• ◆Matches last 30 minutes, and the score charges for deep drawdown, so sizing well counts for more than swinging hardest.
• ◆Sivex never takes the other side of a trade, and every trade is committed to a public blockchain, so anyone can check a result.
• ◆Your entry, $5 to $25, is the most you can lose, and the top 20% of a full lobby are paid from the entries, minus a published fee.

Each result moves the trader's Sivex Rating. A trader's country is the flag shown next to their name: the country from their identity verification once they have verified, and the one they chose on their profile until then. For the standings, we take each country's five highest-rated traders and average their ratings.

Not officially. Nobody picks you, and there is no anthem.

In the way fans care about, yes. When a flag keeps showing up near the top of a board that traders everywhere read, people from that country notice, and some of them decide they can do better. That is how most rivalries grow: one name at the top, and a lot of people who think they should be there instead.

The version worth having is the one from Paris. Compete flat out, then call the other side's winner your own.