How it works
Scoring, ranking and the rewards that sit on top — explained simply, with worked examples. The same rules apply to every trader in every event.
You're ranked by your score — not your raw P&L. Everyone starts the window with the same $10,000 and trades the same live market, so the leaderboard rewards skill and risk control, not who gambled hardest. Three things shape your score:
Where your equity finishes the window, as a percentage of the $10,000 start.
Dip more than 10% below your peak and the part over the line is charged back at 1.5×.
Close a trade in under 30 seconds and a small penalty applies. Hold at least 30s — normal trading — and it never fires. It only exists to keep out bots and low-latency scalping.
Risk stayed inside the line, so the full +4% counts.
A green +6% close turns negative — 5% over the line cost 7.5%.
The biggest raw gain, the worst score — reckless drawdown sinks you.
All three held their trades past 30s — so the haste penalty stays at zero for every one.