How you compare to the desk

Against the desk is the section of the History tab that shows where you stand among other graded FundYourEdge traders. Your scores are useful on their own; knowing that a 6.8 Edge Score puts you ahead of most of the desk is more useful still.

What's compared

Four metrics, all of them size-independent:

• Edge Score
• Psychology Score
• Win rate
• Profit factor

Each one is shown as a bar with your standing on it — "ahead of 84%" — meaning 84% of the traders in that comparison sit below you.

We never rank P&L

Net profit is deliberately left out, and it's worth explaining why.

Profit scales with account size. Ranking it would put a $150K seat above a $25K seat purely because the seat is bigger, and then present that gap as a difference in skill. It isn't one. A trader making 4% on a $25K account is outperforming a trader making 2% on $150K, and a P&L leaderboard would say the opposite.

Every metric we do compare is independent of your account size, so the comparison is fair across the whole desk regardless of what anyone is trading.

Anonymous and aggregate

The on-screen line is the guarantee:

Anonymous and aggregate — you can see where you stand, never anyone else's numbers.

You learn exactly one thing: your own position in a distribution. You cannot see who else is in it, what any individual trader scored, or anything that would let you work it out. Equally, nobody else can see yours.

Why a metric might not be showing

Each metric needs at least 20 graded traders behind it before we'll show your standing. Below that, a percentile stops being a statistic and starts being a fingerprint — "you're in the top 50% of 2 traders" tells you who the other one is.

Two details follow from that:

• The minimum is checked per metric, not once for the whole card. A metric that only a handful of traders have unlocked stays hidden even when the desk overall is busy, because the group for that metric is still small.
• It fills in over time, as more traders come through Edge Lab and build enough history to be graded.

When there isn't enough to compare against yet, the section says so plainly:

Not enough graded traders yet to compare you fairly. This unlocks as more traders come through Edge Lab.

That's a data-availability message, not a comment on your trading.

How to read your standing

• Compare like with like. Everyone in the comparison is a FundYourEdge trader who has been graded — not the general public, and not a survivorship-filtered list of winners.
• Watch it over time, not day to day. The comparison group changes as traders join and build history, so small movements aren't always about you.
• Use it to prioritise. If your Edge Score is ahead of 80% of the desk and your Psychology Score is ahead of 25%, you know exactly which half of your trading to work on — and it's probably not the half you assumed.

Where to go next

• Your Edge Score and Psychology Score — what the two compared scores actually measure.
• How Edge Lab uses your trading data — how the comparison stays anonymous.
• The History tab — the rest of the page.