Lesson 5 of 54 min readUpdated Oct 2026

Leaderboard, Names and Privacy

How ranking works and how your identity stays yours.

Written and reviewed by the Fundezy team · how we produce this

The Leaderboard ranks long-run simulated performance across everyone learning on Fundezy — a source of motivation and of the most instructive data on the platform.

What ranks

Accounts are ranked on equity — where your trading has actually landed, floating P/L included. Because every account starts at the same simulated 100,000, the ranking measures performance, not deposit size. Margin rates are tiered per instrument the same way for every account: no structural shortcuts.

What the leaderboard teaches

Scroll it and you'll see the course-03 distribution in the wild:

  • Top accounts are rarely the most active — they're the most consistent. Compounding at controlled risk beats sporadic heroics (Course 03, Lesson 5).
  • Blown-up or deeply negative accounts cluster around over-trading signatures — many trades, deteriorating equity. The curve you learned about in drawdown math, made visible.

Use it as calibration, not competition: your benchmark is your own equity curve against your own risk plan.

Privacy model

Fundezy separates identity from visibility deliberately:

  • You sign in with your email — that's for your convenience and cross-device progress.
  • Other learners see only your leaderboard name — never your email, never your profile.
  • Every account starts with a fun generated name (like Fearless Ferret). Change it on your desk home page — or roll a new one; anything reasonable works, and the leaderboard shows exactly that name.

Sportsmanship, briefly

It's a shared classroom. The point of ranking is to make disciplined process visible, not to reward gambling. If you ever see your name climbing because you took a 50-lot flyer — Course 03 has a word for that, and so does the drawdown table.

When you're ready

Leaderboard stable for a quarter, drawdown contained, journal reviewed weekly? That's the profile of someone ready to think about real capital — which is exactly when rereading Course 03 one more time is the best move available.

By the numbers

One design decision worth quoting: every account runs the same 100,000 balance at 1:30 — the leaderboard compares execution, not deposit size. Visibility is name-only: no balances, no positions, no trade history. What competitors see is your equity curve; what they don't see is everything else.

Practice in the simulator

Check the leaderboard — apply what you just read with simulated money.

Check your understanding

3 questions · answer all, then submit.

1. All leaderboard accounts start with the same balance and leverage. This means the ranking measures…
2. What do other learners see about you on the leaderboard?
3. Accounts near the top of the leaderboard usually got there by…