Ranked on annualized return — never on dollars

The leaderboard is a public record of how income trades actually did — ranked by annualized percent return on closed, verified trades. A one-lot wheel can outrank a fifty-lot book. Dollars are a size contest. Percent is the trade.

What scores

• Closed, verified trades. Open positions do not score. A trade that never passed verification is visible on a profile (if the trader shares trades) and is absent from the ranking.
• Imported history does not rank. A CSV of last year’s winners is a story, not a score. Log it while it is open, close it when it closes — see Verified trades.
• Win rate, trade count, cycle count, copy count sit on the row as context. They do not break ties and they do not replace the annualized number.

Monthly seasons

The default view is all-time. The window control switches to this month, the previous couple of months, YTD, or all-time. A season is a UTC calendar month (2026-08) — the same stamp the incomplete-history flag uses, so a flagged August cannot sneak into the August board under a different label.

A trade belongs to the season it closed in. A put opened in July and closed in August is an August trade. YTD is every season from January through the current month. All-time is unbounded.

Who is on it

Anyone with an account can join with a nickname. Free accounts compete. The twelve house bots are always there as SIMULATED paper at real prices — a benchmark, not a prize. Copy any visible trade into the builder at today’s chain: Copying a trade.