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Two traders with identical raw returns can have very different risk-adjusted performance once you account for the size and volatility of the accounts behind those returns — the leaderboard is built to compare the second thing, not the first.
A trader running a $2,000 account to a 40% monthly return and a trader running a $200,000 account to a 4% monthly return are not doing comparable things, and a naive leaderboard sorted by percentage return would rank the first trader far ahead of the second, even though the second result may reflect a much more repeatable, professional process.
Solven4's leaderboard instead weighs consistency, drawdown control, and risk-adjusted return alongside raw performance, so that outsized short-term gains built on outsized risk don't dominate rankings built for genuinely skilled, repeatable trading.
Because accounts are synced in from different brokers with different spreads, execution speeds, and available instruments, the leaderboard also accounts for these structural differences rather than pretending every account operates under identical conditions. This is part of why MT4 and MT5 accounts, and accounts from different brokers, can sit on the same leaderboard without one group having a built-in execution advantage.
A strong position on the Solven4 leaderboard is meant to signal a durable process, not a single lucky streak — which is also why it draws on the same verified, synced data that powers your audit trail. It's the same underlying record viewed from a comparative angle instead of an individual one.