A "Trader" is a ZuluTrade user, who trades either on a Demo or Real account while ZuluTrade publishes his/her results and statistics publicly through the website. Each trading action performed in the Trader’s account is sent to all ZuluTrade Demo and Real accounts in the form of a broadcast signal.
Users, who have chosen to follow the Trader ("Investors"), have the trading action automatically executed in their account, residing in their brokerage firm. Since a simple Trader signal is executed by various different Brokers that have different trading interfaces and configurations, trading problems can occur. A possible instance is an orphan trade. An orphan trade is a trade that although it is closed in the Trader’s account, due to a variety of reasons, it may be left open on one or more of the Investors' Real accounts. This incident can lead to different results between the Trader and the Investor- e.g. although the Trader gains, the Investor ends up losing as a result of the trade having closed long after it had been closed in the Trader’s account. However, Traders have the ability to both monitor and close their Real Investors' positions that are detected as "orphans".
Investors can fine-tune and override Traders signals by configuring their settings in their ZuluTrade account portfolio, or even manually.

For Risk Management purposes, ZuluTrade may restrict Traders for being copied by Investors in case they don't follow the Program's Guidelines.

Everyone can sign up to become a Trader. To register your Trader account, please click here. You can open up to 10 Trader accounts with the same email address.
Competition however is fierce. Traders’ performance is constantly ranked by ZuluTrade's ZuluRank algorithm and the ZuluTrade community, so that only the best ones appear on the top of our lists.

Traders may select one of the following Trading Platforms to place their trades:

As a Trader trades, their performance and position in the ZuluTrade Traders page will gradually evolve; moving up and down in ranking. All data and information of the Traders are taken into consideration in order to calculate their place in the ranking. Some decisive factors for the ZuluRank are (please note that this list is not exhaustive):

For Our European Performance Page only, the below mentioned factors are also taken into account in order to form the list of the top 2000 Traders:

For our US Traders page only, the Trader account must be compliant with the FIFO and No-Hedging market policy set up by NFA.

If you want to find out more about the way ZuluRank is calculated, please click here!

The Performance page is updated several times per day, as trades and Traders' statistics develop. Performance page also contains visual indicators, helping Investors to identify certain Trader attributes. Most common of which are:

In order to appear in the Traders page, a Trader must first close 1 position, while a minimum of 8 weeks of trading activity is required in order to appear on the Traders page for Europe!