New DARWINs were listed this week by Sebastian, fufeijian66, fxone10, Yingru, Easier, Borja & TolomeoFX. Click on any of the images below to see their stats!
New DARWINs were listed this week by Sebastian, fufeijian66, fxone10, Yingru, Easier, Borja & TolomeoFX. Click on any of the images below to see their stats!
There are a couple of new DARWINs this week. Below you can find the DARWINs listed by traders SleepingTrading, IntegraCoreLive2, Phibase, NumberOne1, luis845, tabbykaris, RoninTrader, LehmannCapital, yokinfx, Jekk, Strodder, RainbowButtMonkey, JayB, QQ623736908 & marvr10! Click on any of the images below to see their stats. […]
There are a couple of new DARWINs this week. Below you can find the DARWINs listed by traders SleepingTrading, IntegraCoreLive2, Phibase, NumberOne1, luis845, tabbykaris, RoninTrader, LehmannCapital, yokinfx, Jekk, Strodder, RainbowButtMonkey, JayB, QQ623736908 & marvr10! Click on any of the images below to see their stats.
The number of DARWINs listed on our Exchange keeps growing. This week, traders NumberOne1, TradeTheWorld, TraderJTS, wmztss, Mawerson, notcher, Alexjacob76 & phibase listed the following DARWINs* (click on each of any of the DARWINs to see their stats): […]
The number of DARWINs listed on our Exchange keeps growing. This week, traders NumberOne1, TradeTheWorld, TraderJTS, wmztss, Mawerson, notcher, Alexjacob76 & phibase listed the following DARWINs* (click on each of any of the DARWINs to see their stats):
*each of the DARWINs above is available in 3 different risk levels.
Seven new DARWINs were listed in our Exchange this week*. Click below to see the stats of the DARWINs listed by traders Bocoja, Foundationforex, TradeSignalMachine, Gorgon, EMAFX, Filch & Chema01. *each of the DARWINs above is available […]
Seven new DARWINs were listed in our Exchange this week*. Click below to see the stats of the DARWINs listed by traders Bocoja, Foundationforex, TradeSignalMachine, Gorgon, EMAFX, Filch & Chema01.
*each of the DARWINs above is available in 3 different risk levels.
Remember the DARWIN IPO process? Every week, new traders request their DARWINs to be created & listed on our Exchange. DarwinexLabs review the new DARWINs over the weekend and give their approval for them to be listed on the DARWIN Exchange. As the number of DARWINs keeps growing, we thought it’d be useful to post new listings every week. […]
Remember the DARWIN IPO process? Every week, new traders request their DARWINs to be created & listed on our Exchange.
DarwinexLabs review the new DARWINs over the weekend and give their approval for them to be listed on the DARWIN Exchange.
As the number of DARWINs keeps growing, we thought it’d be useful to post new listings every week.
CXT (listed by trader Fenix)
GET (listed by trader seles)
KDU (listed by trader pokdong)
OJR (listed by trader JKonFX)
RKB (listed by trader litrader)
This video explains our monthly Darwinia trading challenge: why we run it, how it works, and what to expect if you win the allocation. We hope you enjoy it! Darwinia is a monthly cash-prize for DARWIN providers. To provide a DARWIN, you must: Trade a live account with Darwinex Authorise Darwinex to market the DARWIN based […]
Darwinia is a monthly cash-prize for DARWIN providers. To provide a DARWIN, you must:
We started Darwinia in November 2014 with 2500 EUR, and it’s since grown to the current monthly pot.
Visit the latest ranking!
It’s called Darwinia to draw a parallel with Darwinian selection in nature – only skilled traders survive the market, and because it rewards DARWINs with high 0-10 Investment Attribute scores (thus DarwinIA).
In addition to abuse for the name :-), we receive questions on how the ranking works – which we hope to cover with this post.
There’s no point explaining how you do something without first explaining why you do it (here’s why). If you’re just after the ranking, jump to the end for an explanation. However, be warned: ignoring the why defeats Darwinia’s purpose.
So, first things first, here’s why we do this. At its core, Darwinex is 2 claims:
Which all sounds very nice, but where’s the proof?
That’s one of the whys to Darwinia – to prove both claims above. Here’s how our desired chain of thought works. We:
If Darwinian selection works, investors should, over time, detect overlap between:
Once they do, Darwinia will have proven that today’s skill delivers tomorrow’s investor profits.
As a bonus, it helps Darwinex walk the evolutionary talk… Every broker talks trader alignment, but how many pay for Experience, Risk Management, Consistency, Timing, Performance and Scalability?
Once Darwinex reaches steady state, Darwinia ought to be a secondary revenue source to successful DARWIN providers, who will hopefully make a lot more from quarterly success-fees from investors in their DARWINs than the monthly Darwinia cash-prize.
Why do we place so much emphasis on quarterly success?
Because smart investors distrust churn based models. Commissions generated aren’t even a factor in the Darwinia ranking. Please note that Darwinex can legally charge for investor success because we hold the regulatory permission to do so: Darwinex is an FCA regulated asset manager!
As a bonus, rewarding success is a nice self-selection mechanism. Given the choice over success fees and commissions, truly consistent traders, who prefer success fees, self-select into joining Darwinex. Churn champions, on the other hand, stay clear – which is just what we want.
Why not pay monthly success fees?
On this, consistent traders and savvy investors have legitimate reasons to disagree.
DARWIN providers prefer monthly – success pay. They have a point: normal jobs pay weekly or monthly because living costs accrue daily. Surely if your strategy makes a profit month in, month out, you deserve a monthly check?
Which is when investors answer: what if a strategy wins amazingly in January, stays flat in February and implodes in March? Surely it would be a joke if Darwinex charged success fees for January? And they have a point.
That’s why we run a monthly cash-prize (Darwinia): to help bridge this trader-investor divide. We believe our claims (1 Darwinia winners are worthy long term investments, and 2 high 0-10 grades are the difference between skilled and lucky winners). So we walk our talk by paying Darwinia monthly, and taking the middle ground between traders and investors.
Which brings us to your why for Darwinia. Think of it as help from Darwinex to quit your “other” job and pursue full time trading, with a starting base salary. We know the current first prize of 1200 Euro isn’t quite there yet, but hey, as Darwinex grows (and we are GROWING) we’ll grow the prize, so you too GROW.
In a nutshell: by providing DARWINs with high grades every month, and hopefully winning.
These are the only inputs into the ranking
The factors entering the ranking are listed on the Leadearbord:
Note: factors are listed in order of importance. High grades IA grades count logarithmically more than monthly profit.
A further point on the grades: Darwinia is ranked with the 7 Darwinex levels in the skill progression. A DARWIN with a 7/10 in all 6 IAs gets more points than one with e.g. stellar performance, but mediocre Risk Management. Above anything else, Darwinia rewards consistency across ALL 6 skills / investment attributes.
Why logarithmic? Because given a monthly profit, a:
Given a monthly profit, a “Pro” has 2.5 higher chances to win Darwinia than an Expert, 6.25 more than Rookie, etc.
It’s deliberate: we want you to worry about improving ALL grades, and ignore the rest.
We do it, because we want to prove to the world that when you seed skill, profits eventually follow.
Until independent traders and Darwinex get there, we hope Darwinia helps you get there, quicker.
Please, please, please if there’s anything you feel we haven’t explained clearly enough, don’t hesitate to ask and we’ll do our best to improve this blog-post!
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