Track-record verification
What the badge actually means
A shared TAP page carries one of three honest labels. We would rather under-claim than overstate — here is exactly what each one proves, and what it deliberately does not.
Verified
Every execution behind these numbers was received directly from a terminal — either the read-only TAP Sync EA running in the trader's own MetaTrader, or a cTrader account linked over the official Open API. No number here was typed in by hand.
Partly verified
Most executions came from a terminal, but some were imported from CSV or entered manually. We show the exact verified percentage rather than rounding it up — a page that is 82% verified says so.
Self-reported
These trades were imported from a CSV file or typed in by hand. They are the trader's own records — useful, but not something TAP independently observed. We never badge them as verified.
How “verified by terminal-side sync” works
A read-only EA in the trader's own terminal
The trader installs the TAP Sync EA in their MetaTrader. As each order fills, the EA streams that execution to TAP in real time. It is read-only telemetry — the source contains no trading functions, so it can report a fill but never place, modify or close one. TAP never holds broker credentials.
History arrives by terminal backfill
Trades that closed before the EA was attached are imported once, from the terminal's own account history — still the broker's records, read out of the same terminal. On a Verified page, that history counts as verified; if a trader instead uploads a broker CSV for the gap, those rows are marked self-reported.
Source is recorded per execution, and de-duplicated server-side
Every execution is stamped with where it came from (live EA, EA backfill, cTrader, CSV, or manual) and de-duplicated by a broker-side key, so re-syncing never double-counts. The badge is computed from that per-execution source mix — it cannot be set by hand.
What the badge does not prove
- It is not a third-party audit. TAP observes what the trader's own terminal reports. That is far stronger than a screenshot, but it is not an independent custodian confirming the account.
- Demo is not live. A demo account can be fully verified — the fills are real broker records — but the money is not. Demo track records are labelled “Verified demo” everywhere and never presented as live.
- Backfilled history is still broker records, not live-observed. Trades from before the EA attached were read from the terminal's history rather than watched as they happened. Same source, slightly weaker provenance.
- Returns are honest by construction. The return curve is a percentage of starting capital and excludes deposits and withdrawals, so a top-up can never masquerade as a winning streak. Absolute balances appear only if the trader opts in.
Put your own trading on the record
Connect a MT4/MT5 account in about five minutes and share a page that verifies itself. Free to start.