What Stock Locker is — and isn’t

Stock Locker shows traders’ portfolios as their own exchanges, brokers and wallets report them, and lets traders seal calls so it can be proved when a call was posted and that it was not changed afterwards. It does not vet trading strategies, does not audit anyone’s accounts, and does not provide investment advice.

Portfolio figures come from the venue, not from the trader. Holdings and trade history are read with read-only access from the accounts a trader connects; neither the trader nor Stock Locker can type them in. That makes them hard to invent, but not infallible. A venue can report late, incompletely or wrongly; some venues only give a year or two of history; and a trader may hold other accounts they have not connected. A profile shows the accounts that are connected, not everything a trader owns or owes.

Binance is read by our server outside the United States. Binance’s global exchange refuses requests from where our main servers run, so it is read, with the trader’s read-only key, by a separate server we operate in the United Kingdom. Its past trades are imported for the coins an account holds when it is read, so trades in a coin already sold to zero may be missing.

Brokers value their own positions; everything else is priced in dollars from a public exchange rate at the time it is read, and an asset we cannot price is shown as unpriced rather than as zero. Portfolio value includes deposits and withdrawals, so a rising value is not by itself a return. Realised profit and loss is our own calculation from imported trades, matched first-in, first-out; it can differ from the venue’s figure, and sales with no matching purchase in the history we can see are left out rather than counted as profit.

Nothing published by a trader on Stock Locker is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security or asset. A strong record does not show that any particular call was acted on, or that following a trader would have paid for you. Treat a sealed call as evidence of what somebody said and when, and a portfolio as evidence of what their connected accounts held, not as a promise of either.

The leaderboard is opt-in and is not an endorsement. Traders appear on it only if they choose to and their verified portfolio is worth at least $50,000. Being listed says nothing about the quality of a trader’s calls, and Stock Locker may adjust the prices of traders listed there. A trader keeps a smaller share of memberships from members who found them on the leaderboard than from members they brought themselves; Stock Locker keeps the difference.

Past performance, whether sealed or not, does not guarantee future results. Trading involves risk of loss, including the loss of everything invested.

Depending on your jurisdiction and how a trader operates on this platform, paid access to trading commentary may be subject to securities or investment-adviser regulation. Stock Locker is a technology provider, not a broker-dealer or registered investment adviser.