A MyFxbook widget is a small, embeddable badge or chart that shows an account's performance on a website. You have seen them on vendor pages and EA sales sites — a gain percentage, a little equity curve, a "verified" tick. The widget is a display, nothing more. What it shows depends entirely on the account behind it, and that is where most people stop reading too soon.
What it is
MyFxbook lets an account owner generate HTML widgets — a gain badge, an equity or balance chart, a custom stats panel — and paste them onto any web page. The widget pulls its figures from that MyFxbook account and updates on its own. Think of it as a window onto a MyFxbook page, embedded somewhere else.
The common types
- Gain badge — a single headline number, usually total gain.
- Equity or balance chart — the curve over time.
- Custom widget — a panel of chosen stats: drawdown, pips, win rate.
What it does prove
A genuine, live widget shows that the data is coming from a MyFxbook account and reflects what that account has reported. If MyFxbook marks the account "Verified", the connection type — and, where checked, the broker — was confirmed at some point. That is worth something, but it is a narrower claim than it looks.
What it does not prove
This is the part vendors rely on you skipping:
- Not necessarily real money — a demo account produces the same widget as a live one.
- Not necessarily this vendor's account — anyone can embed any public widget. The curve on a sales page may belong to a completely different account.
- Not the full story — a widget can be set to a flattering window, or built without a drawdown panel.
- Not even current — a screenshot of a widget is just an image, and an image proves nothing.
How to check
Say a page shows "+340% gain" in a widget. Click it — a real widget links back to the MyFxbook page. On that page, check the account type, the tracked drawdown and the length of history. A £2,000 demo account showing +340% over two months is worthless. A £2,000 live account up 340% over two months got there on risk that will eventually bite, and the drawdown panel usually shows how hard. The badge on its own told you none of that.
A widget proves where a number came from — not that the number is real money, and not that it belongs to the person showing it. Follow the link to the underlying account before you trust the badge.
The Karnek note
Karnek reads performance straight from your live terminal rather than from a badge that can be pointed at any account, so the figures belong to the account you are actually watching. Every number links back to the trades that produced it. Karnek only reads the account and can never place or close a trade on it.
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Written and reviewed by the Karnek Research team. Last updated August 2026.
Educational content only - not financial advice. Past performance does not predict future results. Trading carries significant risk.