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# Calculating Your Share

The points you hold, divided by the points everyone holds.

Once every fund's reward weight for the cycle is known, your share is simple division:

> **Your share** is your reward weight divided by the reward weight of every fund in the round. **Your payout** is the round's pool multiplied by that share.

![Your points against everyone's points](https://3552858075-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FGyJ2fCw8mpbx6YAYcG8z%2Fuploads%2FGhZWpRK5TufZbDgdToWP%2Ffig-17-pool-share-v2.svg?alt=media)

## A worked example

Four funds reach the end of an hour holding this:

| Fund      | How the hour went             | Points held | Share of the pool |
| --------- | ----------------------------- | ----------: | ----------------: |
| Fund A    | Big office, traded well       |     100,000 |             47.6% |
| Fund B    | Small office, hit the ceiling |      60,000 |             28.6% |
| Fund C    | Never opened the terminal     |      40,000 |             19.0% |
| Fund D    | Lost points trading           |      10,000 |              4.8% |
| **Total** |                               | **210,000** |          **100%** |

Fund C placed no trades at all and still takes almost a fifth of the pool, because the office is what the board pays on. Fund D had a bad hour in the terminal and still takes something, because what its office produced does not disappear when a trade goes wrong.

## The two ways to raise your share

Only two things move your reward weight, so only two things move your share:

1. **Build a bigger office** — it pays in every cycle whether you trade or not, and it raises the ceiling on what the terminal can add.
2. **Trade well** — up to that ceiling, which is your office's own output for the cycle.

{% hint style="warning" %}
The two are not equal. Office income is uncapped and arrives whether you are at the desk or not. Terminal winnings stop at double what the office made, and terminal losses come straight off the balance the pool pays on.
{% endhint %}

Your standing updates live during the cycle, so you can watch your share move as other funds build and trade.


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