Frequently Asked Questions

What Djembely is

What is Djembely?

A gamified educational trading platform (djembely.com, “Find your market rhythm”) operated by Melian Dialogue Ltd, built to teach real trading discipline using real global market data — with purely virtual money, on every tier, permanently.

Is any of the money on Djembely real? Can I lose real money?

No. All trading happens with virtual currency that has no monetary value and cannot be purchased, exchanged, cashed out, gifted, or transferred between accounts under any circumstance. The only real money that ever moves is your own subscription fee, if you choose a paid tier.

Is Djembely regulated, or is this financial advice?

No. Djembely is not financial advice, not a regulated trading venue, and does not claim to prepare you for real trading outcomes — every screen showing a position, the portfolio, the leaderboard, or copy-trade activity states this plainly and persistently, not just in a one-time onboarding modal.

Can I trade options, futures, or use leverage/margin on Djembely?

No. Djembely has never included leverage, margin, options, or futures trading in any form — this has been confirmed and re-confirmed across multiple reviews of the platform, most recently when an institutional risk-engine design proposing exactly these was rejected wholesale as fundamentally incompatible with the platform’s own charter.

What markets and instruments can I practise on?

Real global market data across 293 connectors — 137 global exchanges and indices plus 156 regional/local sources — with EODHD as the default core feed.

Orders, the BeCo Index, and the Co-Pilot

What order types can I use?

Ten core order types — Market, Limit, Stop, Stop-Limit, Trailing Stop, Take-Profit, Bracket, IOC, FOK, and Post-Only — plus three combination orders, OCO, OTO, and OTOCO, all simulated against real market price data.

What is the BeCo Index?

A patent-pending behavioural discipline score, built on the same real mathematics used in institutional trading-psychology research — not a gamified badge. It’s computed only from your own real, revealed trading behaviour, never from a questionnaire.

What is the Djembely Co-Pilot?

An AI coach that asks Socratic questions about your trading decisions, explains the reasoning behind your BeCo Index, and helps you recognise patterns like revenge trading or entering without a plan — but it never places or blocks a trade for you. You always keep full execution authority.

If the Co-Pilot spots a risky or emotional trade, can it stop me from placing it?

No. Djembely operates on a strict never-blocks principle — the Co-Pilot can warn you, ask you a question, and suggest a short cooling-off period, but it never removes your ability to submit the trade you actually chose to place.

What is Copy Trade, and what stops people gaming the leaderboard?

Copy Trade lets you follow another user’s disclosed virtual trades; the leaderboard combines your BeCo Index and virtual P&L, with explicit conduct rules against manipulation or fake accounts used to inflate standing. A separate anti-gaming safeguard also protects the BeCo Index itself from being artificially inflated.

Cost and access

How much does Djembely cost?

Nothing. Djembely is free to all users: there are no tiers, subscriptions or prices, and you never need a payment method.

What do I get?

Everyone gets the same platform: a virtual portfolio with a £10,000 starting balance, the split-view Dashboard with the Djembely Co-Pilot, the BeCo Index™ with its Behavioural Alpha/Sigma metrics, the full education library and leaderboard participation.

What currencies can I use?

Prices can be displayed in over 160 currencies, with GBP remaining the underlying reference price throughout. All rates are live from Frankfurter, which blends reference rates from central banks and official sources, and are refreshed every hour. All balances are virtual.

Is there a referral programme?

Not at the moment. Because Djembely is free for everyone, there are no paid-plan rewards to earn.

Using the platform

Is there a mobile app?

Djembely is a fully responsive web app, optimised for mobile and tablet browsers — there is currently no separate native app in the App Store or Play Store; that would be a separate, later decision.

Can I switch between light and dark mode?

Yes, via a manual toggle available consistently across the dashboard and admin console, with a complete, real light-mode theme alongside the platform’s dark-mode default.

How old do I need to be to sign up?

18, enforced at signup, not just stated in the terms.

Can I delete my account and my data?

Yes. Djembely operates under a UK/EU GDPR framework covering access, erasure, and portability requests, with a stated service-level target for completing an erasure request.

For institutions and universities

Does Djembely offer institutional or university accounts?

Yes, through white-label and B2B enterprise licensing — a tenant can set its own logo and accent colour, resolved by subdomain or custom domain, with an AI Co-Pilot display name defaulting to “Djembely Co-Pilot” unless the tenant renames it.

Can a university connect Djembely to its own learning-management system?

Yes, via LTI integration with Canvas and Blackboard; a Moodle connector exists and is being tested against a live instance before being listed alongside them.

Instrument coverage

What's tradeable in simulation — all trading is virtual.

What's tradeable in simulation

Djembely simulates trading across a broad set of global and emerging-market instruments using real EODHD market data. All trading is virtual.

Every user gets the full order set (all core types plus OCO, OTO and OTOCO) and a 10,000 virtual-GBP starting balance.

Data refresh

Market data refresh follows the underlying EODHD plan and instrument. In all cases, execution is simulated — Djembely is not a trading venue.

Everything is free

The full platform, including the education library and the leaderboard, is free for every user, permanently.

Leaving Djembely

You can leave at any time — here's exactly what happens.

You can leave at any time

There is nothing to cancel: Djembely has no subscriptions. You can stop using it or close your account whenever you like, with no retention step.

What happens to your data

If you close your account, your data is deleted in line with the Privacy page. Nothing is hidden from you at the moment you try to leave.