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Copy trading

Copy trading

Copying someone means copying their risk settings. The numbers to ask for before you do.

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Two accounts, one set of decisions. What is copied is the risk setting, not the judgement.

What you are buying when you copy somebody

You are not buying their skill. You are buying their risk settings — the size they take, the leverage they hold, how long they sit in a loss — applied to your money at whatever fraction you set.

Which means a strategy that suits an account ten times the size of yours can be the wrong strategy on yours, while being exactly the same trades.

The number to ask for is not the return

Ask for the deepest drawdown and how long the account stayed under water. A curve that doubled and halved twice on the way is a different product from one that ground out the same end figure, and only the second one is survivable at your size.

Then run it on your own balance: what would that drawdown have cost you, at the size you plan to copy at? The profit calculator turns the percentage into money, which is the only form worth judging.

What we have not measured, and will not pretend to

We publish no leaderboard and no provider ranking. We have not audited anybody's track record, and a list of top traders assembled from screenshots is worth less than nothing, because it looks like evidence.

What can be checked is the account the copying happens in — which entity holds it, under which licence, and what a round trip costs there. That is the part of this decision with documents behind it, and it is the part we do publish.

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FAQ

Common questions

Whose risk am I actually taking on when I copy a gold trader?

You take on the strategy provider's risk profile, not just their returns. If they trade larger gold positions, run without stops, or hold through major data releases, your account inherits that exposure at whatever copy ratio you set. Copying changes who makes the decisions, not the fact that the risk sits in your account.

What should I ask for before copying anyone trading XAU/USD?

Ask for the full track record including drawdown, not just the winning months. Ask how long the record covers, what lot sizes they use on gold, whether they use stop losses, and how the strategy behaved during volatile periods. Ask too what happens to your account if the provider stops trading or closes the strategy.

Does copy trading remove the need to understand margin and position size?

It does not. Copy trading automates the order flow, but the margin still comes out of your account and the losses are still yours. If you copy a provider using larger gold positions than your balance supports, a normal adverse move can trigger a margin call. Check the margin and position size implications before you set a copy ratio.

How do I decide how much of my account to allocate to a copied strategy?

Allocate from what you can afford to lose on that strategy, and treat it as one risk among several rather than the whole account. The right amount depends on the provider's typical drawdown, their gold lot sizes, and how much of your balance you want exposed to a single decision-maker. Use the margin calculator to see what their positions imply for you.

Are copy trading results on a provider's profile a guarantee of future returns?

No, past results are not a guarantee of anything. A record shows what a strategy did under past conditions, not how it will behave in the next volatile gold move. Treat the history as evidence of how the provider handles risk, and size your allocation so that a repeat of their worst drawdown is survivable.