Copy trading carries risk of loss. Read the risk disclosure before you follow anyone.
Providers earn only when you earn, and only above your previous peak. Worked examples below, because this is the part people most often get wrong.
Profit share is charged on new profit above the highest balance your copy account has previously reached with that provider. If you deposit $10,000 and grow to $12,000, share is charged on the $2,000. If you then fall to $11,000 and recover to $12,500, share is charged only on the $500 above the old peak — not on the $1,500 recovery. You never pay twice for the same ground.
Take a provider on 12%. Month one you are up $1,000, so $120 goes to them and $880 to you. Month two you are down $600; nothing is charged and your high-water mark stays where it was. Month three you are up $900 — the first $600 restores the peak and is not charged, the remaining $300 is, so $36 goes to them. Total across the quarter: $1,300 gained, $156 paid.
Calculated daily at 00:00 UTC on realised profit, settled to the provider weekly. Unrealised profit on open positions does not count until the position closes, so a paper gain that evaporates is never charged.
Profit share is separate from trading fees. Every copied trade pays the normal maker or taker fee on your account, at your own volume tier — copying does not put you on a worse rate, and high-frequency strategies will generate meaningfully more fee volume than swing strategies for the same return.
If a provider is delisted for manipulation, profit share collected during the affected period is clawed back and returned to copiers. Disputes about a specific charge should go through Submit an inquiry with the date range attached.
Browsing and following are free. Traders earn only when you do.
