Risk controls

Stop-copy threshold

The single most important setting. Choose a loss level — as a percentage of the capital you allocated to that provider — at which copying stops automatically and open positions close. Set it at a number you can actually tolerate, then check it against the provider's historical maximum drawdown. If your threshold is 15% and their worst run was 28%, you will be stopped out at the bottom of a drawdown they eventually recovered from. Either raise the threshold or pick a different provider; do not leave the mismatch in place.

Allocation per provider

Assign capital per provider rather than exposing your whole balance. Money outside the allocation cannot be touched by that provider under any circumstance, which means a catastrophic strategy failure is capped at a number you chose in advance.

Per-trade and per-position caps

Cap the maximum stake on any single copied trade and the maximum number of positions open at once. Both protect you from a provider changing character — a swing trader who suddenly opens fifteen positions in a day is doing something different from what you signed up for, and the cap catches it before your balance does.

Leverage ceiling

Set the maximum leverage you will accept on a copied position. Anything the provider opens above it is either scaled down to your ceiling or skipped, your choice. This is the control that most often prevents a single liquidation event from mattering.

Excluded markets

Block specific assets or whole categories. Copiers who do not want altcoin exposure, or cannot hold certain assets for regulatory reasons, can exclude them and still copy the rest of the strategy.

Alerts worth turning on

Notification beats discovery.

• New maximum drawdown reached
• Allocation down more than 10% in 24 hours
• Provider opened a position above your usual size band
• No trades from a provider in 14 days
• Provider changed their published risk band