Copied trades, checked twice
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Two platform-native copy marketplaces sell the same good — automated access to a stranger's trading account. One lets the provider take a cut of the profit; the other bills a flat monthly fee in advance.
A private project shows its strategy to nobody but the invited. When the record leaves the public board, the only people who can audit a provider are the ones already following.
The Pro Investor tier table, read as what it actually is — a published schedule of payments for attracting money, with the copier's outcome nowhere in the formula.
Robinhood put a trading community in its app and deliberately left the mirroring out. Set against eToro's model, the omission is the product — and it sits on a regulatory fault line.
A new copy-trading brand announced a five-market push and exactly one fact about its corporate standing. The document's silences are the more useful reading.
The copy-signal economy — paid groups, leaderboard screenshots, 'copy my trades' pitches — is marketing, and the UK regulator treats marketing as its business.
