Editorial Policy

This page describes how Copytrade Press produces its coverage. It is written to be held against us.

How we assess copy-trading platforms

We review mechanics, not vibes: how allocation works when you copy a trader, what happens to open positions when a copy ends, where slippage enters between a leader’s trade and a follower’s, how fees are charged and whether displayed returns net them out, and how the platform’s incentives shape what its leaderboards promote. Our sources are the platforms’ own published pages, terms, and help documentation, plus regulators’ published materials — and we attribute accordingly: “per the platform’s published pages”, “per the regulator”, “as of this writing”. We do not run live-money performance tests, and we never present a platform’s figures as our own measurements. Every performance display we discuss gets the same three questions: what window, which survivors, after which costs. We never invent quotes, statistics, or results.

What our scores mean

Scores run to ten and judge the product against what it claims to be — the honesty of its mechanics and its displays — never the returns anyone earned through it, which we cannot verify and would not extrapolate if we could. A score in the sixes means the machinery works but a structural problem (incentive misalignment, opaque fee treatment) demands real caution; the sevens mean well-built with limitations we enumerate; the eights are reserved for platforms whose transparency we would hold up as the standard. We do not hand out tens, and a high score is never a recommendation to copy anyone: the best-engineered copy product on earth still transfers trades, not skill, and leaves every loss with the copier.

Disclosure practice

Copytrade Press is commercially supported. Some links may earn us affiliate commissions or advertising revenue; any paid or affiliate link is marked as such, and any sponsored post carries a disclosure at the top, in the same layout as everything else. Sponsors buy placement, never conclusions — see the advertise page for how that works.

Bylines

Articles on Copytrade Press are published under house bylines maintained by the editorial team. Reviews run under the editor’s byline, Oskar Brandt, which is a disclosed house pen name and the accountable editorial identity; news runs under “Staff, Copytrade Press.” That is a disclosed house-byline model, not a roster of freelancers, and we would rather tell you that here than have you discover it. We do not fabricate journalist biographies, credentials, or trading histories — no one here will ever claim “years on a desk” to borrow authority a document could not supply.

Risk, stated plainly

Every page of this site carries our footer line, and every post repeats the substance of it in its own words: copy trading transfers risk, not skill; past performance does not predict future results; nothing we publish is financial advice. We are not licensed advisers, we make no income claims, and we do not run sign-up funnels or “start copying” calls to action for the platforms we cover.

Corrections

We correct errors plainly and note the correction in the piece. If you believe we have published something wrong — a mechanic, a fee, a date, a characterisation — please tell us via the contact page; corrections requests go straight to the editorial desk and are read by a person.