What is copy trading? A definition and five settings
What is copy trading? The SEC's one-line definition, the FCA's portfolio-management test, and the five settings every copy product defines.
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Is copy trading legit? What platforms' loss figures say
Copy trading is real. Whether it is authorised where you live, and whether accounts end up ahead, are separate questions. Here is what providers print.
Is copy trading legal? What UK, EU and US rules call it
The FCA classes automatic copy trading as portfolio management needing authorisation; ESMA guidance is reported to agree; the US has two statutory tests.
Minimum amount to copy a trader on Binance, Bybit, Bitget
Bybit Classic asks 100 USDT to copy a trader; Bitget futures, spot and Gold/Indices ask 50. What each exchange's own page says, read 3 October 2026.
Copy trading entry price different from the lead trader?
Your copy is a second order, sent after the lead's fill. What Bitget, Binance, Toobit and cTrader Copy publish about that price gap, side by side.
What happens to copied trades when a lead trader stops?
cTrader Copy closes copied positions and realises fees; Axi keeps them linked to the signal; OKX and eToro say less. Four rules pages, side by side.
Copy trading profit share: what a lead trader can charge
Bybit Classic fixes the ratio by rank at 10 to 15%; Bybit Pro and OKX cap it at 30%. What each exchange's own rules page permits, read 19 September 2026.
Is copy trading profit share refunded at a net loss?
HTX, OKX and Bitget pre-deduct profit share on every winning order and refund the excess at settlement. Their own rules read side by side on when it comes.
Does copy trading profit share use a high-water mark?
Bybit Pro and Bitget spot say yes on their own rules pages; Bybit Classic and OKX net a weekly cycle instead. What each published settlement rule does.
WEEX Copy Trading, reviewed: what the rebuilt leaderboard shows and what it still cannot
WEEX has rebuilt its copy-trading discovery layer around four leaderboards, style tags and four performance windows. Judged as a disclosure product rather than a returns product, it fixes the window problem and leaves the survivor problem untouched.
Scope Copy reaches MetaTrader 5 with a performance fee band running to 50%
Scope Markets' copy service, now on MetaTrader 5, lets strategy providers set a fee anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent. The published protections govern when the fee is charged, not how large it is.
What eToro pays the trader you copy
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.
eToro CopyTrader, reviewed
The most polished implementation of copy trading on the market, examined the way we examine everything: allocation maths first, leaderboard psychology second, marketing last.
