Do you pay tax on copy trading in the UK? By product
Copied shares and CFDs usually fall under Capital Gains Tax; copied spread bets normally do not, with no loss relief. HMRC manual lines by product.
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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.
Robinhood Social and the line where copying starts
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.
Signal-sellers meet the promotions rules
The copy-signal economy — paid groups, leaderboard screenshots, 'copy my trades' pitches — is marketing, and the UK regulator treats marketing as its business.
