question about copytrading?

[gre123]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

[joniboini]

Usually, they'll use a percentage to count your trade. Let's say the trader that you copy uses a total of 10% from all of his money (that 10k dollars), the same amount of money will be used on your account to do the same trade (so, around $10).

I doubt the copy trading platform allows such a small amount of trade though, most of the time they'll ask you to deposit a $1k at minimum, so there will be better liquidity on your account just in case the trade requires a wide stop-loss.

[adaseb]

I would advise against using any of those to trade your hard earned income. The reason is because even though they seem profitable and made money in the past, almost all of those signals have a huge drawdown at one point.

Usually what can happen is your account can easily be down by 90% at one point, then the market reverses back to your entry and you might end up with 5% profit. They take trades which have a small reward and a huge risk.

Eventually the account will reach 99% and you will be liqidated, sometimes even earlier due to spread and maintaince margin requirements. So just keep that in mind. They usually work well for a short period but eventually it will end up blowing up your account. So if you try it, do it with a small amount first and see what happens.

[beerlover]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

Copy trading is all about copying the signal (where to buy or exit) and your capital while copy-trading has nothing to do with. It means you must have pre-set on volume and trading pair on which you are going to copy-trade and when the trader (whom, you are following) opens a trade on the particular trading pair then it will trigger a open order in your account for the volume you have set.

Every platform has different set up things for these copy-trading functionalities, you must take time to get familiar with them before activating the same. But, definitely you do not worry about having same level of capital to copy. Moreover, copy-trading will kill your trading skills over the time. Generating your own signals for trading will make you a pro trader one day. Think about that .

[chip1994]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

The copy trading system will open the order for you according to the percentage of the account you are copying. For example, if the person you copy trading has $ 10,000 and they enter the order with the amount of $ 1,000, then that means you will open the order with $ 10 of your total $ 100. That is a percentage copy.

[avikz]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

I believe the picture below will be able to answer your doubts about copy trading. This is my own account with InstaForex.



Hope this helps!

[milandres0207]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

I don't trust that copy trading actually, it is a matter of money talk only. In short, they will demand you for a deposit which is too risky
especially if you're not familiar with it, instead of this thing much better to make your own way to do the actual trading by your
own strategy.

[coinfinger]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

I don't trust that copy trading actually, it is a matter of money talk only. In short, they will demand you for a deposit which is too risky
especially if you're not familiar with it, instead of this thing much better to make your own way to do the actual trading by your
own strategy.

Could you please take time to elaborate on what are the risks we may need to face when we are not familiar with copy trading. In my understanding, when we are not familiar with copy trading, it would be much better to go for copy trading instead of making our own trading strategy/trading signals. But, here you are saying something completely different from my basic understanding about copy trading. Definitely will be very big help to me if you explain a little bit more on copy trading.

After seeing lots of discussions and positive approach about copy trading from this community, I am slowly convincing myself to go for it because it will save my time and it may get me good returns for my capital in crypto trading in automated way. So, I just want to learn more about what are other risks in in copy trading.

[passwordnow]

I've known this feature on etoro and somehow it's effective if you are good putting your money with another layer of risk since you are already risking your fund through trading it.
If the trader you are copying starts to trade weird and start choosing stocks that you are not even familiar with, then his loss is also your loss.

[CapitalXtend1]

Copy trading definitely has its advantages for beginners, but like others have said, it’s crucial to understand who you’re copying and how they manage risk. Returns alone don’t tell the full story.

One thing that helped me was choosing a platform that actually shows detailed stats on a trader’s history—drawdowns, consistency, win/loss patterns, and how they react during volatile markets. Some brokers (like CapitalXtend, which I’m using now) also let you adjust your own risk level, so you're not blindly following someone else’s lot sizes. That kind of flexibility makes a huge difference.

[Byebyebtc]

Yh I have heard alot of people asked this question, it does really bother traders. The copy trades are usually scaled down to your account size, so if the trader uses $1000 and you on the other hand use $100 your own risk becomes more smaller than the trader which you copy the lot size will be different.i think the platform will have a setting for that. But I strongly advise your use demo first for testing before you start with real money.

Me in the other hand I do advise you try learning it by your self and after a while you should start trading by your self, so as you copy trade be learning as well.

[Coin_info]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members

Copy trading may seem like a good idea, and maybe you will be able to make some profit from it, but in a long run, it is not something you should be planning to do. I will always prefer to be the person whose trade is copied, not the person copying the trade of others because there is a bigger risk to it in my head. If you are willing to copy trade, it just shows that you are too much in a hurry to make money from trading and that is not good. If you want to profit from trading in the long run, it is best you invest your time and even resources into trying to learn to trade on your own instead of planning to copy the trade of others who you cannot always verify their emotional state and the strategy they use.

[Wakate]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

Copying another trader's trades is very risky and you should know what you are doing with the right settings so that you don't lose your money when trading. If a trader is being copied whenever they trade small token pairs with small market cap, your trade can become a liquidity to their trades indirectly especially when their are hundreds of traders copying them just like you. You need to know what you are doing so that you don't have to lose your money because of your ignorant about how copy trade works. Stay careful!

[SmartGold01]

I do not really advise copy trading and of course I don also involved myself with that because one could end up losing entirely since you don't how much the person you are copying is trading with, just as you have explained above, if the trader has enough liquidity, I mean with large equity you could get liquidated because you are not on same capital size with that trader meaning you would lose very fast than expected.

[Z_MBFM]

hey everyone, i just came across the website mql5.com and on the signals tab you can copy trade members but for example i have a 100 dollars and the member im copy trading trades with a 10000 dollars, how would that trade get copied in my account, i mean how does it usually affect margin? does anyone know ??

In copy trading, the amount does not matter. Here only his entry will be copied. At what price, how much leverage, which coin he entered and in which direction he entered will be copied and your entry will be equal to that amount, and the activities he does during trading will continue to happen to you in the same way. If the person you copy closes the trade, your entry will also be closed. And the profit and loss will depend on your own amount.

However, there is a lot of risk in copy trading because the person you copy may enter the market with a very small amount and high leverage and he himself will be liquidated because his amount is not very large and he will also liquidate those who copy him. There is a lot of fraud in the market with this copy trading. So of course, be careful in this copy trading and do not use very large amounts of money there.

[gunhell16]

Usually, they'll use a percentage to count your trade. Let's say the trader that you copy uses a total of 10% from all of his money (that 10k dollars), the same amount of money will be used on your account to do the same trade (so, around $10).

I doubt the copy trading platform allows such a small amount of trade though, most of the time they'll ask you to deposit a $1k at minimum, so there will be better liquidity on your account just in case the trade requires a wide stop-loss.

In my knowledge, some require a minimum of $100 to participate, but I've recently read that the minimum is now $1000 to join a copy trade on an exchange. It's probably best to do copy trading on a well-known exchange rather than on platforms that are not reputed in the crypto industry.

While I respect the choice of those who want to do copy trading, even if I'm not particularly interested in it, if they want someone to trade for them. And in my understanding,
if they have a smaller number of participants to choose from, they have a higher chance of making a decent profit compared to having many participants to choose from.

[programmer3666]

i think when you copy trade on a platform like mql5 the system matches the signal provider’s trades to your account size if they trade with ten thousand dollars and you only have one hundred, your account will only open a much smaller version of their trade. take for example, if they open one full lot you might open something like 0.01. It won’t copy the exact size because your account can’t handle that margin mql5 adjusts everything automatically so the trades fit your balance and leverage

[Alphakilo]

i think when you copy trade on a platform like mql5 the system matches the signal provider’s trades to your account size if they trade with ten thousand dollars and you only have one hundred, your account will only open a much smaller version of their trade. take for example, if they open one full lot you might open something like 0.01. It won’t copy the exact size because your account can’t handle that margin mql5 adjusts everything automatically so the trades fit your balance and leverage

Many of the recently developed trading platforms that are developed to handle copy trading these days come with AI tools or should I say automation tools that make a trader spend less time in between trades.
Just like you said, the MQL5 copy trading system is developed with features that will apply automation to scale a copied trade to fit how much a trader intends to trade with. It works to proportionate ones risk limit to fit their account balance size.

[RockBell]

Copy trading may seem like a good idea, and maybe you will be able to make some profit from it, but in a long run, it is not something you should be planning to do. I will always prefer to be the person whose trade is copied, not the person copying the trade of others because there is a bigger risk to it in my head. If you are willing to copy trade, it just shows that you are too much in a hurry to make money from trading and that is not good. If you want to profit from trading in the long run, it is best you invest your time and even resources into trying to learn to trade on your own instead of planning to copy the trade of others who you cannot always verify their emotional state and the strategy they use.

Am not a fan of copy trading because it just as if you are skipping steps and it will not going to end well, I even see people paying just to get signals because they are not really ready to put in effort,  when it comes learning and they can not even cross check if what they copying is right or not because they are focused on other people's ideas and that is when they will even face a more risky situation, and everyone need to take responsibility for there self when it comes to trading we actually need to do better.

And people need to understand that when you want to trade you don't need people to take responsibility of your duty as a trader that is the mistake that people make. And all is because everyone is looking for a easy way to make money and also and when it comes to trading it does not work that way, because if you don't, pay attention then money is going to lost and there easy ways that things can be learnt, and it is even better to pay for mentorship than paying for signals, it will be better that way.

[tygeade]

i think when you copy trade on a platform like mql5 the system matches the signal provider’s trades to your account size if they trade with ten thousand dollars and you only have one hundred, your account will only open a much smaller version of their trade. take for example, if they open one full lot you might open something like 0.01. It won’t copy the exact size because your account can’t handle that margin mql5 adjusts everything automatically so the trades fit your balance and leverage

Many of the recently developed trading platforms that are developed to handle copy trading these days come with AI tools or should I say automation tools that make a trader spend less time in between trades.
Just like you said, the MQL5 copy trading system is developed with features that will apply automation to scale a copied trade to fit how much a trader intends to trade with. It works to proportionate ones risk limit to fit their account balance size.

The new advancement in copy trading is really helpful specially for those who are recently starting to trade. They do not really have to spend a lot of time analysing the market instead they can just sit back and start copy-trading in a few clicks and start seeing profits depending on the individual trader they are copying.

Moreover, some of the platforms give ratings for the trader depending on their previous profits and active trading size. We can also choose a trader depending on the number of followers he/she has which makes it more easier for us to sort few of them. Even though we have these features, I will still not really go for copy trading because I love to make my own analysis and trade accordingly. But it will not hurt just to give it a try by sparing a couple of extra bucks.