Copy trading connects your account to another Tradin trader's. When they open, change, or close a position, the same happens in yours, sized to the amount you allocated. You can also publish your own trading for others to copy.

Copying hands over the trading decisions. The risk stays yours. A provider's losses land in your account in the same proportion their gains do.

In the Tradin app this is the Social Trading account type. Copy Trading and Social Trading are the same service.

Both roles

Choose your role

Creating your account

1. In your dashboard, go to New Trading Account and select the Social Trading account type.
2. Under Choose your role, select Become a Provider or Become a Follower.
3. Check I have read and agree to the Social Trading Agreement, then select Create Account.

For followers

Following a provider

Choosing who to copy

The providers leaderboard lists every provider with Return (total) alongside 1Y, 6M, 3M, 1M and 1W windows. Selecting Profile opens that provider's full statistics.

• Track record length: a blank Return column means no data for that period, not a flat result.
• Maximum drawdown: the largest peak-to-trough loss so far. A strategy showing +300% with a 60% maximum drawdown means the people copying it sat through losing more than half their money. If you could not hold that, the return does not matter.
• Risk score and equity curve: a steady climb means repeatable trading. Sharp rises and drops mean concentrated positions, whatever the risk score says.
• Instruments and style: what they trade and how often, and whether that matches your own risk appetite.

Every metric is broken down in How to Read a Provider's Profile.

Allocating and what to expect

Enter the amount you want to allocate. There is no fixed minimum, though the amount affects how faithfully the strategy reproduces. The fee and billing period are shown before copying starts.

Four mechanics then separate your results from the provider's. None of them is a fault.

So the return shown on a strategy is the provider's, not a forecast of yours, and the smaller your allocation the wider that gap can run.

Managing and unsubscribing

Your copied positions and returns are tracked in your dashboard. All of the following can be changed at any time:

• Maximum-loss limit: copying stops automatically at the loss level you set. Set this before you start, not during a drawdown.
• Allocation: add to or reduce it without interrupting the copy.
• Individual positions: close any copied position yourself.
• Multiple providers: copy several at once, each with its own allocation and limits, subject to margin.

Review your copied strategies regularly and watch for style changes. Suddenly larger positions, new instruments, or abandoned stop losses are warning signs. Tradin does not alert you to losses, drawdowns, or margin shortfalls, so that check is yours to make.

Unsubscribing stops the copying. You choose whether to close all open positions at the current market price, or keep them and manage them yourself from then on. Accrued fees are deducted at that point. If a provider closes their strategy, notice is given first and everyone subscribed can unsubscribe before it closes.

For providers

Publishing a strategy

Setting up

1. Open a Social Trading account and select Become a Provider.
2. Set a public nickname, strategy name, and description. Followers see these instead of your personal details, so explain your style, instruments, typical holding time, and risk approach.
3. Set your fees and billing period.
4. Trade as you normally would. You do not place trades twice, and your statistics build automatically.

Trade your Provider account with your own funds, and keep enough margin to avoid a forced liquidation, because that closes your followers' positions along with yours. Your fee is charged on each follower's profit above their high-water mark and settles at the end of every billing period. Followers stay with steady equity curves and controlled drawdowns, so extreme leverage and martingale patterns tend to attract fewer of them and are more likely to fail publicly.

Both roles

What it costs

The performance fee comes out of profit only. Rates run as high as 60%, so compare providers on what you keep rather than on what the strategy made. Any tax on your results is yours to handle.

Fees apply only to new profit above the highest value your allocation has previously reached. A fall and recovery is not charged twice.

Example: $2,000 allocated to a strategy charging 25%, billed monthly.

Month three is the one people misread. The allocation gained $180, but only $60 of that cleared the previous high, so the fee follows the $60. Fees are not refunded once charged, and a calculation error is corrected by credit.

Both roles

The risks

Copy trading carries a high risk of loss, up to and including everything you allocate.

• Past performance is not an indicator of future results: a provider can change their trading approach, increase risk, or see performance deteriorate at any time, with no warning. Rankings and metrics can also carry errors and delays.
• Leverage runs in both directions: strategies may use significant leverage, which amplifies gains and losses equally.
• Provider withdrawals affect you: a provider taking funds out of their Provider account changes trade sizing and exposure for everyone subscribed to them.

Allocate only money you can afford to lose, keep copy trading as one part of your overall portfolio, and start smaller until a strategy behaves the way its history suggested.

Spread your allocation across providers who trade differently from each other. Copying several who trade the same instrument the same way gives you one position held in several accounts, not diversification.

Tradin supplies the technology that replicates trades. It does not manage money, advise on it, recommend providers or strategies, or guarantee outcomes. Who you copy, how much you allocate, and when you unsubscribe are all yours.