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Copy a trader with $100

Choosing someone worth copying, the settings that keep it small, and how to stop.

Following with money copies a trader’s trades into your account, sized to your allocation. With $100 the numbers are small, and the choices still matter.

1. Choose someone worth copying

  1. Open Top traders by score, not by size.
  2. Prefer a high share of winning days, a small drawdown and many days of record over a big month.
  3. Open their page: what they hold now, at what leverage, and their recent trades.
A trader's page with the record, score and positions
Read the record before following.

2. Set the follow small

  1. Follow with money, allocation $100.
  2. Leverage cap 3x: nothing copied goes past $300 in total.
  3. Markets: stocks only, if that is why you chose them.
  4. Leave “copy their open positions now” off to start with their next trade.
  5. Approve the away key and the fee once, then Start following.
The follow dialog with allocation, leverage cap and markets
The follow dialog.

3. Watch it, stop it

Traders, Following lists what is copied, the fills and the fee. Stop at any time, with or without closing what was copied.

Copying a trader copies their risk. Their past results are no guide to what comes next.