I initially wanted to help friends who trade with small funds based on my trading experience, but instead I ended up dragging them into a pit. My own position sizing was appropriate, and I executed stop-losses cleanly and efficiently, so my account barely stayed balanced. But the problem is—those 10U players following my trades ended up losing 40%.
This is outrageous. The same strategy, the same entry point, how could there be such a difference? I later realized that many copy trading systems simply do not consider the risk-bearing capacity differences based on fund size. Large traders might have a stop-loss of only 3%, but retail traders copying trades, due to smaller capital scales, face higher proportions of costs like fees and slippage, which amplifies their actual losses.
What’s even more painful is that the system’s support for risk management is really insufficient. It doesn’t dynamically adjust leverage based on user fund size, lacks automatic warning mechanisms, let alone those unreliable copy multiples settings. A capital-preserving strategy becomes a capital killer when used by others.
I want everyone to make money together, but this situation has gotten so bad that I need to seriously think about how to fix it.
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TokenToaster
· 7h ago
This is the inside man of copy trading. The trading fees and slippage directly eat up retail investors' profits.
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AirdropBlackHole
· 19h ago
Uh, that's why I never follow trades—fees and slippage will kill you.
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AirdropNinja
· 12-27 05:54
This is the common problem with copy trading: the fees and slippage really eat up retail investors' profits.
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SnapshotLaborer
· 12-27 05:49
This is the original sin of copy trading—small funds simply can't withstand the bloodshed caused by transaction fees.
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GweiWatcher
· 12-27 05:45
This copy trading system is really a trap; the fees and slippage are directly amplified.
I initially wanted to help friends who trade with small funds based on my trading experience, but instead I ended up dragging them into a pit. My own position sizing was appropriate, and I executed stop-losses cleanly and efficiently, so my account barely stayed balanced. But the problem is—those 10U players following my trades ended up losing 40%.
This is outrageous. The same strategy, the same entry point, how could there be such a difference? I later realized that many copy trading systems simply do not consider the risk-bearing capacity differences based on fund size. Large traders might have a stop-loss of only 3%, but retail traders copying trades, due to smaller capital scales, face higher proportions of costs like fees and slippage, which amplifies their actual losses.
What’s even more painful is that the system’s support for risk management is really insufficient. It doesn’t dynamically adjust leverage based on user fund size, lacks automatic warning mechanisms, let alone those unreliable copy multiples settings. A capital-preserving strategy becomes a capital killer when used by others.
I want everyone to make money together, but this situation has gotten so bad that I need to seriously think about how to fix it.