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It's great that the technology is clever, and the site looks so good, but what about profits? How much will I make?

We all want some cold hard facts. When you copytrade, you're choosing to automatically copy the trades of another person. Now, obviously, all people are different and make different choice and decisions.

Visit my profile to see my stats and profits A really important thing to understand is that when you're talking about trading, they always show each trader's results in percentages.

It's because we can't see how much actual cash each person is trading with, but it doesn't matter - we see how effective they are at trading through viewing their percentages.

The amount of money we copy them with is the other part of the story You see, the percentage Trader A made was the same in both instances.

It's a very simple idea, but unless you're familiar with it, it takes a little getting used to. These are the real experts in navigating through global markets.

He is actually my favorite trader on eToro because his statistics show that he has made a profit for every single month for the past 3 years.

His style is different from Olivier, which results to annual returns that are quite big. The story is true for the other traders featured above.

This is another measure of the risk involved. Weekly Drawdown : This value indicates the highest measured loss within a week over the observed period.

Again, the lower the value, the lower the risk is. Winnings Weeks : The percentage of weeks closed with a profit for a certain time period.

Win Ratio : This is the number of trades with profit divided by the total number of trades. Gain : This is the income including unrealized gains or losses calculated as a percentage.

Number of Trades : Here you can search for traders who have completed a minimum number of trades in the period.

The higher the number of trades is, the more meaningful are the other analyzed values. Trade Duration : Here you can set how long the average holding time should be at least.

The scale ranges from one hour to 30 days. Exposure : Here you can search for traders investing a certain amount of their total assets.

On the other hand, the profits in relation to capital allocated might be very low. In addition, you should have a look at the portfolio and on the trading history before copying a trader.

In the portfolio you will see what types of trades that person performs, divided into the categories foreign exchange, commodities and indices.

An in the trading history you can see the last executed trades. Important: In the history you can also see if the person has also copied trades from other people.

You do have to consider this in your risk management. You can look for this in their Portfolio tab and see the open dates under each individual position See image above.

If there are several losing positions with old dates that are still open with large Stops that is not a good sign. But even this is not always practical.

A good copy trade is often a long-term investment. Some traders let copies run for months, or even years. One very effective solution is to set a Copy Stop-Loss whenever you open a copy trade.

If the Popular Investor who you are copying suddenly begins to lose money, you will be protected against unacceptable losses. The Copy Stop-Loss will automatically close the copy trade at whatever point you choose.

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